2 Lafayette Street

New York, NY

SERVICES PROVIDED

MEP Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering, Energy Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES

110,000SF office renovation for NYC agencies.

ARCHITECT

BKSK Architects

Two New York City divisions, the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) and the Department for the Aging (DFTA), moved into newly renovated offices at 2 Lafayette Street. The 110,000SF space stretches across seven floors of the historic city-owned Court Square Building. OLA designed the MEP systems, which included new HVAC systems, new electrical equipment, new fire alarm system, and new plumbing equipment. LEED Gold.

NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center

Auburn, NY

SERVICES PROVIDED

MEP Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES

New $10M exhibition space.

ARCHITECT

nARCHITECTS

7,500SF Heritage Center is centrally positioned in Auburn’s South Street Historic District, and includes a series of four one-story volumes that connect to create intimate courtyards. The interiors of the exhibit spaces were kept simple with no ceilings exposing the Douglas fir timber beams and structural glulam decking.

NYS Parks Taconic Regional Office

Staatsburg, NY

SERVICES PROVIDED

Commissioning

PROJECT FEATURES

30,000SF gut rehabilitation project.

ARCHITECT

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation

Formerly a school building built in the early 1900s underwent a 30,000SF gut rehabilitation—earning it the moniker of being the first public building in New York State to achieve a LEED Platinum rating for New Construction. OLA also performed monitoring and verification services to review the utility improvements and compare them to the original energy model.

NYPD Tow Pound Operations Building

Brooklyn, NY

SERVICES PROVIDED

MEP Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering, Energy Engineering, Commissioning

PROJECT FEATURES

New 11,000SF operations building.

ARCHITECT

Spacesmith

Located within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the new Operations Building houses the administrative offices for the Brooklyn Traffic Agency and also serves as the redemption center for all vehicles towed in Brooklyn. The first level is a dedicated redemption center and the second floor houses offices and administrative functions. LEED Gold.

Village of Great Neck Library

Great Neck, NY

SERVICES PROVIDED

MEP Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES

$10M renovation of the 45,000SF library.

ARCHITECT

KG+D Architects

Complete renovation of its existing structure to better support current services and emerging programming and technology. Renovations to this three-level building included a new water source heat pump HVAC system that reuses the existing cooling tower and incorporates new condensing boilers in the water loop, new lighting, fire alarm, electrical, and plumbing systems as well as the addition of a new fire sprinkler system.

Town of Purchase Fire House

Purchase, NY

SERVICES PROVIDED

MEP Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES

Fire house renovations & additions.

ARCHITECT

Mitchell Associates Architects

Purchase Fire House embarked on renovations to its facility originally constructed in 1938; the project also included a 2-story addition that houses three bays with firematic support and personnel spaces—plus physical training and exercise areas. The fire house’s mezzanine provides room for storage, sleeping quarters, and essential training.

City of White Plains Public Library

White Plains, NY

SERVICES PROVIDED

MEP Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES

Creation of a 29,000SF teen center.

ARCHITECT

Bermello Ajamil & Partners

White Plains Public Library renovated its first floor to create a new teen center called The Edge. The expansive teen space features a social area with a big-screen television, computer and study area, and a digital media lab. OLA’s MEP design included new lighting, lighting controls, upgrade to digital controls, and reconfiguration of the existing building HVAC system.

Town of Scarsdale Ambulance Facility

Scarsdale, NY

SERVICES PROVIDED

MEP Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES

New multi-million dollar ambulance facility.

ARCHITECT

Lothrop Associates

OLA provided MEP engineering and fire protection engineering for the new 9,250SF facility, which includes two apparatus bays with vehicle exhaust systems, administrative offices, day room, sleeping quarters, locker rooms, and a fitness center.

City of Hoboken Northwest Resiliency Park

Hoboken, NJ

SERVICES PROVIDED

MEP Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES

6-acre green space providing recreation areas.

ARCHITECT

nARCHITECTS

Spanning six acres, the City of Hoboken is transforming an asphalt covered site into the City’s largest vegetated park. Northwest Resiliency Park is one of Hoboken’s designated green spaces providing recreation and public space—and is a fundamental part of the City’s resiliency strategy, combining green infrastructure and innovative stormwater management measures to mitigate flooding.

Battery Park Maintenance Facility

New York, NY

SERVICES PROVIDED

MEP Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES

Maintenance facility mechanical upgrades.

ARCHITECT

N/A

42,000SF fit-out of a maintenance facility, which is a LEED CI Platinum building. The facility’s first three floors house operations/maintenance and the 4th floor is office space. Mechanical systems were designed to operate with two open column geothermal wells to provide heating and cooling with a boiler to act as a backup heat source in the winter.