Gillen promoted to project manager at Stalco Construction, Inc.

Stalco Construction, Inc. has promoted Amber Gillen to project manager. Gillen joined Stalco as an assistant project manager in 2012 and has since managed several significant healthcare and educational projects in the Greater New York area. These included the new $6.3-million MRI Suite at the Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook; the $1.9-million SUNY College of Optometry laboratories in Manhattan; and the $815,000 Nassau University Medical Center Catheterization Laboratory in East Meadow. "Amber is a crucial member of Stalco's healthcare construction practice and this promotion reflects her outstanding managerial capabilities and technical expertise," said Stalco principal Kevin Harney. "She will support our expanding medical construction services group, which has completed projects valued in excess of $30 million in the last year, as well as Stalco's educational construction group," Harney said. Gillen's responsibilities include complete project management in pre-construction, delivery, and close-out phases. She manages value engineering and constructability analysis, budgets, development of subcontractor bid packages, construction quality and schedules, and post-construction client support. As project manager, Gillen currently manages the $3-million, 38,000 s/f Nassau University Medical Center Primary Care Center in East Meadow, N.Y., and the $1.5-million MacArthur High School cafeteria renovation in Levittown. She had previously served as assistant director of hospital construction at the Stony Brook University Hospital and as a project manager and assistant project manager at Wright & Company and Racanelli Construction. She holds a dual bachelor of arts degree in sociology and education from SUNY Stony Brook University. Based in Manhattan and Islandia, NY, Stalco Construction is a full-service general contracting and construction management firm active in the Greater New York area and on Long Island. Building Design & Construction magazine ranks Stalco as the 43rd largest construction manager and the 93rd largest general contractor in the United States. ENR New York magazine ranked Stalco as the 52nd largest contractor in the NY/NJ/CT Tri-state area in 2014. Established in 1992, the firm builds commercial and institutional facilities for office, retail, educational, healthcare, governmental, entertainment, sports and worship clients. Stalco's personnel include professional engineers, architects, project managers, superintendents, and support staff. The value of the firm's on-going ground-up, interior, and capital improvement projects totals approximately $140 million. Stalco's affiliate, Stalco International Group, designs and erects custom engineered buildings for developers and architects of commercial, office, institutional, public, and industrial structures. Stalco works in a partnership with Varco Pruden Buildings, a division of BlueScope Buildings North America, a world leader of the pre-engineered buildings industry. Since the firm's inception, its leadership and employees have been involved in supporting the local community through responsible corporate citizenship and charity work. The company's principals, Kevin G. Harney and Alan Nahmias, co-founded Contractors For Kids (CFK), a not-for-profit organization supported by nearly 300 Long Island-based construction and real estate organizations. CFK provides assistance to children and their families impacted by health-related crisis. Stalco's current and recent work includes the $8.4 million Battery Park City Community Center and the $15 million restoration of the landmark Pier A in Manhattan; the $24 million renovation of the Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology in Queens, NY; the new, $24 million Emergency Department at the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx; the $16.5 million renovation and expansion of the Long Beach High School in Lido Beach, NY; the $1.4 million Home Fair store at the Atlas Park Mall in Queens NY; the Ultra Diamonds jewelry store in Riverhead, NY; the $11.3 million renovation of the landmarked Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, NY; the on-call Construction Management contract for the 780,000 s/f CA, Inc. Global Headquarters in Islandia, NY; and the $30 million expansion and renovation program for the Three Village Central School District in Suffolk County.