Stalco Const. and McClave complete SCOPE headquarters

General contractor Stalco Construction, Inc., architect/engineer McClave Engineering P.C., and construction manager McClave Construction Management completed the expansion and complete interior renovation of the 10,000 s/f headquarters of SCOPE Education Services. SCOPE is a not-for-profit, private organization that provides education-related programs to children, parents, community members and professional educators in public and private schools throughout Long Island. Joseph Del Rosso, executive director of SCOPE Education Services, said, "The new headquarters offices will allow SCOPE to expand education support services for the Long Island community and provide home for our growing staff of educators, child care professionals, and school management consultants." The project encompassed demolition of pre-existing interiors, structural reinforcement in selected areas, and construction of new offices within a two-story building that serves as SCOPE's headquarters. The new headquarters features an entrance lobby and reception, business and administrative offices for after-school programs, bathrooms, and mailroom on the first floor. The second floor houses three executive offices, an open office space with 16 workstations, and bathrooms. According to Stalco vice president of operations Kevin Dunathan, the project's challenges included construction activities taking place in an occupied building. "In order to accommodate the client's request for uninterrupted operations during the construction, Stalco performed the renovation in three phases," he said. "The phasing schedule allowed SCOPE employees to work in the areas that were either already renovated or awaiting renovation, while construction continued in other sections of the building," said McClave project manager Brian McClave. The construction team, which included Stalco superintendent Michael Sweeney and McClave project manager Bill Spadafora, developed a detailed staging and logistical plan that ensured the continuity of SCOPE's operations while maintaining the project's schedule. Stalco erected temporary walls in order to isolate areas under construction and coordinated installation of mechanical and plumbing systems with the phased schedule of interior work. Each completed area allowed the client's employees to perform work without interruptions. The renovated offices feature suspended acoustical ceilings, drywall divider walls, broadloom carpet, VCT tiles, porcelain tile flooring, and 2x2 lay-in luminescent lighting fixtures. Building systems work encompassed modifications to the HVAC systems and new voice/data systems and wiring. Headquartered in Islandia, NY, with a regional office in New York City, Stalco Construction, Inc. is a full-service, turn-key general contracting and construction management firm active on Long Island and in the Greater New York area. Established in 1992, the firm builds commercial and institutional facilities for office, retail, educational, healthcare, governmental, cultural, and religious 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 exceeds $80 million. Stalco's current and recent work includes the $7.3-million Battery Park City Community Center and $9.2-million Battery Park Pier A renovation in Manhattan; the $1.4-million Home Fair store at the Atlas Park Mall in Glendale, NY; Ultra Diamonds stores in Riverhead, NY; the on-call CM contract for the 778,000-square-foot CA, Inc. Global Headquarters in Islandia, NY; the $11.3-million renovation of the landmarked Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, NY, one of the largest and oldest high schools in the country; the $1.2-million Dental Hygiene Laboratory and Knapp Hall at SUNY College in Farmingdale, NY; the $30-million expansion and renovation program for Three Village Central School District in Suffolk County; the $8.3-million, 200,000-square-foot, four-building Oyster Bay High School and James Vernon School campus in Oyster Bay, NY; the Hicksville Fire Department Fire Station 2; and the $2.7-million Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Administrative Building in Coram, NY. McClave Engineering P.C. James G. McClave P.E. founded McClave Engineering Services in 1963. The company was incorporated as McClave Engineering P.C. - a full service architectural and engineering firm - in 1997. Today, McClave Engineering has grown into a multi-discipline consulting engineering firm, which provides innovative engineering services for projects from concept to completion. The firm's resources and design experience allow it to provide creative solutions for a variety of projects in both the private and public sectors. McClave's services include mechanical, electrical, plumbing, environmental, structural and life safety system engineering; architecture and interior design; project and construction management; code compliance and permitting assistance; facilities maintenance, inspections and commissioning; energy audits; utilities and infrastructure planning; mission critical and UPS systems engineering; and telecommunications and audio/visual systems design. The firm's projects include building infrastructure consulting and design for the 2.5-million-square-foot AOL-Time Warner Center and the 565,000-square-foot 625 Madison Avenue office tower in Manhattan; US Airways Terminal Building boiler and chiller replacement at the LaGuardia Airport; $142-million, 163,000-square-foot Smithtown Central School District expansion and renovation program in Smithtown, NY; NYSERDA technical assistance program for Pratt Institute's Higgins Hall building in Brooklyn, NY; and numerous other commercial, educational, and public projects throughout the Tri-state area. ***