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Posted: June 21, 2016
2016 Women in Real Estate: Carrie Villani
Carrie Villani, Leslie E. Robertson AssociatesName: Carrie Villani
Title: Director of Marketing
Email: [email protected]
Years in real estate: 15
Company Name: Leslie E. Robertson Associates (LERA)
Year Founded: 1923
URL: www.lera.com
Telephone: 212-750-9000
Twitter @LERA_Engineers
What real estate associations or organizations are you a member of?
CREW New York, SMPS-NY, New York Building Congress, The Architectural League
What recent project or transaction are you most proud of?
In addition to the exemplary structural design services LERA is well-known for, I am also responsible for promoting the extended range of services we offer.
Over the last year I have spent a significant amount of time on LERA’s forensic engineering division, our services for attorneys and developers include investigations, litigation support services, expert testimony, and risk assessments. We are working on a number of exciting and confidential projects internationally, we also assist local building owners in New York and across the US.
I have also been proud to be involved in growing LERA’s adaptive reuse and historic preservation services. We have been awarded a number of significant projects including The Women’s Building assessment review which is transforming a former women’s prison into a community center for women using an all woman design and construction team. As a WMBE firm, we are especially excited to be involved.
LERA is making breakthroughs in technology that enable more efficient and complex building designs. Our engineers are doing brilliant things with optimization, parametric modeling and virtual reality. I have just registered an AIA CES course on Computational Design that LERA offers to architects and owners which explores these processes.
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