“I am honored to be recognized by the AGC of Massachusetts for this award. Consigli has provided me a tremendous opportunity to not only learn about the construction industry but give back to the healthcare industry in a special and unique way,” said Kelly. “Working on some of the best hospitals in the world in Massachusetts is rewarding and motivating, as I am able to play a small part in supporting and enabling healthcare professionals to help save lives.”

Kelly has worked on laboratories for AbbVie Bioresearch Corporation and UMass Medical Center and has focused on several projects at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. To date, she has worked on more than 20 projects at the hospital’s campus and is consistently recognized by team members for her attention to detail on these fast-paced healthcare projects.

“Nora is a young leader with a mountain of potential, and we couldn’t be prouder that she received this well-deserved recognition,” said Matthew Consigli, president of Consigli Construction, Co., Inc. “She serves as a role model for other young women, not only here at Consigli, but to those just starting their journey in the construction industry.  Her remarkable work ethic, confidence, and thoughtfulness will continue to inspire us all.”

She received a B.A. in political science from Middlebury College in 2015. Currently, Kelly is pursuing an MBA via Babson College’s evening MBA program to enhance her knowledge of construction management. Kelly joined Consigli in 2014 as a summer intern. Following her 2015 graduation, she was hired as a project engineer, becoming an assistant project manager in 2017. Outside of work, she is an enthusiastic golfer and runs a charity golf tournament with her family, Drive Fore A Cure, to raise money for a cure for cancer – which is a cause close to her family since her father was treated and cured at Beth Israel.

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In his role, Ciancetta will assist with business development efforts and will be responsible for the successful delivery of multiple concurrent projects from pre-construction through closeout. Ciancetta will focus on the Higher Ed, K-12, and Corporate markets.

“Vic has a proven record of success as a Project Executive,” said Mike Walker, Consigli Director of Operations in Connecticut. “His hard work and commitment over a 30-year career makes him a perfect fit. We are extremely happy to welcome Vic to the Consigli team.”

Prior to joining Consigli, Ciancetta worked at Turner Construction for 28 years.

“I couldn’t be more excited to be part of the Consigli team,” said Ciancetta. “I’ve admired Consigli for a long time and have always been impressed with the high-quality work they do, along with their strong commitment to their people and culture.”

Ciancetta holds an undergraduate degree from Manhattan College and a master’s degree in structural engineering from Clarkson University. He currently resides in Monroe, CT.

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As Project Executive, Weeks will provide overall team leadership and will ensure the client team is delivering on all project goals. Industry experience includes healthcare, hospitality, independent and assisted living, education, retail, and specialty projects. Originally from Maine, Weeks is excited to be back after living in New York for the past 32 years.

Mr. Weeks holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Maine at Orono.

Morse has been working in the construction industry as a Project Manager for 26 years with experience in both renovation and new construction in the education, healthcare, retail, and commercial fields. As Purchaser, Morse will be working in a defined procurement role responsible for analyzing estimates and reviewing proposals.

Mr. Morse studied Resource Economics at The University of New Hampshire.

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“This beautiful hotel will serve as a key building block for the area’s most exciting entertainment venue as it strives to be a premiere destination resort for the entire region,” said Greg Burns, President of New York Operations for Consigli. “This project is the result of an incredible joint venture and we thank our partner Tishman Construction as well as JCJ Architecture, all of the subcontractors and especially the community for their support.”

The hotel will also include a 5,000 square-foot signature Morton’s® The Steakhouse restaurant with a supportive 3,500 square-foot kitchen and 3,000 square-foot ballroom. The hotel is an exciting addition to the 75-year-old harness racetrack and casino that features more than 1,700 slot machines and electronic table games.

“Our new hotel will transform the entire guest experience at Saratoga Casino Hotel,” said Tom Wiedmayer, General Manager at Saratoga Casino Hotel.  “We are now a dynamic entertainment destination offering something for everyone, and offering visitors yet another reason to visit Saratoga Springs all year long.”

