Lotte World Tower Featured on Cover of CTBUH Journal
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The 555-m (1,820-ft), 123-story
Lotte World Tower
in Seoul, South Korea, currently the fifth tallest building in the world, was featured on the cover of
CTBUH Journal 2018 Issue I
. LERA led the structural design of the landmark tower, which features an innovative structural system consisting of long-span spandrels with clear spans up to 24.5 m (80 ft) between concrete mega-columns, in combination with a series of outriggers and belt trusses. KPF was the architect.
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Photo © 2017 Elizabeth Felicella Photography
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Brooklyn Bridge Boathouse Wins AIA NY Honor Award
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The Brooklyn Bridge Park Public Boathouse was recently named among the Architecture Honor Award recipients for the
2018 AIA NY Design Awards
. Located at Pier 5 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, LERA was the structural engineer for both the boathouse and an adjacent maintenance and operations building. The architect was Architecture Research Office. The park architect is Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.The
AIA NY Awards Gala
will take place on April 20th.
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Temple University Library Tops Out
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2017 was a big year for the
Temple University Library
in Philadelphia, PA. After construction got moving in January, the structure topped out not longer after in December, paving the way for a late 2018 completion. The new 225,000-sf
block-long library will feature a 3-story domed-atrium with clear spans of up to 100 ft, green roofs and a large front arch that cantilevers off of the building. The structural system includes long-span structural steel trusses and steel framing. Snohetta/ Stantec JV is the architect.
Photos © 2017-2018 Betsy Manning
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4 World Trade Center Named Finalist for ULI Awards
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4 World Trade Center
was named one of two finalists for Excellence in Office Development by the Urban Land Institute New York Chapter. The design architect was Maki & Associates; the executive architect was Adamson Associates.
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Learn How the CUNY ASRC Came Together in New Short Film
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The new
Advanced Science Research Center
, located on CUNY's City College campus in Manhattan, is an incredibly complex, state-of-the-art academic and research facility, the flagship for CUNY's "Decade of the Sciences" initiative. A
new short film produced by Kohn Pedersen Fox
, the design architect, tells the story of the intimate collaboration between architects, engineers, scientists and leaders that was crucial to the ASRC's success. The architect of record is Flad Architects.
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Lodha World One Tower Named Top Ten Interesting Project
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In an article profiling the top ten "amazing feats of engineering" around the world, Interesting Engineering ranked the
Lodha World One
tower #4 on their list, calling it "one of the most beautiful buildings in India." Pei Cobb Freed is the architect.
Rendering courtesy of Pei Cobb Freed.
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New Photos of TCS Indore Campus
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New photos show construction nearing completion for the
TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) Indore Campus
, located in the Special Economic Zone of Indore, India. Designed to achieve a LEED Gold rating, the office complex contains a series of 3- to 7-story buildings totaling 1.2 million sf, which include an executive business center, a library, an auditorium and other shared facilities, such as cafeterias, utility buildings and gate complexes.The architect is SNK.
LERA is providing complete structural design services for the campus buildings and its feature structures.
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Kew Gardens Hills Library Wins AIA NY and MASterworks Awards
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SUNY New Paltz Engineering Innovation Hub Breaks Ground
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The
Engineering Innovation Hub
(EIH) at SUNY New Paltz, a new 19,500-sf, 2-story home for the university’s mechanical engineering program,
broke ground in November
. LERA is the structural engineer for the $14 million academic/research facility and business incubator, which will contain several research labs, a 1,900-sf teaching lab, a state-of-the-art 3D print prototyping lab, a 1,200-sf computer lab and labs for the Hudson Valley Advanced Manufacturing Center (HVAMC), as well as offices, mechanical and electrical rooms, classrooms, a 300-sf conference room and collaborative and lounge spaces. The architect is Urbahn Architects.
Renderings courtesy of Urbahn Architects.
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15 Hudson Yards
, a new 88-story luxury condominium tower in Manhattan's fastest growing district, recently topped out at its full architectural height of 914 ft (279 m). Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group, LERA provided structural engineering peer review services for the soaring tower.
Photo © 2018 Related-Oxford
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Bitexco Financial Tower Featured in ArchDaily
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ArchDaily recently ran a profile on the 68-story
Bitexco Financial Tower
, located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. LERA's innovative structural design of the lotus-flower-shaped office building included a cantilevering helipad that extends a full 25 m (82 ft) from the tower.
The design architect was Carlos Zapata Studio; the associate architect was AREP Ville.
Photo courtesy of Bitexco.
