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THE NEW YORK CITY BASED STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FIRM OF GILSANZ MURRAY STEFICEK ANNOUNCES PROMOTIONS FOR 2008!

Ken Oen, PE, 34, has been promoted to Associate.  He holds a Master of Engineering in Structural Engineering from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University.  Prior to joining the firm in 1998, he was a structural engineer at Tectonic Engineering in Orange County, NY.  Oen brings over 11 years experience in working as a structural engineer.
 

David E. Hoy, PE, 51, has joined GMS as an Associate.  Prior to joining GMS, Hoy operated his own structural engineering consulting firm for seven years.  Hoy’s more than twenty years of experience as a structural engineer includes the design of new commercial, institutional and residential buildings, investigations and design of repairs and modifications to a wide variety of structural systems and materials, and historical restoration.  Hoy holds a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BA in Art from State University College of New York at Buffalo.  He is an Allied Professional member of the Central New Jersey AIA chapter, and a member of the Association for Preservation Technology, the Masonry Society, the American Institute of Steel Construction, and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
 

Jill Hrubecky, PE, 34, has been promoted to Associate.  She holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Cornell University.  Prior to joining the firm in 1999, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, West Africa.  She brings over 9 years of experience in working as a structural engineer.

Mario Gutierrez, PE, 29, has been promoted to Associate and is a part of our Building Envelope Consulting group. He holds a Master of Science in Structural Engineering from the University of California Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico. Prior to joining the firm in 2004, he was a Project Engineer at Curtain Wall Design and Consulting, Inc. in Dallas, TX. Gutierrez brings over 7 years experience in working as a structural engineer.
 

On October 5, 2006 Gilsanz Murray Steficek celebrated their 15 year anniversary in the Rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The partners would like to thank our friends who helped commemorate this special event. The link to the left will lead you to photographs taken over the course of the evening. We hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed your company.

Gilsanz Murray Steficek is delighted to announce the following 2006 promotions.  We congratulate and thank them for their hard work and dedication.

Associate Partners:

• Victoria Arbitrio, PE
• Joseph Basel, PE
• Tele Gonzalez
• Jonathan Hernandez, PE
• Susanne Mackiw, AIA

Associates:

• David Chlebus, PE
• Cathy Huang, PE
• Michael Lo, PE, LEED™

• David Sharp

Project Engineer:

• Jill Hrubecky, PE
   

Newark Office:
Farhana Shuneeta

Los Angeles Office:
Joaquin Barba

GMS IN THE MEDIA

• “Top Design Firm” -- New York Construction, October, 2004
• “Making the Designer’s Vision a Reality” -- Real Estate Weekly, September 19, 2004
• “Best Structural Engineering Firm to Work for Contest” -- Structural Engineer Magazine, June, 2004.
• “Lessons of 9/11 Shape an Office Tower" -- New York Times, February, 2004
• “Structure Key to ‘Floating’ Plateau of Grass in California” -- Civil Engineering, February 2004
• “An expert within the industry asks: Are you prepared for an emergency?” -- New York Real Estate Journal, January, 2004
• “Time Warner Center”, Best of 2003 Awards, Project of the Year -- New York Construction, December, 2003
• “300 Madison Avenue”, Best of 2003 Awards -- Award of Merit: Office -- New York Construction, December, 2003
• “For Gilsanz Murray Steficek it wasn’t so much the times as the people” -- Real Estate Weekly, November, 2003
• “Best Structural Engineering Firm to Work for Contest" -- Structural Engineer Magazine, June, 2003
• “Record Houses 2003” -- Architectural Record, April 2003
• “CIB Special Recognition Award 2003 to SEAoNY” -- Concrete Industry Board, Winter 2003
• “Long Spans, Long Jumps: Steel Solves Multi-Purpose Design (Suffolk County Community College)” -- Metalworks, October, 2002
• “Higher Strength Steel Saves 10% of Required Material” -- New York Construction News, September, 2002
• “Vast Detail on Fall of Towers May be Sealed in Court Filings” -- New York Times, September, 2002
• “9/11 Prompts New Caution in Skyscraper Design” -- New York Times , September, 2002 
• “House Backs Federal Panel to Study Building Disaster” -- New York Times, September, 2002
• “Task Force Mulls Building Code Changes Because of Sept. 11” -- The Associated Press, September, 2002
• “NYC Mulls Post-9/11 Building Codes, by Sara Kugler” -- The Associated Press, August, 2002
• “Environment, Energy and Transportation Program - Recommendations Made for Improving New York City Building Code for High Rises” -- National Council of State Legislators, August, 2002
• “A Midtown Skyscraper Quietly Adds Armor : The Citigroup Center” -- New York Times, August, 2002
• “The Peacemakers (Center for Community Peacemaking)” -- Contract Magazine, August, 2002 
• “Building Mega Structures, Post 9-11” - SHPE -- The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, August, 2002
• ”Higher Strength Steel Saves 10% of Required Material (300 Madison, NY, NY)” -- New York Construction News, July, 2002
• ”Facts, Figures, Forensics: Probing for Clues in Tons of Scrap” -- American Metal Market, July, 2002
• “330 Jay Street” -- New York Construction News, June, 2002
• “Brooklyn Courthouse Supported On A New Foundation Type (330 Jay Street, NY, NY)” -- New York Construction News, June, 2002
• “Body & Soul - The Ross School/Ross Institute” -- Interior Design, May, 2002
• “A mystery of 9/11: What Made "No 7" Fall?” -- The Philadelphia Inquirer, May, 2002
• “430 Park Avenue Renovation Creates Class A Office Building” -- New York Construction News, February, 2002
• “A Search for Clues In Towers' Collapse” -- New York Times - February, 2002
• “World Trade Center Building Performance Study: Data Collection, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations” -- Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration of the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- Book, 2002
• “Women at Work: Heroines of Ground Zero toil as equals alongside men” -- Newsday, October, 2001
• “Terminal Wellness (Hoboken Terminal)” -- Building Design & Construction, September, 2001 
• “NY New; Weinstein Hall at NYU” -- Contract, March, 2001
• Thomas Phifer and Partners - Taghkanic House - Architecture, April 1999

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