The Thrill of Victory - Structure Tone Inc.

4From City to Citywestby Mike Kavanagh The reception area at Adobe Dublin features finishes that arestandard to Adobe worldwideCitywest business campus on the perimeter of Dublin City isa world class location for global investment. The Irish governmenthas designated Citywest as Ireland’s national digitalpark—created as a joint venture between the Industrial DevelopmentAuthority and Citywest. As such, Citywest is the premierlocation offering state-of-the-art communications, IT and utilityinfrastructure for companies with these unique requirements. Today,the park is home to over 120 global companies focused ontechnological innovation.Structure Tone, a leader in tenant fit-out and IT and tele/datacomconstruction, has been the construction services provider for manyyears for companies locating in Citywest. Notable assignments haveincluded 60,000sf for SAP and 115,000sf for Metromedia FibreNetworks, as well as our most current project for Adobe SoftwareSystems Ireland.Adobe chose Citywest as the location for its headquarters in Ireland.The new 20,000sf space was designed by Chu Associates, inconjunction with Gilligan Associates, with DSA as engineers andKMCS Ltd. as project manager. Work included the construction ofopen plan work areas, perimeter offices and meeting rooms, multipurposeroom, break rooms, post room, phone booths, IT stagingroom and reception.Structure Tone’s work for Adobe in Dublin followed on the successof over a half dozen projects completed for Adobe in London (andits suburbs), Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing and New York—and Edinburgh,currently underway. These projects encompass more than160,000sf—most of it also designed by Chu Associates. Our internationalexperience with both Adobe and its consultants, combinedwith our local expertise building in Citywest, was invaluable to ourhigh quality, expeditious completion of the Adobe Software Systems’Ireland project.Our work at Citywest continues. Following completion of theAdobe project, we began construction of new offices for FidelityTelecommunications Group. This is a 30,000sf office facility designedby Gensler, engineered by RN Murphy and cost managed byDavis Langdon PKS, Quantity Surveyors.Like its 120 tenants, Structure Tone is right at home at Citywest. Gift of Lifeby Giovana MoreanoOur Lyndhurst office created the Spirit Committee, a groupwhose goal it is to improve communication, build morale,engage in community service and facilitate team building.The committee organizes both employee-only events, such asbowling night and pot luck lunches, but also focuses on communityservice activities.One of the most important events orchestrated by the committeewas a joint effort with Community Blood Services of New Jersey.The blood drive was held in memory of Sheelah Flynn, a close relativeof a member of the Spirit Committee. We had a very enthusiasticresponse enabling us to collect 21 pints of blood, surpassingthe blood bank’s goal of 15 pints. L to R: Raymond Donaghy, John White Jr., Angelo Stambolis,Ravi Venkatesan, Giovana Moreano, Carl Held, Omar Casiano,Rosalynn Fernandez, Brian Heffernan, Lorena Stoppiello, KylePetermann, Kerri Decker, Steve Sullivan, Rakesh Shah, Chris Mills,Sopan Desai, Catherine Beirne—all with Structure ToneV O L U M E I V | Q III | 2 0 0 8