Syska acquisition will help budding health practice.As part of a strategic plan to strengthen its healthcare presence across the United States, the Syska Hennessy Group has acquired Caretsky & Associates Consulting Engineers. Founded in 1959, Caretsky, an award-winning consulting engineering firm, has provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and commissioning services from offices 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. and Houston, Texas. Clients include prominent architectural firms, hospitals and healthcare networks, corporations, governmental agencies and academic institutions. Some of the firm's recent major projects include Maimonides Medical Center The Maimonides Medical Center is non-profit academic medical center in Brooklyn, New York. History The institution was founded in 1911 as the New Utrecht Dispensary. , Montefiore Medical Center Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, New York, is the university hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The hospital, named after Moses Montefiore, is one of the 50 largest employers in New York State [1]. , New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the Medical Center, Queens Hospital, the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (nicknamed The Wild Center) is a natural history museum that opened July 4, 2006 in New York state's Adirondack Park. The Museum was designed by Hellmuth Obata + Kassabaum, the same firm that designed the National Air & Space Museum , and Union County College Union County College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Union County, New Jersey. As the oldest community college in New Jersey, Union County College has been serving both career-minded and transfer-oriented students since 1933. . "Caretsky has a 46-year history of innovation and technical excellence," commented John Magliano, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Syska Hennessy Group. "Their track record within the burgeoning healthcare design market and expanding presence in the Texas region dovetail with Syska Hennessy's strategic goals for continued growth within focused markets." Caretsky's managing partner, Bill Caretsky, has been named a senior vice president at Syska Hennessy Group and will be responsible for major health care projects, as well as the growth of the Houston market. Caretsky's partners, Jan Gasparec and Tim Krawetz, have also joined the firm. On the East Coast, Caretsky staff will become part of Syska's New York operations under the direction of G. Venkata Ramu, the Syska Hennessy Group regional director of healthcare. Caretsky's Houston operations will now operate as a regional office of Syska Hennessy, under the direction of Lance McKnight, a healthcare design expert who has managed Caretsky's Houston office since 2003. "The merger is a natural reinforcement of Syska's national healthcare practice," said Bill Scrantom, Syska Hennessy's national healthcare director. "We look forward to combining the respective strengths of our national healthcare teams, allowing us to better serve clients in Texas and throughout the Southwest." |
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