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Managing Principal & Structural Engineering Practice Co-Leader
New York
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Managing Principal & New York Metropolitan Region Co-Leader
New York
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Julie
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Senior Principal & Sustainability and Resilience Practice Leader
New York
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Schneider
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New York
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Preparing a Construction Site Ahead of a Major Hurricane
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Proper preparation can mitigate risks, protect valuable assets and ensure the safety of workers and surrounding communities.
We outline a comprehensive guide to securing your construction site ahead of a hurricane, drawing on our expertise in structural integrity and disaster resilience.
Athletics Break Ground on Las Vegas MLB Ballpark
June 26, 2025
Major League Baseball comes to Vegas in a domed stadium with views of the Strip through one of the world’s largest cable-net glass facades.
2025 Hurricane Season Preparation
June 01, 2025
Once again NOAA is predicting above-normal activity for the Atlantic hurricane season. We’ll delve into these predictions and offer some solutions on how best to prepare commercial and residential properties for before, during and after the storm.
Construction Underway On Karuruma Trail Bridge
May 22, 2025
Thornton Tomasetti volunteers are heading to Rwanda to help complete a 60-meter suspended bridge that will provide safe, year-round access for over 8,600 residents in two rural communities.
Mahan Named To ENR's National Top 20 Under 40
May 22, 2025
Congratulations to Associate Jennifer Mahan on being named one of Engineering News-Record’s National Top 20 Under 40 for 2025.
Richard Tomasetti Participates In Skyscraper Museum Panel
March 21, 2025
From the turn-of-the-century Ingalls Building in Cincinnati to the 1-kilometer Jeddah Tower now rising in Saudi Arabia, reinforced concrete has paved the way for architectural and engineering innovations.
Facility Executive: A Nearly Century Old Building Prepares For Its Next 100 Years
February 27, 2025
A retrofit program involving the conversion of the nearly 100-year-old 345 Hudson’s mechanical systems with an innovative all-electric network and a novel system design at the adjacent 555 Greenwich enable both buildings to use less energy than traditional buildings.
Roger Weld Joins The Transportation Team
January 23, 2025
Roger, who has more than 30 years of experience in the planning and design of efficient and sustainable infrastructure and public spaces, recently joined our Transportation practice in New York.
Bob Smilowitz Recognized With ASCE Award
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Congratulations to Bob Smilowitz, who is the latest recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Ernest E. Howard Award. The award recognizes an ASCE member for their contributions in advancing the field of structural engineering.
Design Revealed for New Metropolitan Museum Wing
December 11, 2024
The five-story, 126,000-square-foot wing will preserve the building’s historical footprint and honor the museum’s architectural legacy while addressing sustainability, accessibility and infrastructure improvements.
Revitalization Efforts For Two New York City Classics
November 20, 2024
There’s always room for improvement, even for landmark structures. The latest issue of the Steel Institute of New York’s Metals in Construction magazine looks at revitalization projects at two New York City classics.
Here's How, Embodied Carbon: 12 Minutes on Climate Action in Engineering
November 12, 2024
With the building sector contributing up to 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, designers have a responsibility to act to combat the negative impacts of climate change.
Here's How, Embodied Carbon: 13 Minutes on Ethical Decarbonization
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The decisions designers make have a wide-reaching impact, including across supply chains, on the project's construction team and its end users.
Here's How, Embodied Carbon: 15 Minutes on The Structural Engineer’s Influence
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Here's How, Embodied Carbon: 12 Minutes on Extreme Carbon Reduction: A Case Study
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The curtain has gone up on a new, permanent home for Hudson Valley Shakespeare.
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End of the Lull, Plus Storm-Tracking Resources
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We experienced a brief lull in Atlantic hurricane activity in August, but it didn’t last long, as evidenced by the flooding brought by Hurricane Francine, and now Florida is bracing for Helene.
Here's How, Embodied Carbon: 11 Minutes on Embodied Carbon Reduction for Bridges
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Infrastructure growth is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, but new policies and engineering innovation are leading to notable reductions.
Our Latest Corporate Responsibility Report
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Our corporate responsibility report is our annual communication of the firm's corporate responsibility targets and of progress towards our ESG (environmental, social and governance) goals.
Midpoint Update: 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season
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Now that we’ve reached the midpoint of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season with five named storms, let’s take a look at the impacts of a few of the most recent.
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Here's How, Embodied Carbon: 9 Minutes on Timber, Nature's Low Carbon Material
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As the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season begins, we look back at 2023 and share some tips for evaluating building safety ahead of what’s predicted to be a historically busy year.
Here's How, Embodied Carbon: 12 Minutes on the ABCs of EPDs
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A life cycle assessment is key to evaluating the full environmental impact of a building or product, but what does it entail?
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While last Friday’s 4.8 magnitude earthquake left many in the metro New York area shaken, it had a negligible effect on the city’s skyscrapers.
Climate Action: Nature-Based Solutions
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Utilizing systems like green space and natural floodplains, nature-based solutions improve biodiversity, occupant health and aesthetics.
Fast Company: This New Manhattan Building Is Designed To Flood
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Our Resilience team helped develop a flood resilience strategy for the Columbia University Philip & Cheryl Milstein Family Tennis Center.
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While fossil fuels continue to account for more than half of U.S. power production, CCUS can serve as a bridge technology helping us move toward decarbonization.
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Climate risk assessments are an important early step in identifying site-specific climate hazards and how those hazards may change over the lifespan of a building.
