Antonio Rodriguez, P.E., in collaboration with JB&B, recently wrote an article on how designers are using IMMERSIFY, a virtual reality (VR)-based software developed at LERA that works in tandem with Revit, Rhino and other 3D and BIM software, to transform the way that they design mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems. Read the original article here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-mep-systems-could-designed-vr-antonio-rodriguez/ Maura Candelaria, JB&B's Director of BIM, stated, "Virtual reality has allowed JB&B to distinguish itself from the competition while significantly enhancing its client services. With VR, we can ‘virtually’ inhabit the building before it’s even built, and anti
Congratulations to Ksenia Tretiakova, P.E., for being honored by ENR New York as a Top Young Professional. To read the article visit the ENR New York's 2018 Top Young Professionals page. http://bit.ly/2DK3bru Download a scanned copy of Ksenia's profile here. Ksenia was recently promoted to Associate at LERA and is the youngest professional on the esteemed list of award winners. We are so proud of your accomplishments Ksenia. Her passion for historic preservation led her to be involved in many of LERA's adaptive reuse and historic preservation projects, indulging the Women's Building, Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Monument, Coney Island Hospital, and Ephesus Church. Ksenia’s design experi
Congratulations Kew Gardens Hills Library team for winning an Architecture Merit Award at the AIA NY Design Awards, LERA was the structural engineer and Work Architecture Company (Work-ac) for this comprehensive renovation to the Queens Library Kew Gardens Hills branch, expanding the original 8,660-sf library building, built in 1966, by 3,000 sf. Improvements include new interiors, MEP upgrades, full ADA accessibility and a sloped green roof that reduces energy consumption and manages storm-water runoff, helping the building to achieve LEED Silver certification. The 1-story structure is clad in glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) panels cast in a curtain-like form of vertical folds. The G
LERA Mumbai headed to see the latest progress at the Crescent Bay project in Parel, Mumbai. This residential development is made of six towers ranging up to 62 stories. The entire development is over 3.9 million-sf. The project is looking great and the team is on trend for 2018 with Pantone's color of the year, Radiant Orchid with our vivid hard hats.
