History and Culture of Gilsanz Murray Steficek
GMS is a multi-disciplinary, structural engineering and building envelope consulting firm headquartered in New York City, with offices in Los Angeles, California, Stamford, Connecticut, and Bloomfield, New Jersey. They take great pride in their expertise in structural design, façade consulting, special inspections, construction administration, forensic analysis, component and systems engineering, and engineering for construction logistics. Since their inception in 1991, GMS has won over 350 project awards and has had the privilege of working with many talented architects, including ten Pritzker Prize winners.
Above all else, GMS strives to provide outstanding service and technical excellence. They listen to their Clients, collaborate with designers, and confer with builders to ensure successful projects. They listen, they investigate and they solve; they approach Client expectations with open minds and explore creative options to find the right solutions for every project, regardless of size, complexity, and material.
Their staff collaborates with teams across the country, across disciplines, and across our offices. Expertise is shared throughout the firm, via discussions and augmented by our network intranet. They share their knowledge through case study presentations in-house, writing for national publications, contributing to local, state, and national codes, and speaking at conferences across the country.
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Ramon Gilsanz, PE, SE, F.SEI, F.ASCE, Hon. AIA-NY (Partner)
Ramon’s experience ranges widely: new buildings, adaptive reuse, special structures such as the tallest building in Spain, the Caja Madrid Tower, to suspending cars in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum for the Cai Guo-Qiang exhibit. He is an active contributor to the structural engineering community and is currently helping develop new building codes.
Philip Murray, PE, SECB (Partner)
Philip Murray is a founding Partner of Gilsanz Murray Steficek. Over his 40 year career, Mr. Murray has been involved in the design and construction of hospitals, theaters, residential and office towers, civic buildings, museums, as well as the renovation of historical buildings.
Philip’s projects include the state-of-the-art New World Center symphony hall with office and rehearsal facilities in Miami Beach, Florida, designed by Gehry Partners, a new 6-story retail building at Broadway and Spring Street, to be fully occupied by Nike, and a new retail building in the Meatpacking District to be occupied by RH.
His current projects include the new Virgin Hotel in NoMad in New York City, a new community space and office tower for Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan and several high end residences on Eastern Long Island and in Florida.
Gary Steficek, PE (Partner)
Gary Steficek is a founding Partner of Gilsanz Murray Steficek. In his 40 year career as a structural engineer he has worked on numerous construction and renovation projects. Gary is licensed in 11 states and the District of Columbia, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Steel Construction.
Gary’s recent projects include the conversion of office space to luxury residences at the iconic Woolworth Building, dorms, student center and arena at Quinnipiac University’s York Hill Campus and a new mixed-use development in Flushing, New York of over 1.4 million square feet.
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Gilsanz Murray Steficek Selected Projects
GMS has been retained to provide building envelope consulting services for two new mixed-use development buildings located at 76 Eleventh Avenue. One tower will be a 28 story “boutique” hotel and the other, a 35 story luxury residential condominium, which will sit atop separate nominal 5 story podiums that will house a combination of occupancies including retail, additional residences, tenant/guest amenities and back-of-house support spaces.
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520 West 28th Street (New York, NY)
This new condominium project near the Highline will have 39 residences, automated underground parking and a wide range of amenities including a 2,500-square-foot planted sculpture terrace. The GMS Building Envelope team assisted the Architects with the façade and waterproofing. The façade includes large sliding glass panels, handcrafted bronze painted metal façade and Hadid’s signature curves. The chevron pattern of the façade envelops split levels of the building. Curved glass is used at the building corners and terrace guard rails. The 11 story L-shaped building was completed in 2017. The team is seeking LEED Silver certification.
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New World Center (Miami Beach, FL)
The home of the New World Symphony, this innovative facility features an acoustic music space of 756 seats which can be adjusted to suit a full orchestra or solo performers. The theater is equipped as an Internet classroom and transmission capability with large acoustic “sails” which double as projection screens. Performances can be projected onto a 7,000 sf screen-wall outside, facing the adjacent park. The structure is steel braced frames tied by the roof diaphragm and is built to resist hurricanes of south Florida.
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