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Thornton Tomasetti’s façade engineers were part of a team that developed a concept for a terra-cotta and moss screen for curtain wall systems designed with help from AI.
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Resilience Master Planning goes beyond designing a single building, bridge, or infrastructure system and seeks to foster entire communities at different scales.
Operational and Embodied Carbon
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Emergency Preparedness
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Emergency planning and preparedness may often come as an afterthought, but it is crucial to take a proactive approach that incorporates operations and maintenance considerations into early project stages.
Energy Supply and Renewables & Batteries
October 04, 2023
Renewables or renewable energy sources are key to the energy transition, not only because they reduce our dependency on finite and high-GHG-emitting sources (i.e., fossil fuels), but also because they leverage clean, naturally derived sources that replenish at a higher rate than they are consumed.
Corporate Climate Action
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We aspire to be one of the most sustainable firms, both in the way we design our projects and in how we operate as a responsible business.
Climate Action – Engineers and Scientists Have the Solution
September 20, 2023
A two-pronged approach of decarbonization and resilience can help combat climate change while dealing with today’s shocks and stresses more effectively.
ASCE: Hands-On Experience Is Key To Historic Preservation Engineering
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Civil engineers who work on historic preservation projects need to understand more about the so-called archaic materials they might be dealing with and other aspects unique to preservation work.
Squarzini Discusses Decarbonizing The Built Environment At United Nations Roundtable
July 27, 2023
This past Tuesday, a select group of AEC leaders, including Thornton Tomasetti Co-CEO Mike Squarzini, joined government representatives, policymakers and United Nations officials for a roundtable discussion on decarbonizing the built environment at the UN headquarters in New York City.
Roundtable: Decarbonizing Today for Tomorrow's World, and...
June 22, 2023
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Play Ball!
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It’s spring and that means baseball is back! At ballparks everywhere ground crews are prepping the turf and chalking the baselines as coaches finalize their starting lineups.
BD&C: Why Lithium-Ion Batteries Pose Fire Safety Concerns for Buildings
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Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) have become the dominant technology in phones, laptops, scooters, electric bikes, electric vehicles, as well as large-scale battery energy storage facilities. As such, it is important to systematically consider their impact on fire safety inside buildings, especially since electrification is a critical part of the effort to limit climate change.
Retrofit: Ingenuity and Technology Breathe New Life into Historic Terra-cotta Half Columns
November 18, 2022
Cited for its “wonderful demonstrations of the use of current technology in preservation,” the restoration of New York’s historic Merchants’ Exchange Building earned retrofit Magazine's Metamorphosis Awards’ top prize in the Exterior Restoration category.
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Growing threats to operations create pressure and opportunities for managers to improve their organizations’ resilience.
Arecibo Collapse Forensic Report Released
August 11, 2022
It took just seconds for the 900-ton instrument platform at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to come crashing down into the 305-meter-wide dish, destroying the iconic radio telescope.
Thornton Tomasetti, FSD Active Sign Strategic Collaborative Agreement
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The relationship formalizes Thornton Tomasetti’s long-term interest in and support for FSDA’s CALM®FLOOR active mass damping (AMD) technology. CALM®FLOOR is a highly innovative product for controlling building floor vibrations and enabling more sustainable structures.
Back to the Great Indoors
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As people start settling into our new headquarters, they can do so with confidence, knowing that the space carries the International WELL Building Institute’s WELL Health-Safety Rating.
2020 Showcase: Responding to the Pandemic
May 09, 2021
When COVID-19 cases surged in the spring of 2020, and again last winter, our engineers, scientists and programmers lent a hand. Here are a few of the ways we helped our clients and communities meet some immediate challenges.
Stepping Closer to our Carbon Reduction Goals
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Our offices saw a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions, due in part to the global pandemic.
Taylor Devices, Inc. & Thornton Tomasetti Team Up on Global Launch of Pumpkin™ Mounts
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The revolutionary shock and vibration product offers significant improvements over standard mounts in the protection of critical equipment.
Thornton Tomasetti Launches T2D2, an AI Solution Company to Detect, Classify and Monitor Deterioration
September 29, 2020
T2D2 SaaS offering uses deep learning and computer vision built on decades of building renewal, investigation and Preservation Experience
2019 Sustainability Showcase: 100 Flatbush Avenue
July 27, 2020
As part of the most sustainable block in Brooklyn, 100 Flatbush Avenue will be the first all-electric tower in New York City.
2019 Green Offices Update
July 27, 2020
In 2019, 87 employees – representing all but our smallest offices – served as local corporate responsibility advocates.
Supporting the COVID-19 Response Effort
May 11, 2020
As communities around the world battle the coronavirus pandemic, our teams are lending a hand.
Historic Cast Iron Fire Watchtower Restoration
October 30, 2019
Thornton Tomasetti has completed the restoration and reconstruction of the Harlem Fire Watchtower in Marcus Garvey Park, which was unveiled to the public by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation on October 26th.
Keeping Homes & People Safe In Puerto Rico
July 01, 2019
Recovering from the devastation and later repercussions of Hurricanes Irma and Maria is still an enormous challenge for both the people and the economy of Puerto Rico.
NYT: Log Cabins? No, These Wooden Buildings Are High-Rises
January 01, 2019
“Developers have not used wood for much other than houses since the horse-and-buggy days. But the knotty building material is making a comeback.”