Events – Seneca Group

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Michael Fischer Interview on Patient-Centered Design Trends

October 16, 2024

Earlier this month, Michael Fischer shared his insight on patient-centered design trends in healthcare facilities. Drawing from his extensive experience with in-patient and outpatient construction projects, pharmacies, and campus renewal efforts, Fischer discussed how future facilities will prioritize flexibility, more resiliency, and thoughtful planning to better service evolving healthcare needs. […]

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Charlie Gronek Invited to Sustainable Healthcare Facilities Panel

October 2, 2024

Charlie is speaking at the Pacific NW Healthcare Conference on 10/15, joining other sustainability experts to discuss Sustainable and Future-proofed Healthcare Facilities. He joins Mike Denny (Providence), Devin Kleiner (Perkins & Will), John Bernatz (Shaw Industries), Chris Olmsted (Creative Energy) and Kurt Kruckeberg (Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson) in discussing decarbonization, sustainable design, energy efficiency, […]

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AIA24 Conference Tour Brochure of Amazon’s HQ2

June 14, 2024

Elaine Wine was a 2x guest tour guide of HQ2 during AIA24’s Conference 6/5 – 6/8 in DC. One of her project partners, ZGF, developed this brochure highlighting Amazon’s second HQ in Crystal City, VA. The brochure showcases the key design goals – developing an open neighborhood campus that served both employees and community […]

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Amazon’s 424 Fifth Avenue Wins NY Landmarks Award

February 14, 2024

424 Fifth Avenue has been selected to receive NY Landmarks Conservancy’s prestigious Lucy G. Moses Preservation Project Award for 2023. Every year, the Conservancy presents these awards as a tribute to outstanding achievements in historic preservation. Named after a benevolent and committed resident of New York, these awards honor her legacy. Thank you to Higgins […]

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New Principals and Associate Principal for Seneca Group

February 7, 2024

Seneca Group welcomes Lavina Sadhwani and Nick Diede to the Principal Group and Blair Greenberg to the Associate Principal Group. Lavina brings 23 years of invaluable experience to the firm’s leadership. Her expertise extends to long-range master planning and entitlements, delivering large-scale shell and core projects for life science, healthcare, civic, and commercial office clients. […]

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NatureBridge Evening on the Lake

February 1, 2024

Seneca Group is honored to help NatureBridge raise funding for vital community programs and park maintenance. As building community is one of our core values, we stood alongside our clients and project partners to sponsor the Evening on the Lake in October. This event raised $345,000 towards future educational programs and the maintenance of […]

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Charlie Gronek Joins WTOP + Amazon Sustainability Panel

November 30, 2023

Charlie joins other project team sustainability leaders on WTOP’s panel to highlight Amazon’s Met Park strategies for achieving net-zero . Listen and watch here. WTOP YouTube Video […]

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Amazon’s HQ2 Wins 2023 NAIOP Award of Excellence!

November 15, 2023

Last night at the 2023 NAIOP Northern Virginia Award ceremony, our Amazon HQ2 Metropolitan Park project received the highest recognition – the Built to Suit Non-Institutional Award of Excellence! Congratulations and thanks go out to the whole Seneca Group team that worked tirelessly on this impressive project. We are proud to have worked alongside many […]

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Elaine Wine Speaks at Clark’s Greenbuild Reception

September 29, 2023

Elaine Wine joined other regional leaders at Clark Construction Group’s Greenbuild Reception and Dinner Monday, 9/25/23 at the National Building Museum in Washington DC. She shared her project leadership approach to encourage carbon-reduction strategies. Pictured (l to r): Catriona Winter (Panel Moderator), Vice President, Clark Construction Group; Raj Deshpande, PhD MBA, Director of Sustainability, Saint-Gobain North America; Arathi Gowda, Principal, ZGF Architects; Elaine […]

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Rehabbing an Historic Site

September 25, 2023

“As part of our community engagement commitment, some of our Seattle team spent the morning with our Amazon GREF colleagues at Camp Kilworth working at the annual NAIOP Community Engagement project. The centerpiece of the Camp, a rustic lodge, was built in 1935 by World War 1 veterans, and the historic site was once […]

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Welcome to Midtown Manhattan, Amazon!