The entire project scope included the expansion of infrastructure and electric services to support the increased volume of guests as well as all associated site work.

Construction took place on an active campus. To maintain access to the existing casino operations, Consigli was creative in logistics planning and reconfigured vehicle roads, pedestrian walkways and the development of handicapped parking spaces to minimize impact on operations.

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Started by Joseph Kirchhoff in 1991 in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., Kirchhoff Construction Management, Inc., was enormously successful, completing hundreds of major projects throughout New York State. In 2009, Consigli Building Group, Inc. acquired Kirchhoff and renamed that portion of the company Kirchhoff-Consigli Construction Management.

“This has been and will continue to be the same great company that was started in 1991 under Joe’s leadership and the same it’s been since the acquisition in 2009,” said Anthony Consigli, CEO of Consigli. “Nothing will change but the name. We are excited about our future and look forward to our continued success under the Consigli brand.”

“This is a logical step and provides for the best possible growth opportunities for the people of this great company,” said Joseph Kirchhoff, founder and former CEO of Kirchhoff. “When we started more than 25 years ago, I did not imagine that the organization would be in the position that it is in today and I’m thankful to Consigli for sharing our core values as a company.”

“Our continued commitment to our employees and customers is paramount,” said Greg Burns, President of Kirchhoff-Consigli. “Though our name and colors are changing, our commitment to our customers and our people is not. We are still the same company, with the same talented team, providing the same service and loyalty we always have.”

Burns will retain his leadership role as President of New York Operations.

Since the acquisition of the Pleasant Valley based firm in 2009, Kirchhoff-Consigli’s annual volume has grown to more than $130 million in 2015. In 2011, the company opened a capital regional office in Albany.

About Consigli Building Group
Consigli Building Group, Inc. is a leading construction manager and general contractor with offices in Boston and Milford, Mass., Washington, D.C., Portland, Maine, Hartford, Conn. and New York State, serving clients throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. A fourth-generation family-owned business, Consigli is recognized by Engineering News-Record as one of the 100-largest in the country, and has received numerous awards and recognition as a top place to work as well as for its work and craftsmanship.

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Based on regional revenues, KCCM was ranked in the Top 25 of the Capital Region’s Top General Contractors by the Albany Business Review, with the firm’s construction of the Saratoga Casino and Raceway Hotel Expansion cited as one of the largest new projects in the area.

KCCM was also ranked #32 in New York by the nationally-recognized ENR magazine, which listed the new Mercy College Residence Hall in Dobbs Ferry, New York as a recent example of the firm’s work.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – Kirchhoff-Consigli Construction Management and Tishman Construction, an AECOM company, joined owners and executives of Saratoga Casino and Raceway, casino employees, construction workers and union officials to celebrate the “topping off” of the new hotel expansion for Saratoga Casino and Raceway today.

The group of more than 75, including dozens of ironworkers, gathered to mark this significant project milestone by signing the final piece of steel to be raised up and set into place. Since breaking ground on May 27^th, more than 650 tons of steel have been hoisted into place on the structure.

“The impressive rate at which this project is being built is testament to the hard work of our entire construction team,” said Tom Wiedmayer, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Saratoga Casino and Raceway in a statement to the press.

Since its initial design, minor modifications have been made, bringing the room count to 117, including 9 suites.  Hotel amenities will include an indoor pool, fitness center, lobby bar, meeting and banquet rooms and a signature fine-dining restaurant.

The $34 million, 123,000 square-foot hotel addition, designed by JCJ Architecture of New York is set to open in the summer of 2016.

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HYDE PARK, NY – Yesterday’s grand opening of the new Student Commons and student dining venue at The Culinary Institute of America—dubbed “The Egg,” for its oval shape—included the unveiling of a 1,100-pound chrome-finished eight-foot sculpture designed by Dillon Works of Mukilteo, Washington.

