• Project involves the fit out of approximately 31,000 sf for both the LDC and SLC primarily within the ground floor of the existing American Dream complex
• Fit out spaces contain various attractions including aquariums, acrylic tanks, theaters, and theme rides
• Will include several ramps and built up slabs to accommodate differences in elevation between the base building and the fit out spaces

• Located in Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Sports City
• Three-story, 5,000-seat arena used for sports, entertainment, and corporate and social events
• 37,000-square-foot main arena floor located at the center of the building
• Meeting rooms, offices, and storage space make up the building’s perimeter
• Constructed mostly of reinforced concrete
• Main arena roof is built with long span steel trusses

• A 65,000-seat stadium in Abu Dhabi
• Designed to provide both indoor and outdoor venues by utilizing a large moveable roof
• Steel trusses spanning up to 920 feet long frame the roof areas
• The seating bowl is framed with a mix of cast-in-place concrete elements and steel rakers

• This expansion established The Turning Stone Casino as the premier entertainment, meeting, and gaming destination within central New York
• Highlights within this 1.3 million sf expansion include: an event center, a 5,100-seat arena, a 100-key golf resort suite hotel
• Also includes a world-class spa and fitness center, a 20-story, 300-room hotel tower, a 25,000 sf Wintergarden, and a parking garage
• Extensive renovations are made to the existing facilities as well
• Awards:
  New York Construction Awards- Top Projects of 2004/2005
  New York Construction Awards – Award of Merit, Hospitality 2005
  New York Construction Awards – Top Projects of 2003/2004

• Consists of a multi-phased project
• Provides a gymnasium, basketball and volleyball courts, racquetball courts, health and wellness areas, administrative areas, campus support, and other recreation support areas
• Phases I and II contain 58,000 and 99,500 sf
• Phase I prescribes a tall volume two-court gym for intramural and recreational sports
• The main entry lobby, a two-story volume, is centrally located between the basketball courts and a fitness area for weight equipment and aerobic machines
• The mezzanine located above provides area for mechanical equipment, restrooms, and two multi-purpose group fitness rooms for aerobics classes
• The third major area is a two-story structure utilized for fitness activities that has a transparent wall with a view to the west
• The primary structural system consists of precast keystone joists supporting a concrete slab poured monolithically with the columns
• Long span steel joists support a concrete slab on metal deck and are used to span across the basketball courts
• DeSimone utilized a shallow foundation system and exterior walls of eight-inch masonry combined with glazed surfaces

• Situated on four non-adjacent sites located between East Second Street, Stanton Street, the Bowery and Chrystie Street in New York City
• A prototype project, which is the result of an innovative collaboration between state, city, non-profit and private organizations
• Contains over 750,000 sf of residential, retail and parking facilities
• Phase I, the main building, is a 14-story structure that provides a residential component, the Chinatown YMCA community/athletic center and 85,000 sf of retail space
• The additional three buildings are smaller and contain a variety of residential types, divided between luxury and middle-income units
• The complex contains 708 apartments
• Awards:
  McGraw Hill Construction (New York Construction) – Top Projects of 2005-2006

• A four-story, 350,000 sf complex
• Accommodates a variety of retail and entertainment functions
• Includes space for large volume retailers, theme stores, small local merchants, indoor restaurants, outdoor cafes, and virtual reality attractions
• Also contains a performance hall, and a 16-theater Sony cinema with IMAX theater
• Constructed on top of an underground conference hall, the structure utilizes 140 foot long clear span plate girders
• The lateral force resisting system ties into and transfers forces to the existing structure
• The project is designed to meet California’s Zone 4 Seismic Requirements
• Awards:
  AIA – Award of Merit 2000

• Built in three phases
• Phase 1, the 500,000 sf gaming project, a super-fast-tracked project, completed in just 12 months
• Phase II, “Project Sunburst”, a 5 million sf expansion
• Includes a 34-story, 1,200-room luxury hotel, meeting and function space including the northeast’s largest ballroom, retail shopping and 9 new restaurants.
• Also includes a 10,000-seat arena, gaming space, a 300-seat cabaret, a world-class spa, a business center, an indoor pool and an outdoor terrace
• Phase III, “Project Horizon”, the 1.4 million sf expansion, includes the Casino of the Wind, a House of Blues venue, administrative space, new retail and restaurant space, a Mandara Spa and an adult recreation lounge.
• Also includes back-of-house area, a 5,300-car parking garage and a 43-story, 1,000 room gold englazed hotel tower
• At each phase of this project, the Native American themed elements required specialty design
• Awards:
  Building of America 2008 (Mohegan Sun, Casino of the Wind)
  New York Construction Awards – Top Project 2008 (Mohegan Sun Expansion)
  New York Construction Awards – Silver Award 2002 (Mohegan Sun Phase II)
  New York Construction Awards – Mixed-Use Project of the Year 2001 (Mohegan Sun Phase II)