PB engineering powerhouse, Seymour S. Greenfield, dead at 84.Seymour S. Greenfield, former chairman of the board of Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), the 121-year-old international engineering firm based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , died on November 17 in Englewood Hospital, New Jersey. He was 84 and lived in Fort Lee, New Jersey Fort Lee is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 35,461. Fort Lee was formed by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 29, 1904, from the remaining portions of Ridgefield Township. . Greenfield, a native of Brooklyn who joined PB in 1947, officially retired in 1995, but continued to work at PB's New York headquarters several days a week until his death. During his career at PB he was a driving force of the firm--as an engineer, a manager, and an executive. Greenfield was named a partner at PB in 1964 and served as chairman of the board from 1982 to 1989. Following service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Greenfield was hired by PB as a project engineer on military bases in Newfoundland and Iceland being converted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for use by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), established under the North Atlantic Treaty (Apr. 4, 1949) by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. ). He went on to play a major role in PB's design of several hardened defense facilities, including NORAD NORAD abbr. North American Aerospace (formerly Air) Defense Command (North American Aerospace Defense Command A bi-national command of the US and Canada that provides aerospace surveillance, warning and assessment of aerospace attack, and maintains the sovereignty of US and Canadian airspace. Also called NORAD. ) in Colorado. He also served as principal-in-charge for engineering design of several planned nuclear waste repositories in the U.S., as well as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Texas and Louisiana. A mechanical engineer, Greenfield was responsible for building PB's capability in that field. He made a major contribution to mechanical design with his work on the ventilation system of San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit “BART” redirects here. For other uses of "BART" or "Bart", see Bart. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is a heavy rail public rapid-transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. (BART) system, and he was principal-in-charge for the development of PB's Subway Environment Simulation (SES) software for tunnel ventilation. He also directed PB's participation in a U.S. Department of Transportation-funded study that produced the first accepted handbook on ventilation, air conditioning and environmental design and standards for subways. Long active in the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), Greenfield served as president in 1977 of the worldwide organization and was one of the organization's seven Life Members. In 1981, he received the Engineering News-Record Award for Leadership in the AIE Industry. He was the March of Dimes
He was a 1943 graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of New York and a registered professional engineer in 10 states. He is survived by his wife, Judy, two children, and five grandchildren. |
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