The first project I worked on after graduating from college turned out to be the first piece of the WTC Masterplan.  How poetic and pure kismet it is that life lead me to venture into the construction side in 2018, back to the WTC site to play a part in completing its final piece, The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC), an innovative 135,000 SF cultural hub for the arts community comprised of three reconfigurable performance halls, 450-, 250-, and 99-person, which can be combined into several additional variations of vivid spaces for theater, dance, music, film, and opera performances.  Every stage of the project came with its own unique challenges, such as the merging of the PAC's superstructure with the already built below grade Port Authority structure.  Rather than a standard foundation, building loads were designed to transfer down to 7 existing supercolumns that were at seemingly random locations via full height perimeter belt trusses and 4-interior 2-story trusses, keeping to the column free requirement of the theater spaces.  Blast design and vibration & noise mitigation measures were implemented through the installation of strategically located acoustic joints and steel and rubber bearing pads.  There is so much more than meets the eye behind this translucent, book-matched insulated stone glass building that has pushed the design and construction envelope forward.  

I was involved on this job from its bid to close-out phase, managing steel, concrete, isolation pad, elevator and interior finishing trades, tracking LEED v4.1 through construction, packaging submissions for Port Authority & MTA approvals, establishing workflow and document control.