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Lotte World Tower Named Finalist in 2018 CTBUH Awards
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The tower was also featured in CNN's recent breakdown of the tallest buildings in 2017, which is "
the most geographically diverse year to date" and the "fourth consecutive year that the world's record total [of skyscrapers completed] has been surpassed." The architect was Kohn Pedersen Fox.
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Shanghai World Financial Center Named Finalist in 2018 CTBUH Awards
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LERA first performed an alternative structural design for a contractor of this 1,509-ft (460-m) tall building in 1997. When the developer, Mori Building Company, elected to construct an even taller building at 1,614 ft (492 m) on the existing foundations, with 16% more floor area, others were unable to provide a design to match their ambition. LERA, however, developed a new structural system that decreased the amount of steel and concrete and provided enhanced reliability and robustness, all while speeding up construction and reducing costs in both structural and non-structural systems.
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Tianjin CTF Finance Centre Tops Out, Nearing Completion
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The 530-m (1,740-ft), 96-story
Tianjin CTF Finance Centre
in Tianjin, China topped out in December 2017 and is set for completion later this year. The architect is SOM. LERA provided four-stage peer review for both the tower and the
podium
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Photos © NWD
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The Broad Wins 2018 AIA Institute Honor Award
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) named
The Broad
in Los Angeles, CA one of 17 recipients of the
2018 AIA Institute Honor Awards
, the profession's highest honor. Selected from over 500 buildings submissions worldwide, t
he 3-story, 120,000-sf museum is home to nearly 2,000 works of art. The architect was Diller Scofidio + Renfro in association with Gensler.
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Supertall Jean Nouvel Tower Tops Out at 53 West 53rd St
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53W53rd
, a new luxury residential tower situated on the southern edge of New York's Central Park, recently topped out, confirming its supertall status at 1,050 ft. Ateliers Jean Nouvel is the design architect. The building contains a mixed-use program that includes gallery space, condominiums and a restaurant.
LERA provided peer review services for this project.
Photo courtesy of GrissJr/Wikipedia.
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Construction of 300-m Shenzhen OCT Tower Progresses
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Construction is well underway for the 300-m (984-ft)
Shenzhen OCT Tower
, located in Overseas Chinese Town in Shenzhen, China. The 65-story office tower features a 5,000-sm (53,820-sf) top floor club and 20,000 sm (215,300 sf) of retail space spread across the podium and basement. KPF is the architect.
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Mega-Tall PNB 118 to House New Park Hyatt Hotel on Top 17 Floors
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PNB 118
, a new mega-tall 118-story tower and mixed-use development under construction in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will house a new Park Hyatt Hotel on its top 17 floors, the luxury hotel chain's third location in Asia after Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, South Korea.
LERA is the structural engineer for the tower, in associated with Robert Bird Group. We are providing concept phase through design development phase services, followed by peer review and select CA services. Fender Katsalidis Architects is the architect.
Rising to more than 600 m (1,900 ft) in height, t
he tower's faceted design highlights its structural pathways, resulting in a pattern of triangular shapes reminiscent of those found in traditional Malaysian arts and crafts.
Rendering courtesy of Fender Katsalidis Architects.
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Check out the "Engineered Art" Behind Hudson Park's Light Tower!
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Joseph Yamin, former Associate published an article in the November 2017 issue of
Civil+Structural Engineer
, titled "
Engineered Art
," on the 'artful' engineering that went into the design of the
Hudson Park Light Tower
, a
50-ft-tall, free-standing steel structure, 3 ft in diameter, composed of 52 1/8-in-thick vertical plates equally spaced along the circumference.
LERA provided the structural design for this and many other structures throughout
Hudson Park & Boulevard
, including the adjacent café, playgrounds, fountains, seating areas and underground mechanical vaults. Toshiko Mori is the park architect; Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates is the landscape architect; James Carpenter Design Associates designed the art installation.
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Bottom photo © Johnson Screens.
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LERA's Mumbai team visits the site in December.
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Construction Progresses at Crescent Bay, Parel
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LERA is the structural engineer for
Crescent Bay, Parel
, a new 6-tower residential complex in Mumbai, India ranging from 52 to 62 stories in height. Construction is well underway for the 3.9 million-sf development, which features a jogging track 300 m (984 ft) above ground. The architect is Callison.
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Congrats to Our Promoted Staff!
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LERA is pleased to announce our promoted staff for 2018!
LERA New York
Associate Partner
Associate
Ksenia Tretiakova, P.E.
Yue Zhao, P.E.
