Engineering News-Record, New York Region Best Projects 2011
New York, N.Y.

Three Thornton Tomasetti projects won this year’s Engineering News-Record magazine’s New York Region Best Projects awards. We provided structural design for the CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pa., winner in the Sports/Entertainment category. The 720,000-sf home to the National Hockey League’s Pittsburgh Penguins opened in 2010 and is the first NHL and AFL (Arena Football League) arena to be LEED Gold certified. It also hosts basketball, concerts and various other events. Populous was the architect. Our renovation and office conversion of the IRS 30th Street Campus in Philadelphia, Pa. was a Renovation/Restoration winner. The project included a seismic assessment, removal of several interior bays to create a four-story atrium, design of building envelope blast reinforcing, a mechanical room addition at track level and preservation of the retail corridor, at the 900,000-sf building completed in 1935. Architect Bohlin Cywinski Jackson was the client. The mixed-use The Avenue (formerly known as Square 54) in Washington, D.C. won in the Retail/Mixed Use category. We provided structural design for the 1.4-million-sf, mixed-use development comprising two 10-story office structures with a shared structural glass entry atrium and two 12-story residential towers. It includes 50,000 sf of ground-level retail, below-grade parking that extends five levels beneath each of the buildings and a central underground loading dock below a landscaped courtyard. Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects was the design architect.