The new 28,468-square-foot food court facility, built by Kirchhoff-Consigli Construction Management, is the CIA’s answer to the question of how you “both feed and educate the nation’s future tastemakers with experiences above and beyond any other collegiate foodservice operation,” according to CIA Communications Manager, Jeff Levine.

The creation of world-renowned interior architect, Adam Tihany, in collaboration with project architects, Noelker & Hull Associates, Inc., The Egg serves as a student dining center and experiential classroom for CIA education programs, combining the most contemporary food and beverage technology, including an on-site microbrewery, made possible by a gift from The Brooklyn Brewery, with a wide variety of dining choices and a state-of-the-art kitchen.

“The Egg features seven lounge areas with a total seating of 500 indoors, outdoor seating for 150 with views of the Hudson River, a special events stage and advanced sound system, large multi-media screens for movie and sports nights, and dozens of charging stations,” says Levine.

The Student Commons also includes the newly renovated, 50,426-square-foot Student Recreation Center, offering students a wide variety of athletic and recreation options and a new 6,617-square-foot Student Affairs Wing, housing the Dean of Student Affairs, Counseling and Psychological Services, Health Services and Residential Life departments, as well as meeting space for student organizations.

See more about the ribbon-cutting on the CIA website and more about this transformative facility on the CIA’s Facebook page.

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The modular units that are the literal building blocks for Kirchhoff-Consigli’s construction of two, four-story Residence Halls. With an average of six, 55-foot-by-12-foot units put in place a day, the precise logistical management of this modular approach has significantly reduced the construction schedule for these two residential halls and is an important part of Kirchhoff-Consigli’s strategy for the $86 million campus transformation underway today.

Like a carefully orchestrated theater pro­duction, the construction of this master plan for Pace’s Westches­ter County campus in Pleasantville is unfolding, scene by scene. On center stage—these two new Residence Halls are rising up; on stage left—the new Environ­mental Center is complete; while on stage right, the transformed Kessel Student Center celebrated its opening just last month. This multi-phased, multi-building master plan implementation project, led by Kirchhoff-Consigli’s Project Executive Mark Zych, is requiring the best innovative thinking to keep its many moving parts synchronized.

Logistical Strategy Sets Strong Building Pace

The rapidly rising Residence Halls are at the center of this master plan implementa­tion. Along with a third hall to be built in a future phase, they add a total of 1,000 new beds to the campus and create a cohesive core around a traditional “Campus Green.” What is less tradition­al—and providing Kirchhoff-Consigli’s partners at Pace great cost savings, site safety and schedule benefits—is the manner in which sections of this new student housing is being built: with pre-fabri­cated, modular building units.

And yet, for modular construction at this scale—totaling over 220,000-square-feet—to reap great schedule benefits also depends on precisely honed logistical planning to avoid a log-jam of modular components, which could actually slow the work. Keeping this 3D chess game moving requires advanced planning—and minute-by-minute attention.

Before construction began last fall on Alumni Hall, the future home for first of the two suite-style halls to be built, Kirchhoff-Consigli’s Project Engineer, Steve Burpoe, identified a 13,000-square-foot staging area and planned the delivery and installation sequencing for the 170 modular units that would arrive on campus by truck from the Pennsylvania fabrication facility, four hours away. Steve explained the heightened efficiency with which this modular process is unfolding as the team moves into the construction of Residence Hall B, “Before the foundation work began for Residence Hall B, the modular units were in production. As soon as the foundations are complete in June, the units will be ready and we will move right into their installation.”

Kirchhoff-Consigli team’s coordination with Pace staff helps safely manage the daily arrival on campus of six or more units, in a slow parade of flatbed trucks. With the modular unit deliveries scheduled two hours apart, there is enough time to unload each unit before the next truck arrives—so campus traffic—and campus life—can keep flowing.

Planning the number of modular units to arrive each day also takes a fine balance: enough for the fast pace of installation, but not so many that they need to be repeatedly moved, like cars in a valet parking lot. To build the halls, each unit—roughly the size of a tour bus and weighing 64,000 pounds—is maneuvered into place by the #-foot-tall tower crane.

