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Bergmann Associates names Giovenco president

Pietro Giovenco, Bergmann Associates, DPC Pietro Giovenco, Bergmann Associates, DPC

Rochester, NY Pietro Giovenco, PE, was recently named president of Bergmann Associates, DPC, a full service architectural and engineering firm with over 400 employees located in 10 offices throughout the United States. 

In his 27 years with the company, Giovenco last served as the firm’s COO. Giovenco started his career with the firm as a civil engineer after attending Rochester Institute of Technology.

Early in his career he demonstrated an ability to connect with people and lead multidiscipline teams on large and complex projects. At Bergmann Associates, Giovenco helped start the commercial business, providing full service design solutions to retailers and developers across the country.

During his tenure, he continued on to lead other various capabilities within the company that included land development, architecture, survey, planning, landscape architecture, GIS and entitlement. 

Giovenco earned an MBA from the Saunders Business School at RIT.

Giovenco’s experience and passion will help advance Bergmann’s vision of a client service-oriented company that continually invests in its most valuable resource … people.

Bergmann Associates is a progressive, forward-thinking architectural and engineering design firm with more than three decades of success providing multi-disciplinary services to clients throughout the United States and Canada. Headquartered in Rochester, NY, Bergmann has 10 U.S. offices and 400 professional and technical staff featuring talented architects, engineers, planners, interior designers, landscape architects, programmers, developers, surveyors and 3D design specialists.

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