History of Syska Hennessy Group

Office of the Future, Dubai, UAE

First fully-functional 3D printed building in the world.

Metropolis

Located in Los Angeles, this is the largest mixed-use development on the U.S. West Coast.

St. Luke’s Hospital

Syska is part of this four-party Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) to accelerate design & construction of a series of revitalization projects for St Luke’s entire campus. First healthcare IPD in New York City.

Raleigh, NC Office Opens

B. Grogan and J. Dove Federal Building

Designed to the rigorous GSA requirement of constructing a “100-year building” with low environment impact, Syska engineered systems that are redundant and resilient for a new 20-acre campus in south Florida.

San Diego International Airport

First LEED Platinum certified airport terminal in the world.

Dubai, UAE Office Opens

Shanghai, China Office Opens

The Pentagon Memorial

Selected from a national competition, the final design called for 184 Memorial Units representing those that lost their lives at the site. Each Memorial Unit is a cantilevered bench, a lighted pool of flowing water, and a permanent tribute to each victim in one single element. Syska engineers coordinated with the landscape architect and designers to insure that the water supply and return system, as well as the power supply, would support each unit. An underground operations control center was provided to house these services.

2000 Avenue of the Stars

This energy efficient 21st-century office, dining, cultural and retail center is one of the few structures with a dedicated central plant in LA’s west side business districts. Our redesign reduced energy consumption by 16% & annual water consumption by 20%.

Chicago, IL Office Opens

Dulles International Airport

Syska successfully applied displacement ventilation technology at the Z Gates terminal at Dulles Airport in Virginia. These systems had grown in popularity in Europe, but were not yet widely used in U.S. buildings which are larger and have different cooling loads.

Richmond, VA Office Opens

Natural Resources Defense Council

Syska’s first LEED certified project was the Natural Resources Defense Council headquarters. 15,000 sf Class A office building, which achieved the highest score in the LEED program – Platinum.

Atlanta, GA Office Opens

Charlotte, NC Office Opens

Jacksonville, FL Office Opens

Dallas, TX Office Opens

The Pentagon Phoenix Project

Syska was direct-selected to participate in Project Phoenix, the fast track rebuilding of the damaged Wedges (totaling 450,000 sf) in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.  The project was completed on September 11, 2002.

Islip Federal Courthouse

Syska developed engineering solutions for the 870,000 sf federal courthouse, the country’s third largest courthouse & largest structure on Long Island, New York.

San Diego, CA Office Opens

Reagan Washington Nat’l Airport

Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority in Washington, D.C. opened the new North Terminal, the centerpiece of their $1 billion capital development program.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

NewYork-Presbyterian’s Greenberg Pavilion is an eleven story hospital built on a platform over the FDR drive in New York City. Syska provided many unique engineering solutions to overcome the lack of a basement including bringing utilities above ground.

U.S. Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground

Syska provided engineering design for a complex new 255,000 sf research facility in Maryland encompassing labs, offices, hazardous material and waste storage, industrial waste treatment and support areas.

Hamilton, NJ Office Opens

NBC

Syska was selected by NBC to prepare and implement a 12-year master plan to renovate their 1.2 million sf of corporate offices and production space at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Ellis Island Restoration

Syska is awarded the biggest renovation project in American history at the time, and tasked with technically advancing the engineering systems and infrastructure within the historic structure.

Smithsonian Museum Support Center

To support the Smithsonian’s mission of preservation, Syska designed a 350,000 sf support facility to store additional collections in Washington, DC.

Boston, MA Office Opens

Spaceship Earth, Epcot

Syska completes work on the Spaceship Earth attraction at World Disney World’s Epcot theme park in Orlando, Florida.

San Francisco, CA Office Opens

King Saud University

Syska, as part of a four firm consortium, is awarded the biggest Middle Eastern project, Kind Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Campus consists of approximately 12 million sf of academic & administrative buildings spreading across three sq miles.

Christian Science Church Center

The 670 ft by 110 ft reflecting pool, a prominent esthetic feature of the Christian Science Center’s Plaza in Boston, was used as a cooling tower that served the new, low-rise buildings. Syska’s design meet all the challenging requirements for reflecting pool including filtering, water color, and heating the water for use in winter.

Los Angeles, CA Office Opens

Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

At the time it opened, the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC was the largest all-electric buildings in the world.

Carlton Center

We designed the first application of a variable air volume system for the 3.5 million square foot mixed-use Carlton Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Madison Square Garden

Provided engineering services to the “World’s Most Famous Arena” in New York City.

New York World’s Fair

Syska provided electrical distribution for the site and engineering design for the entire 646 acre site in Queens which including 250 exhibitors and street and ornamental lighting.

Lighting Workshop Established

Syska establishes a lighting workshop. Today, the Architectural Lighting Design Group has dedicated designers in multiple offices.

Washington, D.C. Office Opens

Albany Mall

The firm was commissioned to work on its largest project to date–the Albany Mall which later became known as the Empire State Plaza.

Central Intelligence Agency

Syska designed the first prototype UPS system for the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

The firm designed what was then known as “the greatest attraction in New York’s history,” the Lincoln Center of Performing Arts, New York City.

New York Foundling Hospital

First project to receive New York City approval of a waste disposal system.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Syska Hennessy Group completed the renovation of MIT’s Aero/Astro Laboratory, Building 33 which is a five-story special projects building housing laboratories, classrooms, student workshop areas and a library. Engineering design included HVAC, auto-control electric power, lighting, fire alarms, fire suppression and accommodations for telephone/data for this unique space.

NYU Institute of Rehabilitation

New York University of Rehabilitation Medicine is the first project to use a diatomaceous air filter approved by the New York City Board of Health.  This project also validated the early use of radiant heating and cooling.

ES&A Bank

The English, Scottish and Australian Bank in Melbourne, Australia was the firm’s first International project.

LaGuardia Airport

Syska’s first aviation project, LaGuardia Airport Terminal was opened in 1939 and served international flights throughout the 1940s. In 1995 the terminal was designated a historic landmark.