Our services are based on relationships with various Equity Investors and Commercial Property Owner’s, previous completed assignments and successful projects and has as a foundation our trained capabilities as professional architects. We are focused and organized as an independent 3rd party due diligence resource with a broad perspective as to the owner’s interests. We ‘add to’ but do not replace the professional responsibilities of the project’s A/E Team selected for the project or the local Governmental Building Inspection Process.
During the past six years, we have been involved in development of over 2,050 units of new rental apartments, Condo conversions and new mid-rise Luxury Condo’s representing about $200 million in construction cost. Previously, serving in various roles including as Architect-of-Record, we have delivered public sector projects using HUD’s 221 (d)3, 202, CFA Elderly and Section 8 housing programs including projects in New Haven, Connecticut (Church Street South) and most of the Midwestern states. We were also involved in the largest site of HUD’s Operation Breakthrough demonstration program in the 1970’s using various industrialized manufacturing systems and producers; this site was located in Jersey City, New Jersey.
We have also been involved in six major commercial projects, again serving Equity Investors, involving about 2.5 million square feet of space.
These projects included new office buildings, renovation of a regional shopping mall with addition of new (16) theatre movie-plex, conversion of the former Global Research Headquarters of Polaroid Corporation into a new 56 acre office campus and a Historic Tax Credit renovation property, The Arsenal on The Charles, located in Watertown, Massachusetts. These commercial projects involved:
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476,000 SF of New Office buildings (four projects) including one ‘Shell and Core LEEDS Silver Certified’ new office building |
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1,290,000 SF of renovated buildings (two projects) including new commercial office, new six-story parking structures and mixed-use occupancies |
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825,000 SF of renovated regional shopping mall |
We have also served as ‘Owner’s Representative’ for a major office property (230,000 SF high-rise plus three level parking garage) to conduct property repositioning feasibility studies, related property inspection to audit capital improvement progress, budgets and construction suitability, providing pre-sale property inspection, and consultant selection and management.
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December 2006: The Association of Construction Inspectors (ACI) has issued two certifications to GD Harley & Associates, the first is certifications as
- CONSTRUCTION INSPECTOR And the second, as
- CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER
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ACI ( www.iami.org) is the largest professional organization for those involved in construction inspection (verifying percentage of completion @ monthly DRAW requests) and construction project management (providing full construction monitoring: paying of the contractor & subcontractors, verify each stage of construction & reporting to the client). ACI provides standards, guidelines, regulations, education, training, and professional recognition. |
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April 2007: The Post-Tensioning Institute headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, after training and testing, PTI has certified GDHarley as an...
- LEVEL 1 UNBONDED POST-TENSIONING INSTALLER and
- LEVEL 2 UNBONDED POST-TENSIONING INSPECTOR
The Post-Tensioning Institute, www.post-tensioning.org is a non-profit organization representing businesses and professionals dedicated to expanding quality post-tensioning applications through research, code development, conducting teaching, field workshops and certification of inspectors. PTI also provides independent certification of concrete production plants using unbonded single strand tendons in conformance with PTI’s specifications. |
