Real Estate Journal — February 9 - 22, 2018 — 3A
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M id A tlantic R eal E state J ournal Consolidates its three NYC offices into a single, collaborative 13,500 s/f workspace LiRo Architects+Planners designs regional New York City HQ for its parent firm, The LiRo Group N EW YORK, NY — The LiRo Group (LiRo) , a national,
new offices. First, they would be consolidating various groups, including LAP; LiRo’s renowned Virtual Design, Construction, and Operations (VDCO) team; construction and project management per- sonnel; and the engineering staff in disciplines ranging from civil to structural. The goal was to house all of these operations in one office in a manner that allows for the utmost in workspace flexibility and openness, fostering open communication among groups, and helping the teams work better together on interdisci-
plinary projects. While there are designated work areas for the various groups, it was decided early on that the new space should pro- mote open communication and collaboration among them all. According to Joseph Grant, AIA , VP, division leader, Ar- chitecture, who led the design work, “We wanted to promote ‘openness’ and ‘transparency’ in every sense of those words, and we wanted to foster an egalitarian, democratic atmo- sphere. We used a great deal of glass and open-plan worksta- tions to achieve that.” n
multidisciplinary construction and program management, architecture and engineering, and environmental solutions firm, has just opened its new NewYork City hub on the 28th floor of One State Street Plaza in the Battery Park section of Lower Manhattan. T h e f i rm ’ s a r c h i t e c - t u r e d i v i s i o n , L i R o Architects+Planners (LAP) , designed the new $3 million, 80-person workspace to be large and flexible enough to accommodate future growth, as the rapidly expanding LiRo has doubled its number of personnel in the last five years alone. The contemporary, open, and collaborative 13,500 s/f workspace, taking up ap- proximately three-quarters of the floor, consolidates several different LiRo functions from three former Manhattan lo- cations, and has effectively doubled the amount of office space the company occupies in the city. LAP led the search effort for the new space and helped define three main functional requirements for the firm’s • Confirm and get in writ- ing that only federally tested and licensed pilots will oper- ate drones on behalf of your company; as part of this due diligence, be sure to check the certificates of all pilots who will be conducting flights. • Be sure that the third-par- ty vendor is properly insured to cover drone operation. This is not a given. Insurers often consider aviation a special risk category that requires either a separate policy or an endorse- ment that provides coverage for drones as an addition to an existing policy. • Consider requiring the vendor to add your company to its insurance policy as an additional insured, a standard risk-management practice across American business. • Understand the basic rules/guidelines pertaining to drone operation under federal regulations, so that you can keep your vendors honest. LeClairRyan provides business counsel and client representation in corpo- rate law and litigation. n continued from page 2A Companies should exercise due . . .
LAP designed the new $3 million, 80-person workspace
NYU - Winthrop University Hospital
SUNY Stony Brook New Medical and Research Translation Building (MART) and Hospital Pavilion
Providing Program & Construction Management and Design Solutions to the Healthcare Industry
Westchester Medical Center
SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
St. Francis Hospital
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