Optima Design would like to welcome a new member to our team, Kaitlin Gorski. A recent graduate from University at Buffalo, Kaitlin received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in May of 2013. With experience from a challenging civil engineering internship and as a student member of UB’s American Society of Civil Engineers and Seismic Design Team, Kaitlin’s rapidly developing engineering skills will make a strong addition to our design team.

Optima Design is the proud winner of a Buffalo Business First’s Brick by Brick Award for a second year in a row. This year we were awarded for Best Multi-Residential Project in 2013 for our structural engineering contributions to 14 North Street in Buffalo, New York. 14 North Street, located at the northwest corner of North and North Pearl Street and originally constructed in 1899, was recently redeveloped into residential apartments offering exciting new living spaces at affordable rates that are conveniently located near many cultural and entertainment destinations of downtown Buffalo.

The annual Brick by Brick Awards Program recognizes finalists in seven categories of Real Estate, Construction, and Development in the Buffalo Niagara region. The Brick by Brick Awards are offered to Western New York’s most successful architects, engineers, developers, and contractors located in the Buffalo Niagara region.

The construction of the new hotel Fairfield Inn & Suites Elmira Corning in Horseheads, New York is almost complete. Optima Design is doing the structural engineering for the project. Recently some photographs were taken of the progress.

This year Niagara Falls started a new New Year’s Eve tradition; a guitar drop down the side of the Giacomo hotel as part of Hard Rock Cafe’s New Year’s Eve celebration. Optima Design provided the structural engineering to make the guitar drop possible. Watch a video of the guitar drop posted by WGRZ.

In the last year, Optima Design & Engineering received its professional engineering registration in the states of Pennsylvania, Florida, West Virginia, and Massachusetts. This makes Optima  Design currently licensed to practice engineering in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, West Virginia, Massachusetts, and Ontario. Optima Design is NCEES-accredited and is also able to become registered to practice engineering in other states in order to meet our clients’ specific project needs.