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LaBella Associates is growing yet again after completing the acquisition of Harmony Architectural Associates, PC, of Syracuse. Harmony has more than 45 years of experience over a wide range of commercial and residential architectural projects, including design-build. It’s the fifth ...

With a combined 77 years of service at Passero Associates, the three members of the executive committee — two newcomers, one holdover — are poised to maintain a 48-year tradition of excellence at the firm. But new CEO Andrew Holesko, new ...

Rochester-based architecture, engineering and planning firm Bergmann has launched an in-demand practice to assist highly specialized industries. The Science, Technology & Industry practice (STI) combines Bergmann’s experience in engineering design services for manufacturing and research clients with recently added planning ...

To assist the growing number of organizations allowed to reopen work facilities, Bergmann has formed a multidisciplinary design team that can create safe and flexible spaces. The design experts will work with clients to reconfigure business space not only to ...

SWBR has been recognized for its work in helping create DePaul Upper Falls Square Apartments, an affordable housing community that spans two city blocks in Rochester. The 143,000-square-foot project received the 2020 Excelsior Awards Honor Award from the New York ...

As the construction and real estate industries reopen, local leaders say lessons they learned while trying to do business during the stay-at-home orders are changing how their businesses will operate going forward. Lee Sommerman, vice president with LeChase Construction Services ...

The development team that bought the stately, sprawling Aqueduct Building intends to create a diverse, multi-use riverfront campus that becomes a gateway to downtown Rochester’s west side. Peter Landers, Rob Sands and Jim Costanza — partners in A50EB LLC, aka ...

Four locally based design firms, along with four other companies with offices in Rochester, have landed on the Engineer News-Record Top 500 List for 2020. LaBella ranked highest among Rochester-based firms at No. 173 while Bergmann was the fastest year-over-year ...

PathStone’s planned senior housing development in the former Sears building at the old mall in Irondequoit will be named by town residents through a contest. The project will create 157 units for seniors, helping the town of Irondequoit meet a ...

F.F. Thompson Hospital, located in Canandaigua, has moved its intensive care unit to a new, state-of-the-art 12-bed facility. Previously, the hospital’s ICU was in a seven-bed unit. The new Sands-Constellation Intensive Care Unit opened ahead of schedule. UR Medicine Thompson ...

Richard Pospula has been named president of the Architectural Foundation of Greater Rochester (AFGR). Pospula recently retired from Bergmann. He is also treasurer of the AFGR-associated organization, American Institute of Architects Rochester chapter. Other appointments to the AFGR board include ...

Passero Associates has opened an office in Buffalo, where the engineering and architecture firm has worked on numerous projects in the past. The office is at 737 Delaware Ave., Suite 100A, and will enable the Rochester-based firm to continue its ...

Ned Tursunovic remembers his job interview a decade ago with Jeff Morrell, the CEO of Morrell Builders. At the time, Morrell Builders and Pride Mark Homes Inc. were entering a joint venture to create a design studio, and they needed ...

When Ryan Colvin looks to the future and maps out his firm’s objectives for the quarter or the year, there is no dry-eraser board highlighting earnings projections that must be met. As the president at MRB Group, he isn’t issuing ...

When it comes to LEED-certified green construction, only Colorado and Illinois rank higher than New York. The rankings were compiled by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and are based on the number of LEED-certified square feet per person on ...