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Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.
51 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10010
NY Tel. 917-661-7800
Fax 917-661-7801

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.thettgroup.com

Thornton Tomasetti has built a high profile by designing some tall towers. The firm has helped design everything from The New York Times building to the Washington Monument to Moscow's 87-story Federation Tower, which will be one of the tallest buildings in Europe once completed. Among services it provides are structural engineering, design consulting, 3-D modeling, and historic preservation. Thornton Tomasetti also helped coordinate the cleanup and engineering operations for the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001. The group works on commercial, industrial, and institutional projects worldwide, including airports, arenas, hospitals, hotels, museums, and schools. It has offices in the US, Europe, and Asia.

Officers:
Chairman and Managing Principal: Richard L. Tomasetti
CFO: Jeffrey Schreier
Director, Information Technology: Richard J. Grant

Competitors:
HKS, Inc.
HOK
Gensler

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Thornton Tomasetti
Type Private company
Founded 1956
Headquarters 51 Madison Avenue New York, United States
Key people Thomas Z. Scarangello, P.E. (Chairman)

Daniel A. Cuoco, P.E. (President and Chief Executive Officer)

Robert P. DeScenza (Chief Operating Officer)

Aine M. Brazil, P.E. (Managing Principal),

M. Stephen Dennis, Esq. (Managing Principal & General Counsel)

Daniel F. Marquardt, P.E., S.E. (Managing Principal)

Dennis C.K. Poon, P.E. (Managing Principal)

Emmanuel E. Velivasakis, P.E., F.ASCE (Managing Principal)

Joel S. Weinstein, P.E. (Managing Principal)

Joseph G. Burns, P.E., S.E., CEng, FAIA., LEED AP (Managing Principal)
Industry Structural Engineering
Services Consulting
Building Evaluation
Forensics and Advanced Analytics
Integrated Modeling
Exterior Wall Consulting
Historic Preservation
Multidisciplinary Design
Employees 600 (2009)
Website thorntontomasetti.com

Thornton Tomasetti (formerly The Thornton-Tomasetti Group, Thornton Tomasetti Engineers, LZA Technology) is a 650+ person structural engineering consulting firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1956 as Lev Zetlin & Associates, the 50-year old company has office locations throughout the world.

The engineering firm provided the structural design for several of the world's tallest building structures, including the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Taipei 101 in Taiwan. Other recognizable structures designed by the firm include Soldier Field in Chicago, PETCO Park in San Diego, and the Minneapolis Public Library in Minneapolis. Thornton Tomasetti has collaborated with several high profile architects including Cesar Pelli, Santiago Calatrava, Renzo Piano, and Rafael Vinoly.

Thornton Tomasetti is also committed to advancing the use of "Green" and sustainable building practices by encouraging its clients to obtain LEED building certification. A large percentage of Thornton Tomasetti's staff has been trained in the use of green building practices and have been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

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History

The company began using the name Thornton Tomasetti in 1975 when Charlie Thornton and Richard Tomasetti purchased Lev Zetlin & Associates (LZA) from Gable Industries, to which Lev Zetlin had sold LZA in 1973. Thornton Tomasetti immediately began to branch out and enter the highrise market with several innovative designs. [1]

New York Office

The New York office essentially began in 1956 as Lev Zetlin & Associates (LZA) by Lev Zetlin upon the completion of his PhD at Cornell University. Lev Zetlin pioneered the use of the double layer bicycle wheel roof system used in the Utica Civic Auditorium, as well as the hyperbolic (hypar) roofs utilized in American Airlines 747 super-hangers at airports in Los Angeles and Sand Francisco. Lev Zetlin also embraced the creative use of materials, most notably demonstrated in a bridge design made entirely of paper products for an International Paper ad.[2]


1964 World's Fair New York State Pavilion

1964 World's Fair General Electric Pavilion

International Paper Ad

One Liberty Place, Philadelphia, PN, USA


Chicago Office

Eli Cohen

The Chicago office was created in 1993 when Cohen-Barreto-Marchertas (CBM) was acquired by Thornton Tomasetti. CBM was created in 1965 by Eli Cohen. Under his leadership, CBM pioneered the use of the now common composite steel structural system. This involved the integration of a reinforced concrete core wall, to resist lateral loads, with a light steel floor framing. The development of 50 to 60-story buildings became more feasible and efficient because the lighter framing reduced construction time and expense, and allowed for large, column-free spans, giving architects greater freedom in exterior expression.

