NAIOP NYC Cultural

Developments Panel
Discussion

WEDNESDAY Please join NAIOP NYC for a panel discussion with

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 leading experts in the area of museum design and
8:30 am - 10:30 am construction. This program will examine the process of
planning, implementing and managing new construction,
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1700 Broadway renovation and expansion projects for New York City’s
New York, NY 10019 major cultural institutions. Current trends related to
building across a range of museum sizes, scales,

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SPEAKERS

ERIC HAHN CHUCK KNEAVES MICHELLE NEARY BRENDAN P. WEIDEN, PE

Senior Director Vice President, Project Architect, Associate Partner
Colliers International Management Gensler Jaros, Baum & Bolles
Lehrer Cumming

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Developments Panel Discussion

Eric has been involved in the construction industry for

more than 25 years. He brings a wide range of skills
and project management experience in overseeing major
renovation and capital improvements for commercial and
cultural projects.

Eric has completed multiple concurrent capital

ERIC HAHN
improvement projects for The Metropolitan Museum of
Senior Director Art. This includes the recently completed iconic redesign
Colliers International of the outdoor plaza that extends from 80th Street to
84th Street along Fifth Avenue and the renovation of
the Costume Institute Galleries. Eric is also overseeing
several infrastructure upgrades within the facility, such
as the replacement of over 30,000 sf of skylights above
the European Paintings Galleries and the complete
replacement of the galleries’ air conditioning systems.

Additionally, he is working on the development of a new

building for a private school on the Upper East Side that
includes a secondary modernization project of the existing
facility. He has been involved since early programming
and the team formation phase of the project. Eric recently
completed a modest expansion of the rooftop level of the
University Club. This was a carefully coordinated project
that consisted of two rooftop additions being performed
on a landmarked building. This work was performed while
the spaces directly below remained in full operation. It was
successfully completed in early 2016.

Prior to joining Colliers Project Leaders, Eric worked at The

Metropolitan Museum of Art for 14 years as the General
Manager for Capital Construction where he was responsible
for approximately $80 Million worth of construction a year.
In addition to his work at the Museum, Eric has worked
as a construction manager and as a design engineer. His
unique background as an owner, builder and designer has
been of great value when working on complex projects with
challenging site logistics, schedules and budgets.

Chuck is a proven construction professional with a 25-year

track record of delivering complicated projects from his
position on the owner’s side project management team. As
an in-house construction professional, Chuck specializes
in not only delivering these projects on time and within
budget, but with a keen eye on maximizing the value for
CHUCK KNEAVES the owner throughout the project’s life cycle, including
Vice President, Project Management design, construction and operation of the facility. As a
Lehrer Cumming mechanical engineer with a design background, combined
with a Master of Business Administration, Chuck brings a
complete view of the technical and commercial aspects
of construction management to ensure the highest result
for the institutional and public Owners for whom he has
delivered projects. Some of the major projects that Chuck
has been instrumental in include Alfred Lerner Hall and
the Renovation of Low Memorial Library at Columbia
University, the National September 11 Memorial and
Museum, and the MoMA Expansion. Chuck has also
guest lectured at Columbia University and NYU School of
Continuing Education.

Michelle brings invaluable project experience and assiduity

to a wide range of large, complex projects. Primarily working
on base building and cladding, Michelle has also enjoyed
working through the development of interior spaces for
projects ranging from residential renovations to million
square-foot new construction. Throughout the design and
MICHELLE NEARY construction phases, Michelle’s familiarity with codes
Architect, Associate translates into her ability to anticipate design conflicts and
Gensler provide design solutions at the earliest stages of the project.
Having completed projects on both coasts and in Texas,
Michelle’s most recent experience has been in realization
of unique exterior wall systems on projects for Columbia
University Medical Center and the Museum of Modern Art.

Brendan Weiden has served as a Partner at JB&B since

BRENDAN P. WEIDEN, PE
Partner
Jaros, Baum & Bolles
1989. Brendan joined the firm in 1979, and he has acted
as the Partner-in-Charge or Project Manager on a wide
variety of projects, including cultural, higher education,
critical operations buildings and government buildings as
well as major upgrades of landmarked buildings.
Brendan’s experience on museum and cultural projects
includes the Whitney Museum of American Art and
NASCAR Hall of Fame. As a leader of JB&B’s building
infrastructure team, he has also been engaged in the
repositioning of legacy buildings including landmarked
properties such as Rockefeller Center, The Ford
Foundation and 28 Liberty (formerly known as One Chase
Manhattan Plaza).

Brendan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical

Engineering from Manhattan College and a Master’s
degree in Business Administration from the Stern School
of Business at New York University. He is a licensed
Professional Engineer in the State of New York. For the
last 25 years, he has been a member of the fire alarm
Revision Steering and Code Interpretation Committee for
the Fire Alarm Code of New York City, and currently is a
member of two NYC 2018 code re-write committees: The
Flood Resistant Construction Advisory Committee and the
Fire Protection Technical Committee.