September 12, 2023

Exciting day for Seneca Group, Amazon and all the project partners bringing “Hank,” Amazon’s NY tech hub, to life. We celebrate this sustainable, adaptive reuse effort of the former Lord & Taylor building that now provides space for more than 2,000 employees. Congratulations to the whole team. […]

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Seneca Group Volunteers Celebrate Earth Day by Planting 300 Saplings with Chesapeake Bay Foundation

May 1, 2023

Our Northern Virginia Seneca Group volunteered last week with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation at Clagett Farm. Together, we assisted in repotting over 300 saplings that will eventually find permanent homes along local waterways. Shoreline trees help to filter the air and environment above and hold soil below to curb pollution and outflow before they hit […]

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Vivian Ramirez Joins Esteemed Panel for Open Discussion on Equity and Career Development in Design

April 23, 2023

Our own superstar Vivian Ramirez joins other talented women on 4/25 for the Gensler/AIA DC Equity Committee’s Wield panel. She’ll be part of an open discussion around equity and career development in the design field. Come join Seneca Group, HITT Contracting, Gensler and more. https://lnkd.in/dpxpdnwd. Thank you for helping transform and strengthen our industry, Vivian. […]

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Seneca Group – Arlington, Liberty Promise, and AWS host Alexandria High School youth

April 18, 2023

Seneca Group (Sergio Curro), in conjunction with Liberty Promise and AWS, facilitated Alexandria High School youth visit to the Amazon Skills Center in Crystal City. This interactive space created as part of Amazon’s HQ2 hosts interactive exhibits about cloud computing and AI technologies designed to power future generations. The high school students experienced thought-provoking and […]

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The Climate Pledge

September 27, 2022

Seneca Group is proud to announce that we have joined The Climate Pledge. Together with 375+ other leading companies, we’re committed to reaching #netzerocarbon by 2040. https://www.theclimatepledge.com/us/en/Stories/impossible-foods-cotapaxi-among-new-signatories https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6977609567807438849/ […]

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Seneca Group Day of Giving – Seattle

August 8, 2022

This past week, Seneca Group spent a day volunteering at Rainier View Elementary with Seattle Public Schools. Our team helped with various outdoor refresh activities such as weeding, mulching, building garden beds and painting athletic court lines and art. Thank you to Seattle Public Schools for having us out for the day! […]

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Seneca Group Day of Giving – Arlington

July 27, 2022

As part of Seneca’s community engagement commitment, our NoVA team recently spent the day cleaning up one out of the 30 ponds at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Northeast DC. The gardens are on ancestral land to the Nacotchtank (Anacostan) and Piscataway Conoy People. With exotic water lilies and lotus that bloom primarily during the summer, […]

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Seneca’s NOVA team going strong!

April 28, 2021

The pandemic may have slowed a few things down but not on our Northern Virginia Seneca team. Now at 5 members and soon to be 6, Jeff Giuzio, our Seattle Principal overseeing the Amazon HQ2 development, was finally able to experience the team in 3-D. It was a great day! […]

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Seneca Group Celebrates its 25th Anniversary

October 3, 2017

October 3rd 2017 marks the 25th Anniversary of Seneca Group. […]

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Seneca + Outdoors for All Volunteer Day

August 18, 2016

This year we are supporting Outdoors For All by assisting with a cycling event and BBQ at one of their summer day camps, and making some improvements to their Adaptive Cycling Center while we’re there at Magnusen Park. […]

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Love Parks Volunteer Day

July 16, 2013

Seneca Group is privileged to work with many of the community groups and non-profit organizations contributing to the health, welfare and cultural enrichment of the citizens of our region. We find inspiration in their work, and support their causes through donations of services, time and financial support. In July, our team closed the office and […]