LERA Mumbai
Senior Associate
Gokul Kamath
Raunak Mangal
Raju Vurugonda
Associate
Pushparaj Parab
LERA Shanghai
Associate
Frank Chen
Pictured left to right, top to bottom:
Pat Hopple, Yue Zhao, Jason Stone, Ksenia Tretiakova (New York); Gokul Kamath, Raunak Mangal, Raju Vurugonda, Renuka Ranwadkar, Pushparaj Parab (Mumbai); Frank Chen (Shanghai).
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Ksenia Tretiakova Named 2018 ENR-NY Top Young Professional and BWAF Emerging Leader
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Ksenia Tretiakova, Associate was chosen by ENR-NY as one of their
Top Young Professionals for 2018
, a highly competitive honor that recognizes
up-and-coming leaders in the AEC industry under the age of 40 based in New York and New Jersey. Ksenia was also elected to the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
Emerging Leaders Program for 2018
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Fadi Asmar Named SMPS-NY Member of the Month for March
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Fadi Asmar, Marketing Coordinator was named
SMPS-NY Member of the Month for March
. Responsible for leading the graphic design of LERA's marketing collateral, as well as the development of proposals, Fadi has played a crucial a role in the campaigns that led to LERA winning the People's Choice Award at the
2017 SMPYS-NY Liberty Awards
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Nayan Trivedi Interviewed for Architecture and Interiors India
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"The tall building market in India has noticeably changed in recent years," he explained, "partly due to the developing economy, with a shift towards utilizing structural steel and/or high-strength concrete and rebar composites instead of conventional concrete construction."
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Carrie Villani Featured in NYREJ 2017 Year in Review Spotlight & Serves as Judge for 2018 New York Construction Awards
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Carrie Villani, Director of Marketing was featured in the New York Real Estate Journal's
2017 Year in Review Spotlight
. She was posed the question, "What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement of 2017?"
Carrie will also be serving on the jury for the
2018 New York Construction Awards
, announced at the New York Build Expo at the Javits Center on March 19th. She will be part of a
panel of judges
selecting the awards for Technological Innovation of the Year, Marketing Initiative of the Year, Regeneration Project of the Year, Architectural Design of the Year, Women in Construction Award and the New York Build Excellence Award.
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Antonio Rodriguez Serves on Jury for City of Dreams Pavilion 2018
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Antonio Rodriguez, Senior Associate served on the jury for the
2018 City of Dreams Pavilion
competition, an annual event run by FIGMENT NYC. The winning entry,
Oculi
by Austin + Mergold in collaboration with Maria Park (Cornell) and consulting engineers Chris Earls (Cornell) and Scott Hughes (Silman), will be on display for the 2018 summer season on Governors Island in New York City.
Rendering © 2018 Austin + Mergold.
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Elizabeth Moss and Ksenia Tretiakova Attend Women's History Month Leadership Reception
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Elizabeth and Ksenia have both served in key roles on a number of our historic preservation projects, such as the
Soldiers' and Sailor's Memorial Monument
restoration in Riverside Park and The Women's Building Condition Assessment in Manhattan.
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Ksenia poses in historic Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the Mayor of New York City.
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LERA your MWBE partner, celebrates its diverse team
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LERA is committed to diversity in our industry and is proud to be a Women Business Enterprise and a Minority Business Enterprise. (WMBE)
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Our Hong Kong Office Has Moved!
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LERA's Hong Kong office recently moved to a larger space in order to accommodate our growing team. Please note that our new address and contact information in Hong Kong is as follows:
Suite 1101, 11/F
135 Bonham Strand Trade Centre
135 Bonham Strand
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
P: +852 3705 5310
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Benjamin Cornelius to Speak at Risk Management Event
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Benjamin Cornelius, Partner
will speak on risk management and forensic engineering at the
CASE Risk Management Convocation
in Fort Worth, TX on April 20th, part of the 2018 ASCE
Structures Congress
. First, he will moderate a discussion with Kriton Pantelidis, Esq. of Welby, Brady & Greenblatt LLP titled "Managing Design Professionals’ Risk in the Design and Construction of Property Line Building Structures," followed by his own presentation, "Construction Dispute Resolution through Forensic Engineering."
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Sami Matar to Speak at 2018 ASCE Structures Congress
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LERA is Proud to Support the 2018 ACEC NY EEA Awards
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LERA is proud to support ACEC NY with a full patron table at the 38th
Engineering Excellence Awards
Gala at the New York City Hilton Midtown on April 7th. Several of LERA's projects were named among the
award winners
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Diamond Award - Structural Systems
Platinum Award - Structural Systems
Diamond Award - Building/Technology Systems
Silver Award - Industrial and Manufacturing Processes and Facilities
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Antonio Rodriguez to Speak on Panel at ENR FutureTech 2018
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Antonio Rodriguez, Senior Associate will participate on the panel for "Home-Grown Tech: Nurturing from Within" at
ENR FutureTech 2018
on June 5th in San Francisco, CA.
