Corporate Projects
 
Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Data Center Facility Security Design
Various Locations
Consists of data center area and telecom support rooms throughout; Tier IV mission critical facility; each site includes a detached guardhouse or booth with a single point of vehicular access; security systems leverage in-house telecommunications and power infrastructure.
 
Financial Services / Financial Reporting Client Headquarters
New York, NY
Telecommunications design for all offices, cafeteria, meeting, training, and presentation rooms, a data center, and computer equipment rooms; audiovisual design for TV/Radio broadcast studio facilities, a multi-image conference and briefing room with computer graphics and video projection, speech reinforcement, remote control, custom lectern, and ties to a studio facility.
 
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
New York, NY
Designed a system of Free Optic Lasers to connect five separate offices temporarily relocated throughout Manhattan as a result of the collapse of the World Trade Center . Cosentini was awarded the 2002 NY Association of Consulting Engineers (NYACE) Gold Award of Excellence for this project.
 
Foote, Cone & Belding
New York, NY
Coordination of the incoming services; master planning; design of a complete technology infrastructure including LAN, WAN, voice systems, unified messaging; security system incorporating card key access, CCTV and digital recording; cabling infrastructure including a two-way video distribution system using standard CAT 5e cables; complete relocation and coordination support.
 
Sotheby’s, Inc.
New York, NY
PBX and voicemail systems, LAN systems, fax-back system, call recording system, data center relocation, voice, data and CATV infrastructures, new redundant incoming services, etc.; designed an archival recordable laser studio with custom console and copy camera; audiovisual design included state-of-the-art auction rooms.
 
JP Morgan Chase Midtown Headquarters at 277 Park Avenue
New York, NY
Designed telecommunications infrastructure; "Salt & Pepper" distribution to the desktop; CATV backbone to provide cable TV access for each trader’s desk; audiovisual control systems with Graphical User Interfaces in boardrooms; CCTV, access control and a turnstile system.
 
Ziff-Davis, Inc. Headquarters
New York ,NY
Designed state-of-the-art interactive conference rooms; custom multi-screen interactive lobby display, as well as reception areas offering interactive Internet while waiting; digital satellite downlinks feed testing labs; 1000 Megahertz bi-directional broadband cable TV system serves multiple users; combinable auditorium and assorted computer training and meeting rooms; digital-ready video recording suite with fiber optic live transmission to San Francisco; cabling infrastructure.


Hotels, Residential High-Rises & Mixed Use Projects
 
Time Warner Center at 10 Columbus Circle
New York, NY
Developed an overall technology business model; received the NY ACEC Diamond Award
 
Project Slava
Moscow, Russia
Complete technology infrastructure design (core and shell); security systems design for access control and intrusion detection systems, CCTV with LAN/WAN integration and digital video recording, briefcase/mail inspection systems, command center consoles and a parking lot drive-in/drive-out control system; audiovisual design included local audio/video systems in common areas and lobbies, a public address system and distributed clock system.
 
Multiple Residential Projects
New York, NY
Designed telecommunications infrastructure and security systems for over twenty residential high-rises in New York City. These include: 400 East 67th Street; 123 Washington Street; River Place II; 735 Avenue of the Americas; 46th Street and 8th Avenue; 45 Park Avenue; 86th Street and Lexington Avenue; 2628 Broadway; 245 West 99th Street; West End Avenue and West 70th Street; 40 Mercer Street - Broadway Grand; 18 West 48th Street; Park West Village 823 Park Avenue; 350 West 42nd Street; Avalon Chrystie Place; 15 Broad Street; 328 Spring Street and 124 Hudson Streetl
 
The Mark Hotel and Residences
New York, NY
Designed the technology infrastructure including wireless capability; security systems design and programming for audiovisual systems.
 
Salamander Inn
Middleburg, VA
Provided full master planning and design of the voice, data, boradcast and media distribution services and security systems for the entire site.
 
Four Seasons Hotel: Model Room of the Future
Various Locations throughout United States
Provided advanced audiovisual engineering, including the integration of Crestron and Panja technologies for this prototype applied at various hotels throughout the country.
 