In the early 1960s his adaptation of the concrete cooling tower design to high rise offices required a change in the way the unions worked. Until that time ironworker contracts forbid members of other trades to work at higher elevations at job sites. But the proposed system was reviewed with them and they agreed to let concrete workers work above them. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]


77 W Wacker Drive, Chicago

Leo Burnett Building, Chicago

181 West Madison, Chicago

Notable Projects

Taipei 101
Petronas Towers
New York Times Building

Skyscrapers & Buildings

  • 1111 South Wabash, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 181 West Madison (as CBM ENGINEERS), Chicago, IL, USA
  • 191 North Wacker, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 30 Hudson Street, Jersey City, NJ, USA
  • 30 West Oak, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 401 East Ontario (as CBM ENGINEERS), Chicago, IL, USA
  • 420 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, USA
  • 5 Times Square, New York, NY, USA
  • 546 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, USA
  • 55 East Erie, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 550 West Jackson, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, USA
  • 717 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX, USA
  • 745 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, USA
  • 840 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA
  • ABN AMRO Plaza, Chicago, IL, USA
  • AMA Building (as CBM ENGINEERS), Chicago, IL, USA
  • Americas Tower, New York, NY, USA
  • Bloomberg Tower, 731 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, USA
  • Chase Center, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Chifley Tower, Sydney, Australia
  • Children's Museum of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Citicorp Center (as CBM ENGINEERS), Chicago, IL, USA
  • City View Tower, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Conrad Chicago Hotel, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Comcast Tower, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Continental Center, New York, NY, USA
  • Embassy Suites New York, New York, NY, USA
  • Erie on the Park, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Fifty South Sixth, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • Furman Hall, New York, NY, USA
  • Harborside Financial Center Plaza 5 & Plaza 10, Jersey City, NJ, USA
  • Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, LA, USA
  • Kingsbury on the Park, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Lehman Brothers Building, New York, NY, USA
  • Leo Burnett Building (as CBM ENGINEERS), Chicago, IL, USA
  • McMahon Hall of Fordham University, New York, NY, USA
  • Menara Maxis, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • Miranova Condominiums, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA
  • New York Times Building, New York, NY, USA
  • One Indiana Square, Indianapolis, IN, USA
  • One Liberty Place, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • One Mellon Bank Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • One Pennsylvania Plaza, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Optima Horizons, Evanston, IL, USA
  • Optima Towers, Evanston, IL, USA
  • Overture Center, Madison, WI, USA
  • Park Alexandria, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Plaza 66, Shanghai, PRC
  • Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • R R Donnely Building (as CBM ENGINEERS), Chicago, IL, USA
  • Random House World Headquarters, New York, NY, USA
  • Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
  • The Westport, New York, NY, USA
  • The Plaza at PPL Center, Allentown, PA, USA
  • Times Square Tower, New York, NY, USA
  • UBS Tower, Chicago, IL, USA
  • University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Building, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Westin Hotel at Copley Place, Boston, MA, USA
  • Winspear Opera House, Dallas Texas


Stadiums & Convention Centers

The New Minneapolis Central Library, designed by César Pelli, completed in 2006
Ford Field

Rehabilitation

Notable Projects Under Construction

Basic exterior shape of the Chicago Spire.

Community Projects

In addition to founding Thornton Tomasetti, Charlie Thornton founded The ACE Mentor Program, which is a not-for-profit organization, formed to enlighten and motivate students toward architecture, construction, engineering, and related careers by providing mentoring opportunities for future designers and constructors [8].

Notes

  1. ^ Thornton Tomasetti, Thornton Tomasetti Corporate Website, http://www.thorntontomasetti.com, retrieved 2007-09-30 
  2. ^ Forrest Wilson (1975), merging Form in Architecture: Conversations with Lev Zetlin, Boston, MA: Cahners Books 
  3. ^ Trevor Jensen ([dead link] – Scholar search), Eli W. Cohen: 1927-2007, http://www.topix.net/content/trb/0589394212013616625916681589553971673306, retrieved 2007-09-30 
  4. ^ Clyde N. Baker Jr. ([dead link] – Scholar search), Thoughts on Eli Cohen, http://www.seaoi.org/documents/x07-0513-ec.htm, retrieved 2007-09-30 
  5. ^ Lynn Becker, Thoughts on Eli Cohen, http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/05/eli-cohen-passes-away.html, retrieved 2007-09-30 
  6. ^ ZweigWhite Information Services, Eli W. Cohen, structural engineering pioneer, http://www.gostructural.com/article.asp?id=2232, retrieved 2007-09-30 
  7. ^ Emporis.com, Thornton Tomasetti, http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm/?id=thorntontomasettiengineers-newyorkcity-ny-usa, retrieved 2007-09-30 
  8. ^ ACE Mentor Program

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