Antonio has been spearheading LERA's foray into Virtual Reality, helping to develop
IMMERSIFY
, a VR-based design and collaboration tool, and teaching other firms in the AEC industry how to implement VR into their workflow.
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Come Visit Us at the TECH+ Expo!
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LERA will be sponsoring, exhibiting and presenting at the
TECH+ Expo
in New York City on May 22nd.
Antonio Rodriguez, Senior Associate will speak about the rising influence of virtual reality on the AEC industry. Antonio has led the launch of
IMMERSIFY
, a VR software platform that lets you design architecture and engineering projects live in VR, streamline your workflow and enhance project coordination.
Learn more about the software and its capabilities here.
Be sure to stop by our booth to try
IMMERSIFY
for yourself!
Pictured right:
Antonio guides a user through a VR demo session at last year's TECH+ Expo.
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LERA Sponsors NYBC Healthcare Committee Meeting
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LERA sponsored the
New York Building Congress Healthcare Committee Meeting
on March 13th, which featured a panel discussion and Q&A on construction costs in New York's healthcare industry. The panel included guest speakers from Memorial Sloan Kettering, HOK and Turner Construction.
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IMMERSIFY Launch Covered by New York Real Estate Journal
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Key features of IMMERSIFY:
- Live multi-user collaboration from anywhere in the world
- VR model interaction: hide and move objects, take measurements, scale the model, and much more
- Use it with or without special VR equipment
- Access Revit parameters while in VR
- Add 3D content from custom object libraries, and draw and annotate in 3D
- Add tags and capture images, video and audio
- Automatically document every session and save all user actions
- Import user actions and added content back into original Revit and Rhino models
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Watch multiple users collaborate remotely in the same VR session using IMMERSIFY.
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Raju Vurugonda Lectures on Benefits of High Strength Concrete
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In September, Raju Vurugonda, Associate gave a lecture, titled "Benefits of High Strength Concrete in Tall and Short Buildings," as part of a one-day technical conference on "recent developments in durability, international standards and its relevance to the Indian condition" organized by Ambuja Cements Limited in collaboration with ACC Limited and Holcim (India) Private Limited. Over 100 engineers, contractors, developers and concrete suppliers were in attendance.
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LERA+ Publishes Research Paper on Origami Fold Patterns
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In collaboration with researchers at Sapienza University in Italy,
LERA+
embarked on a research project that explored the
digital simulation of origami fold patterns
and the relationship between fold pattern geometry and the structural behavior of folded plate structures derived from these patterns.
After presenting the research at the 2016 Architecture in Play conference in Lisbon, Portugal, the results were recently published in
The Nexus Network Journal for Studies in Architecture and Mathematics
in a research paper titled "
Algorithmic Design and Analysis of Architectural Origami
." Mia Tsiamis, BIM Specialist and Alfonso Oliva, Associate co-authored the paper, along with Michele Calvano of Sapienza University.
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LERA Ranks #2 on Tallest Buildings of 2017 List
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LERA Wins 'Best Original Design' at 25th Anniversary of Canstruction New York
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LERA won
Best Original Design
, the top prize at Canstruction NY 2017, for our entry titled "
A Rising Tide
." Canstruction NY is an annual charitable design competition where teams build larger-than-life sculptures made entirely from unopened cans of food, which are then donated to City Harvest.
Our gravity-defying design was featured in multiple news and media outlets, including:
Pictured:
our winning sculpture (top); our volunteers pause for a quick team photo midway through construction (bottom).
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LERA Engineers Help to Build Storage Facility in Rwanda
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Ethan Cotton, Associate and Evram Dawd, Design Engineer, jointly featured as our current "
Engineers of the Moment
," both recently traveled to Rubaya, Rwanda to aid in the oversight of the construction of a maize storage facility, part of the Engineers Without Borders (EWB) New York Chapter's
Rubaya Program
. The storage facility will provide a boon to the local farming community, offering much needed infrastructure to make the harvesting of corn more efficient. Both Ethan and Evram have dedicated countless hours of their free time to design the facility's structure, and are now facing the challenge of construction on a remote site with very limited resources.
Pictured:
Evram & Ethan in the NY office before their trip (top); workers pour the column footings (bottom).
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ENGAGEMENTS + HONORS + ACTIVITIES
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Daniel Sesil, Partner lectured on high-rise construction to Tulane University students on February 17th.
Raju Vurugonda, Associate lectured at the Ambuja Cements Limited one-day conference in Sep 2017.
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LERA Consulting Structural Engineers
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