Health and Wellness are Key Features in Office Design

Mancini Duffy's Center for Workplace Innovation contributes to NeoCon2014 Trends to Watch.  Click here to access the press release.

Fran Ferrone in the May National Real Estate Investor





Fran Ferrone, our Director of Workplace Innovation, has a new column in the May National Real Estate Investor. Titled "Give the People What They Want," the column addresses the ways that a responsive workplace can make good business sense. To access a PDF of the article, click here. (Click the following links to access her last two columns, "Benchmarking Is Only a Starting Point" and "Avoid Managing Change at Your Peril.")



Earlier this month, Ricardo Nabholz of Mancini•Duffy participated in a bike tour of some of New York City's most fascinating — and private — urban landscapes. Sponsored by FLOS and Contract Magazine, and organized by BDE, the tour visited the future SuperPier site, the National September 11 Memorial, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.




Ricardo on a catwalk at SuperPier, an ambitious project masterminded by YoungWoo & Associates that will redevelop New York City's long-disused Pier 57 into a 270,000-sf retail and entertainment complex.




SuperPier graffiti commemorating Pan Am, the airline that shut down in late 1991.




The SuperPier site, 70 feet underneath the Hudson River. Once developed, the site will have the only underwater real estate in New York City.




The reflecting pools of the National September 11 Memorial.




The Brooklyn Navy Yard was a site of shipbuilding for 150 years until it was decommissioned in 1966.




One of the rope cleats at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.




Today, the Brooklyn Navy Yards fall within a M3-1 zone, allowing the site to be used for things like gunpowder manufacture, meat processing, and liquor distillation.




Marc Agger, president of the Agger Fish Corporation, lead the tour through the Brooklyn Navy Yard site.


April 23, 2014: Director of Mancini•Duffy's Center for Workplace Innovation Fran Ferrone, and Project Designer Ricardo Nabholz, LEED AP shared a photo-op at Haworth's newly refreshed New York showroom at 125 Park Avenue in New York City.

Fran Ferrone in National Real Estate Investor



Fran Ferrone, our Director of Workplace Innovation, writes a monthly column for National Real Estate Investor about workplace topics that affect real estate decisions. We've put her first two columns online for your perusal. The first, "Benchmarking Is Only a Starting Point" covers the use of pilot projects as a way for large companies to test new workplace concepts; the second, "Avoid Managing Change at Your Peril,", discusses the benefits of a well-executed change management program. Keep watching this blog for her future columns.

Ted Hammer and Fran Ferrone Quoted in Crain's New York

 

Hey there. We're pleased to mention that President Ted Hammer and Director of Workplace Strategy Fran Ferrone were both quoted in a Crain's New York Business arti cle last week noting the evolution of New York City office spaces towards collaborative work environments. You can read the article by clicking on the following link: "Open office spaces create lofty goals".

Mancini•Duffy/TSC Wins 2012-2015 IDP Firm Award




We're thrilled to announce that Mancini•Duffy/TSC is one of eleven firms nationwide to receive the 2012-2015 Intern Development Program Firm Award.

Our firm especially values this award because it demonstrates our commitment to our interns by making their path to licensure an integral part of our firm’s culture – giving our clients a team of professionals “at the top of their game.”

The IDP is a joint effort of the American Institute of Architects and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. To read more about the award, visit the AIA’s website.

We owe a huge thanks to Cassandra Straub, Associate AIA, who assembled our application. 
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