In just five weeks this winter, all 170 of Alumni Hall’s units were put into place, paving the way for its completion this summer. Each 55-foot-by-12-foot modular suite will house four students in two bedrooms, with a shared bath and living room. Once complete, Alumni Hall will be the new home-away-from-home for 488 Pace students.

And on its parallel track, the installation of the second hall’s 124 units will begin this July, though with even less wiggle-room, since a portion of Alumni HalHHall’s staging ground was part of the second hall’s site—and now is its foundation, currently in construction.

Many Modular Benefits

The Modular Building Institute defines modular construction as “a process in which building components are con­structed off-site, under controlled plant conditions, using the same materials and building codes, but in about half the time as when built on-site. Building off-site ensures better construction quality man­agement and safety conditions, as well as reducing on-site disruption and material storage needs.” Kirchhoff-Consigli’s work at Pace benefit­s from all these advantages.

A modular approach was not originally part of the project’s design. During the construction management team’s in-depth pre-construction planning, the Kirchhoff-Consigli team collaborated with the architects, EYP, in adopting a hybrid modular design approach, knowing it could bring many benefits to the project, while not hindering the design goals. This approach combined the use of these modularly built suites, with traditional on-site building methods for the customized construction of the halls’ common areas and shared spaces, like foyers, lobbies, cafés, and social and meeting rooms.

Making the Right Connections

Needing to accommodate mechanical air ducts, hot and cold water piping, electrical lines, sprinkler lines, plumbing, fire alarm system, as well as phone and digital data lines, the tight, hidden spaces above each residence hall corridor house the buildings’ vital infrastructure. To anticipate and plan this coordination, the team planned overall coordination by focusing on a prototypical suite, identifying where it connects to the building systems that run above the hallway ceilings.

Using a prototypical model, the team confirmed the dimen­sions and space requirements for the M/E/P systems. And if the building design showed a spatial miscalculation, it could be correct­ed, before the actual joining of modular suite systems to public area systems.

Andy Deschenes, Director of Consigli’s Project Services, likened this connection of each suite’s duct work from either side of the residential halls’ central corridors, into the compact ceiling spaces above the corridors, as a “zipping up.”

“In effect our pre-construc­tion model helped us determine how to build a giant duct-work ‘zipper’ that would integrate the systems from the suites on both sides of each hall. Once we had the dimensions for this ‘zipper’ confirmed in our prototype, it helped us be highly efficient in the field.”

All of this carefully planned modular construction at Pace is saving time, creating a safer building environment, and ensuring a high quality of construction. Win, win, win.

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KCCM’s Pace project team joins the University’s leaders, donors and members of the Pace community to celebrate the grand reopening of the Jeanette and Morris Kessel Student Center.

PLEASANTVILLE, NY – Kirchhoff-Consigli Construction Management (KCCM) proudly joined Pace University, April 23^rd in the ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the grand reopening of the Jeanette and Morris Kessel Student Center. The project is one of the first of several milestones in the Pace Master Plan, a large-scale campus transformation designed by EYP Architecture & Engineering allowing for the consolidation of their Briarcliff and Pleasantville operations at the Pleasantville campus.

The 57,000 square foot Kessel Student Center, which has been expanded by 9,500 square feet, now accommodates new student government offices, a dean’s suite, multi-purpose areas and a dining facility featuring floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the re-landscaped Choate Pond.

Despite a very harsh winter, last minute changes and challenges with existing conditions in the original building, the hardworking KCCM team was able to overcome all obstacles in order to open the facility on time. Pace University already observes an increase in interest and excitement from current and prospective students following the opening of the Kessel Student Center.

The Kessel Student Center is the heart of the 200-acre campus and is anticipated to serve the needs of an additional 700+ students who will be living and learning on the campus with the completion of two new residence halls. Alumni Hall, the first of the two residence halls, is scheduled to open in the fall.

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