Case Studies Region: Northeast

In the five years Eric H. Mattson has been director of facilities at Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, New Jersey, he’s guided an impressive array of facilities and capital improvement projects. Mattson has overseen replacing MRIs, CTs, seven boilers (including four needed to sterilize medical equipment), three roofs covering 20,000 square […]

Eric Williams once used laboratory glassware as part of his daily work as a research associate at Wilmington Pharmatech. Now, he’s helping ensure lab glassware made at the Corning Pharmaceutical Glass in Vineland, New Jersey, doesn’t break when it’s shipped to customers. Williams, the plant facilities supervisor, is overseeing parking lot and road upgrades that […]

Over the past 27 years, Edgar Choi has helped guide construction of some of the most ambitious projects in the industry, including the $2 billion Palazzo at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas that was completed in 2008. But after living in Las Vegas for 15 years, Choi returned to the East Coast in 2015 […]

When Edward Merwick started working at UPMC Chautauqua, his to-do list had over 300 items. Now, almost two years later, everything is checked off. Doors have been replaced, cracks have been repaired and paint has been touched up. Nothing in the hospital has been overlooked. Merwick, the facilities manager, isn’t in the clear yet, though. […]

For Eric Brigante, the adage “without hard work nothing grows but weeds,” sparks memories of his childhood. As early as five years old, Brigante was working full time on his family’s vegetable farm in Vermont, where he spent many a long summer day learning the importance of building honest relationships—ones built on mutual integrity. What’s […]

To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of the retail industry’s death have been exaggerated. Perhaps even greatly exaggerated, according to the construction director of a company that’s bringing new life to tired properties from the mid-Atlantic states into New England. “Retail has always been a dynamic subject,” Eric Kelly tells Blueprint in February from Paramount Realty […]

If he ever tells a former faculty member at his alma mater, “I told you so,” it’ll probably be with good humor. That’s just how it is with Edward SanClemente. But time has attested to his foresight as a Wentworth Institute of Technology architectural student during the 1980s. For it was at the prestigious technical […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every industry, from sports and entertainment to health care and hospitality. It’s had a profound impact on education and construction, the two areas where Erik Backus makes his mark. Backus is the head of the construction engineering management program at Clarkson University—his alma mater—where he’s responsible for planning all coursework […]

As far as Victor A. Mirontschuk is concerned, it’s one thing to draw up fanciful designs with nouveau buildings and all the latest trends from “Architectural Record”—which tend to end up behind a frame, in a portfolio, or delegated to a drawer. It’s altogether different to craft buildings that exceed a client’s specifications while satisfying […]

It might be one of the unintended consequences of the relaxation of marijuana laws, if not the outright legalization in some states, with New York soon likely to be among them. “With pot being legalized in so many places, the drug cartels are turning to heroin and fentanyl,” says Scott Burman, the president of the […]