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Urbahn Announces Key Person Program. Four Senior Associates and Five Associates Named. New York, NY - September, 2004 The Partners of Urbahn Architects are proud to announce the institution of their Key Person Program. Robert Addieg, AIA; Urs Bamert, RA, LEED; Ranabir Sengupta, RA; and Peter Verne, AIA, LEED, have been promoted to Senior Associate. Melvin Aminoff, RA; Rainer Dumke, RA; David Franco, RA; Ronaldo Papaleo, RA; and Salvatore Paratore, RA, have been promoted to Associate. The Key Person program was established to recognize the commitment of these individuals to the firm, their enduring value to the firm, and their contributions to the design profession.. It also provides the foundation for their development and allows the firm to cultivate its next generation of leadership. A brief biography of each person follows. Robert Addieg, AIA has over thirty years of professional experience.. While he has been involved in a broad spectrum of the design practice, his focus has been in highly technical aspects of construction documentation. For the past five years Mr. Addieg has directed Urbahn’s Quality Control program. In addition, he is responsible for Urbahn’s document production standards, and regularly conducts internal training workshops. Urs Bamert, RA, LEED, has over fifteen years of architectural experience, during which time he has worked on educational, transportation, and justice projects. Mr. Bamert is a LEED accredited professional. His current recent responsibilities have included the management of the Addition to the Rikers Island George R. Vierno Center, Lexington Avenue/53rd Street Station and Six Stations on the White Plains Road Line. Mr. Bamert is a member of the Metropolitan Railway Club and the Society of American Military Engineers. Ranabir Sengupta, RA has nearly twenty years of architectural design experience. He has designed many of the firm’s major projects with an emphasis on educational and transportation facilities. His current projects include the Union City Magnet Integrated Arts School; the Metropolitan Schools Campus in Forest Hills, NY; and the Manhattan 6/8/8A Sanitation Garage. Mr. Sengupta, an accomplished historic preservation designer, is a member of the Historic Preservation Commission of Summit, NJ. Peter Verne, AIA, LEED, is an architect with over fifteen years of experience, fourteen with Urbahn. Mr. Verne has designed many of Urbahn’s commissions in the fields of education, research, and justice. Mr. Verne’s recent design credits include two projects at Stony Brook University: the Heavy Engineering Building and the Ambulatory Surgery Center; the Farmingdale State University 400-Student Residence Hall; and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Neurosurgical ICU. He is an active member of the AIA New York Chapter’s Committee on Education and is a LEED accredited professional. Melvin Aminoff, RA has over thirty years experience in project management, design, documentation and construction administration. Over his career he has worked on a wide spectrum of projects including hotels, schools, higher education, historic preservation and adaptive reuses. Mr. Aminoff was responsible for the construction phase services for two major New York Schools, PS-66K and PS-253Q; and is currently working on two projects for the New Jersey School Construction Corporation: Elementary School 5 in East Orange, and the Union City Integrated Magnet Arts School. Rainer Dumke, RA is an architect and healthcare planner with over 30 years of experience. In addition to his extensive hospital planning and design accomplishments, Mr. Dumke is experienced in research, educational, and transportation-facilities. He has served as senior architect on many of Urbahn’s most important commissions, including, the Brooklyn Veterans Administration Ambulatory Care Building; the Food & Drug Administration Veterinary Sciences Complex; and the David Axelrod Institute for Public Health. David Franco, RA has 19 years of experience, 15 of those years with Urbahn. Mr. Franco’s professional focus has been on large-scale renovations, modernizations and accessibility upgrades of transportation facilities. Over the past decade, Mr. Franco’s contributions have been critical on virtually every Urbahn transportation project. He has been responsible for the coordination and architectural design documents on projects for NYC Transit, NJ Transit, and Long Island Railroad. His current assignments include Penn Station on the Newark City Subway, Three Stations on the White Plains Road Line. Ronaldo Papaleo, RA is an architect with over twenty years experience
in a wide range of building types. Over his seven years at Urbahn he
has been involved in such major commissions as the College of New Jersey
Science Complex; the Farmingdale State University 400-Student Residence
Hall; and Ridgewood Station Accessibility Improvements. He is currently
the project manager for the Correctional Medical Center at the Rio
Piedras Correctional Complex in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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