Battery Wharf Hotel
Boston, MA
Provided telecommunications design of the cabling infrastructure, telephone system, and “packet-page” and a portable radio system; security design includes access control, access management, CCTV; audiovisual design included convention and meeting rooms.


Government / Transportation Projects

Security Command Center for the United States Capitol Hill Complex
Washington, DC
Responsibilities included space planning, interior design, and all display, control, and integrated electronic systems. Used photo-realistic, 3D CADD techniques and animated fly-throughs to design this facility for the police who are responsible for physical security of the Capitol ( including nuclear, biological and chemical warfare response as well as all local, municipal, and national emergencies).  A wide array of cameras, sensors, detectors, computers, and advanced systems were integrated into a state-of-the-art, fully digital, inter-agency command center facility.  
 
Kennedy Space Center - NASA Joint Communications Control Center
Cape Canaveral, FL
This facility integrates all radio communications, fire and life safety communications, access control, intrusion detection, emergency communications and multiple sub-systems.  Cosentini provided ergonomics engineering and human factors design, with 3D Renderings to visually depict our design.  Work included console design; space planning; display and sound systems engineering; Graphical User Interface touchscreen design to integrate different technical systems; engineering for electronics and systems.
 
Staten Island Ferry Terminals, Security Assessments and Recommendations
New York, NY
Assessments covered current physical security systems and procedures, and identified risks and vulnerabilities inherent within the operations and protocols; the Threat Analysis followed traditional SANDIA Laboratory guidelines. Our work included recommendations for improvements in the physical security systems as well as the operations and protocols to which the security staff abides.
 
Roosevelt Avenue Transit Station Complex
New York, NY
Systems designed for this new inter-modal terminal building include a public address system with “Sound Powered Telephone” technology for improved audio quality despite high background distortion. Also designed a new communications room (housing all equipment, including emergency phone systems).


Cultural Projects
 
Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao, Spain
Developed a telecommunications infrastructure to support high technology exhibits within this 200,000 square foot museum.
 
Carnival Center for the Performing Arts
Miami, Florida
Cabling infrastructure design; PBX switch for phone system; Local Area Network (LAN); paging system.
 
Museum of Jewish Heritage
New York, NY
Engineered this museums entire cabling infrastructure as well as it’s paging and voice systems.


Academic Projects

New Jersey Schools Development Authority (SDA) and the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE), Technology Guidelines Initiative
New Jersey
Delivering a set of strategic recommendations for updating Technology Guideline documents for both the SDA and DOE.  
 
Bentley College, Smith Academic Technology Center
Waltham, MA
Designed telecommunications infrastructure, as well as systems for the facility’s mock trading installation, computing and networking lab, distance education classroom as well as twenty-eight state-of-the-art classrooms wired to Bentley’s computing network, Virtual Lab application server, and the Internet.
 
Bernard M. Baruch College of The City University of New York
New York, NY
Designed the telecommunications infrastructure that connects the new complex to the existing campus; a new core network supporting gigabit Ethernet, videoconferencing and video over IP; redundant wireless links added to allow diversity and increase network bandwidth; and the design of CCTV and access control systems and article surveillance system.


Healthcare and Laboratory Projects
 
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Designed the complete telecommunications infrastructure for this cancer research laboratory as well as a wireless network (for cellular phone calls and  two-way radio communications) throughout a remote support laboratory facility.
 
Bellevue Hospital – Ambulatory Care Facility
New York, NY
Provided telecommunications planning and system integration for this new ambulatory center; designed integrated CCTV, access control monitoring systems, card access systems and a security console.
 
Bellevue Hospital – Office of the Chief Medical Examiner DNA Laboratory
New York, NY
Designed the complete cabling infrastructure for voice and data for this laboratory facility supporting forensic DNA testing. All work was carefully coordinated with utility companies for relocations of lines and entry points.
 
King’s County Hospital – Phase I & Phase II
Brooklyn, NY
Provided a cabling infrastructure design to support voice, video and data transmission for this major hospital’s expansion. Security design includes CCTV systems, a monitoring system/intrusion alarm system and an integrated lobby security system that ties into the existing security systems and links back to the campus command center in a separate building. Designed a wireless Infant Security System that encompasses the entire nursery floor.