The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Client
Thornton Tomasetti
Date
September 15, 2021
ENR Top 100 Green Design Firms and Contractors: Green Market Growth Stunted
By Emell D. Adolphus and Jonathan Keller
summary
Gunnar Hubbard, principal and sustainability practice leader at Thornton Tomasetti, is quoted in ENR as part of its Top 100 Green Design Firms and Contractors survey. Hubbard notes that focus on health and wellness has “…intensified significantly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic…” and “…building owners, especially in the office sector, are faced with a historic reset in the way tenants use their space.”
Client
Hines
Date
September 15, 2021
Hines Promotes Sarah Hawkins to CEO of US East Region
By Cathy Cunningham
summary
Hines has promoted Sarah Hawkins to CEO of its U.S. East Region, overseeing the developer’s activities in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Commercial Observer sat down for a Q&A with Sarah, talking about her new role, COVID’s effects and the most exciting project in the firm’s pipeline.
Client
Thornton Tomasetti
Date
September 14, 2021
Tech Symposium, New Scholarship Fund: On the Scene NY
summary
Engineering News-Record New York features Thornton Tomasetti’s recent AECtech Symposium & Hackathon in its “On the Scene” column. The July event studied innovations from the UK design and construction industry. The virtual event was hosted by Thornton Tomasetti’s CORE studio, Simply Rhino, Grimshaw Architects and KPF Architects.
Client
View, Inc.
Date
September 13, 2021
AI gives Fast + Epp building windows brains
summary
Global design firm Fast + Epp has installed smart window technology at its Vancouver office. Fast + Epp built its new headquarters with sustainability and employee health and wellness in mind. The four-story building’s design features a hybrid mass-timber and steel structural system with cross-laminated timber floor plates, stairwells and elevator cores. Fast + Epp included View Smart Windows to improve the building’s energy-efficiency, maximize usable floor space, and enhance the productivity and wellbeing of Fast + Epp employees.
Client
Waterton
Date
September 10, 2021
Chicago investor takes Dallas Design District apartments
By Steve Brown
summary
Alta Strand, one of Dallas’s largest rental communities at 400 units, was acquired by Waterton. The five-story project includes a resident lounge, two swimming pools, a fitness center, three outdoor courtyards and a club space. With the Design District purchase, Waterton now has 2,900 apartments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Waterton plans updates for some of the rental units, and the community is being renamed Abstract at Design District.
Client
Marx Realty
Date
September 7, 2021
Renovated Historic DC Office Building The Herald Nabs First Tenant
By Keith Loria
summary
Marx Realty’s The Herald, which recently underwent a $41 million renovation, has a new tenant. CGCN Group, a Washington, D.C.-based government affairs firm, signed an 8,000-SF lease at 114,000-SF office building in D.C. that opens on Sept. 22. Marx acquired the historic property in April 2020 and immediately set out to create a hospitality-infused transformation.
Client
View, Inc.
Date
September 6, 2021
View Smart Windows Make Long Island Office Debut
By Paul Bubny
summary
View Smart Windows have been installed at 410 Motor Pkwy,, Long Island’s first newly constructed speculative office in more than 12 years and the first to feature View Smart Windows. Developed by Aresco Management, the four-story, 35,000-square-foot mixed-use building is part of the new Long Island Innovation Park at Hauppauge, NY.
Client
Thornton Tomasetti
Date
September 1, 2021
Sound Control for Large Interior Spaces
By Mark Robins
summary
Jeremy Thorbahn, a project director at Thornton Tomasetti in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, contributes to an article in Metal Architecture which discusses the factors that should be taken into account to control sound waves when designing metal interiors and sound control/noise-proofing them.
Client
Standard Real Estate Investments
Date
September 1, 2021
Insider's view: What two former CBRE Global Investors are targeting with new investment firm, starting with Indianapolis deal
By Ashley Fahey
summary
Reporter Ashley Fahey conducts a Q&A with Standard Real Estate Investments co-founders Robert Jue and Jerome Nichols. The two have started the new firm to invest in what they call attainable housing. SREI formally launched this week with the closing of a majority equity investment in a 244-unit multifamily project in downtown Indianapolis. Standard Real Estate will develop the project in a joint venture with Indianapolis- based Arrow Street Development LLC.