MDM receives ACEC-NY 2008 Gold Engineering Excellence Award

MDM P.C. Consulting Engineers (MDM), a CSA Group Company, recently received the ACEC New York 2008 Gold Engineering Excellence Award. The American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC-NY) granted the award for the New York City Dept. of Sanitation (DSNY) Brooklyn Community Districts 1 and 4 vehicle garage maintenance and office facilities. "We are honored by the recognition awarded to MDM Consulting Engineers by ACEC-NY. Our aim in designing mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and safety systems for the DSNY garage facilities was to provide the sanitation personnel with healthy and safe workplace," said MDM principal Mariano Molina. "MDM has served the New York City Department of Sanitation as an engineering and design consultant for 30 years and we look forward to continuing this relationship by providing innovative and economical engineering solutions." MDM served as Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Protection Engineering, Design, and Construction Services Consultant. The 235,000 s/f project is located at 137-157 Varick Ave. in Brooklyn. Two buildings that comprise the project are situated along a common service road and house sanitation vehicle garages and maintenance facilities for the Brooklyn Community Districts 1 and 4, as well as the DSNY Brooklyn borough administrative offices. These buildings also accommodate employee facilities, a salt storage shed, and a parking facility. Dattner Architects served as the architect for the complex. MDM, PC. Consulting Engineers, a CSA Group company, offers complete mechanical, electrical, plumbing and technology engineering services for industrial, commercial, institutional, public, residential, and recreational projects. Founded in 1978, MDM has grown to its present staff of approximately 70 engineers, technical personnel, and support staff. The firm has offices in New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey. MDM is recognized both in the United States and internationally for engineering excellence. The firm applies a rigorous Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) Program to all design, engineering, and construction projects. Established in 1956 and headquartered in Miami, FL, CSA Group is one of the top consulting, environmental, architectural, engineering, planning, and construction project and program management firms in the United States and internationally. CSA is the largest Hispanic-owned engineering, procurement, and construction company in the nation. In addition to Miami, the firm's more than 500 employees, including 125 licensed professional engineers and architects, are based in regional offices located in Chicago; New York City; Jersey City; Philadelphia; Harrisburg; Washington, D.C.; San Juan, P.R.; and Panama City, Panama. CSA's project portfolio features some of the most prominent engineering undertakings in recent history, including the on-going $5.25-billion expansion of the Panama Canal, for which the company serves as a part of the CH2M HILL Project Management team. The firm's other recent projects include the 110-acre, $370-million Puerto Rico Convention Center District on Isla Grande in Puerto Rico; the $110-million Port of Miami improvement program in Miami, FL; the Mercedita Airport Terminal Building modernization in Ponce, Puerto Rico; the Philadelphia Museum of Art infrastructure upgrades in Philadelphia, PA; the new Florida International School of Architecture in Miami, FL; the $138-million Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, PA; and a nationwide water and sewer infrastructure reconstruction program in Honduras.