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Cosentini Associates provides consulting engineering services for the building industry.

Company History
The firm was established in 1952 as W. R. Cosentini & Associates. The founder, Benny Cosentini, died shortly after. In the early days, they specialized in designing MEP systems for speculative builders, such as Tishman Realty & Construction, Uris, Kaufman, LeFrak, and Zeckendorf. These buildings had modular building systems that were easy to adapt to various tenants.

In 1999, Cosentini became part of Tetra Tech, a provider of consulting, engineering, construction and technical services which includes resource management and infrastructure.

Cosentini currently has 300 employees in ten offices. They provide a range of building engineering services, including HVAC, Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing, Fire protection engineering and code consulting, mission critical, telecommunications engineering, security engineering, audiovisual, Architectural lighting design, energy conservation and LEED design/facilitation, commissioning, and construction services.

Milestones

 * First atrium building: Ford Foundation Building
 * First green residential high-rise in the US
 * First green commercial high-rise office building in the US: 4 Times Square
 * First integrated underfloor air column
 * First water-source heat pump with hydronic heating coil
 * First Variable air volume residential water-cooled unit
 * First packaged, floor-by-floor air-conditioning system
 * First major underfloor air project in the US: Owens Corning World Headquarters
 * First solar-heated building: Solar I House, University of Delaware, Dover Campus
 * First naturally ventilated pavilion: Saint Enoch's Square, Glasgow

1950s

 * 460 Park Avenue, Emery Roth
 * 666 Fifth Avenue, Carson and Lundin
 * 99 Park Avenue, Emery Roth (first project)
 * Church House of the First Presbyterian Church (Manhattan), Edgar Tafel
 * Irwin Union Bank and Trust, Eero Saarinen, Kevin Roche, and John Dinkeloo
 * SUNY Albany's Uptown Campus, Edward Durell Stone
 * Time-Life Building (Chicago), Wallace Harrison of Harrison, Abramovitz, and Harris

1960s

 * One Charles Center, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
 * Huntington Hartford Museum, Edward Durell Stone
 * Aetna Headquarters, Roche-Dinkeloo
 * Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, Eero Saarinen
 * CBS Building, Eero Saarinen
 * Ford Foundation Building, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo of KRJDA
 * Gateway Arch, Eero Saarinen
 * Habitat 67, Moshe Safdie
 * IBM Pavilion, 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, Eero Saarinen
 * Israel Museum, Alfred Mansfeld, Armand Bartos, and Frederick Kiesler
 * Kips Bay Towers, I.M. Pei and S. J. Kessler with James Ingo Freed
 * Knights of Columbus Building (New Haven, Connecticut), Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo of KRJDA
 * New England Aquarium, Peter Chermayeff of Cambridge Seven Associates
 * North Christian Church, Eero Saarinen
 * Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania, Louis Kahn
 * Hilton New York, William B. Tabler
 * Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Kenzo Tange

1970s

 * One Illinois Center, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
 * Boettcher Concert Hall, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer
 * Boston Public Library, Philip Johnson
 * Field Museum of Natural History restoration, Harry Weese
 * Government Insurance Systems headquarters, Howard Elkus of The Architects' Collaborative
 * Grand 1894 Opera House renovation, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer
 * IDS Center, Philip Johnson
 * John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, I. M. Pei
 * John Hancock Tower, Henry N. Cobb of I. M. Pei & Partners
 * Johns-Manville World Headquarters, John Sheehy of The Architects' Collaborative
 * Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York City, Gruzen Samton
 * Solar One, Mária Telkes
 * Solow Building, Gordon Bunshaft of SOM
 * Washington Metro, Harry Weese

1980s

 * 499 Park Avenue, James Ingo Freed of I. M. Pei & Partners
 * 500 Park Avenue, James Polshek
 * Carnegie Hall Tower, César Pelli
 * Crystal Cathedral, Philip Johnson
 * Hartford Seminary, Richard Meier
 * Lipstick Building, Philip Johnson
 * McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Charles Correa with Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc
 * Portland Building, Michael Graves
 * PPG Place, Philip Johnson
 * Rice Buidling at the Art Institute of Chicago, Hammond Beeby Babka
 * AT&T Building, Philip Johnson
 * Tower at Cityplace, Aldo Cossutta
 * United Airlines Terminal at O'Hare International Airport, Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects

1990s

 * 4 Times Square, Bruce Fowle of Fox & Fowle
 * Bell Atlantic Tower, Kling Lindquist
 * Capella Tower, James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
 * Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, KPF
 * Disney Animation Building, Robert A. M. Stern
 * Gate of Europe, Philip Johnson
 * Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry
 * Museum of Jewish Heritage, Roche Dinkeloo
 * Rodin Pavilion, KPF
 * Stuyvesant High School, Cooper, Robertson & Partners
 * United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc

2000s

 * First World Towers, KPF
 * IAC Building, Frank Gehry
 * Linked Hybrid, Steven Holl
 * National Museum of the American Indian, Douglas Cardinal, Johnpaul Jones, and GBQC Architects
 * Newman Vertical Campus at Baruch College, KPF
 * Lewis Science Library at Princeton University, Frank Gehry
 * Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Frank Gehry
 * Secaucus Junction, Peter Gorman of Brennan Beer Gorman
 * Time Warner Center, David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
 * Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry

2010s

 * 11 Times Square, Bruce Fowle of FXFowle
 * Millennium Place, Handel Architects
 * New World Center, Frank Gehry
 * Shanghai Tower, Gensler

Un-built

 * Atlanta Symphony Center, Santiago Calatrava
 * Chicago Spire, Santiago Calatrava

Further Information
List of projects at The Skyscraper Center, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat