The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Populous
March 11, 2021
By Tim Newcomb
Populous Principal Marc Klein and NCAA’s Director of Men’s Basketball LJ Wright spoke with reporter Tim Newcomb of Forbes for a feature on this year’s unique NCAA March Madness. This year, the tournament is more complex and unique than ever, with 7 competition courts. 4 team hotels. And 1 highly dialed-in convention center with 68 team rooms, 12 practice courts and 6 weight rooms. Read about the accuracy with which Populous and the NCAA have coordinated every last detail to keep the players and staff safe from COVID-19 and maintain the integrity of the event.
Avison Young
March 11, 2021
By Nicholas Rizzi
The Hellenic Classical Charter School inked a ground lease with the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church for an empty parking lot on Staten Island to build a new expansion to its campus. HCCS plans to build a new 36,000-square-foot building on the site that will host classrooms, a gym, a library, and an auditorium for third to eighth-grade students.
Avison Young’s Martin Cottingham, Michael Gottlieb and Patrick Steffens represented HCCS in the deal. Holy Trinity had no brokers.
EW Howell Construction Group
March/April 2021
The NYBG Enid Haput Conservatory restoration project is featured in the “Inspiration” column of the March/April issue of Retrofit. The “inspiration” section is the last page of the magazine, meant to leave readers inspired. The piece details the restoration elements and project teams.
Thornton Tomasetti
March 2021
By Steve Witkowski and Darren Hartman
At 1,401 feet tall, Manhattan’s One Vanderbilt is one of the tallest office buildings in the U.S. and sits above one of the busiest transit hubs in the world. So how was the project team able to complete the 77-story structure ahead of schedule and under budget? In this month’s cover story of American Institute of Steel Construction’s Modern Steel Construction magazine, Thornton Tomasetti Principal Steve Witkowski and Senior Principal Darren Hartman discuss the use of the firm’s Advanced Project Delivery™ services, including Tekla modeling and connection design, to accelerate the design, steel fabrication and erection processes.
View, Inc.
March 2, 2021
By Nate Berg
View, Inc. CBO Rahul Bammi talks with Fast Company about the company’s smart windows. The self-tinting technology eliminates the need for blinds and reduces lighting and HVAC use in buildings, generating 10% reductions in energy use annually. It also helps companies paying a premium for a higher floor enjoy their views instead of having it obscured by shades.
Populous
March 1, 2021
By Michael Smith
From designing her family home as a teen to showpiece creations at Baylor and Texas, Sherri Privitera is generating a new blueprint for project leadership. This SBJ article focuses on Privitera’s career as a top woman in sports design, and showcases testimonials from colleagues and athletic directors at colleges across the country.
Populous
March 1, 2021
By India Block
Architecture studio Populous has unveiled visuals of a multi-purpose arena in Toronto, Canada, designed to be able to host music concerts, plays and esports competitions. The 7,000-seat stadium will be completed in 2025, located in the Canadian National Exhibition Grounds. Renderings show a covered arena sheltered by a swooping roof that recalls the form of a turtle’s shell or a spaceship. Multiple stories are visible behind curved glass walls and an exterior deck projects from one end. Around the rim of the stadium roof, a wide band of screens forms a media facade.
Dottid, Darwin Home
February 26, 2021
By Alex Nicoll , Daniel Geiger , Libertina Brandt , Natasha Solo-Lyons , and Taylor Borden
Dottid and Darwin Homes are featured on INSIDER’s list of 31 hottest proptech startups. The authors surveyed a varied set of venture capitalists to select the winners. The startups focus on real-estate and construction technology and have the tools to thrive in a new climate marked by swings in where employees live and what offices are even for, as well as increased digital adoption by real-estate and construction professionals.
Thornton Tomasetti
February 25, 2021
By Badri Hiriyur, Ph.D.
Talk about a dynamic duo. Drones and computer vision systems are making façade inspections faster, more efficient and a whole lot safer. Vice President and Director of Artificial Intelligence Badri Hiriyur authors a thought leadership article in Facility Executive, about how self-learning software platforms, such as Thornton Tomasetti’s T2D2 can detect and classify building damage by analyzing drone imagery.