SWBR is proud to announce that four of our projects have been recognized with awards by the Rochester Chapter Construction Specifications Institute (CSI).
The Barack and Michelle Obama Teen Empowerment Center received the Owner Collaboration Award recognizing outstanding teamwork and communication between the design team and owner to deliver a project with positive community impact. Teen Empowerment’s new Rochester headquarters supports its mission to employ youth as leaders – amplifying their voices, building skills, and positioning them to create change in their community. Reflecting its commitment to empowering youth, youth leaders were engaged to guide the planning process, with SWBR incorporating their input directly into the design.
Rochester’s Cornerstone Group’s Marketplace Senior Apartments was honored with the People’s Choice Award, recognizing the project’s thoughtful design and community impact. This award reflects the support and enthusiasm from the public for projects that elevate quality of life through architecture. Built on a vacant parcel on a suburban mall campus, the new, all-electric housing community offers 150 units of affordable apartments for seniors.
Home Leasing’s Tailor Square was recognized with the Collaboration Award, outstanding teamwork between clients, designers, and the construction team to deliver a project that benefits the community. The project is a redevelopment of the historic Hickey Freeman manufacturing building into a mixed-use, mixed-income community in the City of Rochester. The adaptive reuse project retained manufacturing space while transforming a significant portion of the building into affordable senior apartments.
The UltraPhil Center for Aseptic Excellence renovation project earned the Design-Build Award, which celebrates collaboration between design and construction teams. Located in downtown Rochester, the facility is the world’s first and only small-scale, bottle-based pilot aseptic research, development, and production center. SWBR provided structural engineering design services to Mitchell Design Build for the project.
The annual CSI Rochester awards celebration was held Thursday, May 1 in Rochester, New York.