Hanson joins MKDA as senior project manager

Christopher Hanson has joined the N.Y. office of MKDA as senior project manager and director of the firm's healthcare practice. He will manage project teams and provide oversight on an array of corporate interiors projects. "Christopher joins MKDA equipped with 15 years of experience, including 10 years of significant project management experience with some of New York's premier healthcare facilities," said MKDA president Michael Kleinberg. "We are very pleased that he will be leading our initiative to enter into this growth sector." Most recently, Hanson was a project leader at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he managed and directed multiple health care projects with budgets up to $25 million. Additionally, he was on a team that developed the hospital's new Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) and Interim Life Safety Measures (ILSM) for Healthcare Construction Programs. Prior to that, Hanson was a project manager at interior design firm Gertler Wente Kerbeykian Architects (GWK), where he managed commercial interior and healthcare projects. As the firm's technology installation specialist, Hanson oversaw the development of radiology clinics, catheterization laboratories, mammography suites, and a New York Presbyterian Hospital interventional neural radiology clinic featuring the first GE flat panel system to be installed in the U.S. Earlier in his career, he worked as a project manager and project architect at Highland Associates, a multi-disciplined architecture, engineering and interior design firm. "I look forward to assisting MKDA in securing business in this growing sector while also applying my expertise to the firm's corporate practice," said Hanson, whose clients have included New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New Song Church, Collegiate Church, Bell Canada, Telx, Chase Manhattan Bank, Guardian Life Insurance, Columbia Transmission Communications and Federated Department Stores, among others. Hanson has a bachelor of science degree in Architectural Technology from the New York Institute of Technology and an associate degree in Applied Science in Architectural Technology from the SUNY at Delhi. He also completed masters level course work in energy management at the New York Institute of Technology.