AKRF serves the expansive building and campus needs of academic, healthcare, and science institutions.

In the healthcare sector we have completed well over 100 projects for hospitals, outpatient clinics, psychiatric centers, dental clinics, skilled nursing and long-term care facilities, blood banks, medical and clinical laboratories, morgues, animal care centers, and other types of facilities.

Our pre-K and K-12 school experience totals over 300 sites and facilities in five states, and AKRF has worked for more than 55 college and university clients on 200 projects ranging from campus master planning initiatives to the design and construction of individual buildings and facilities.

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Anne Locke, Associate AIA

Senior Vice President, Environmental and Land Use Planning

Lisa Lau, AICP

Senior Vice President, Environmental and Land Use Planning

Deborah Shapiro, QEP

Senior Vice President, Site Assessment and Remediation

Christian Thompson

Vice President, Acoustics, Noise and Vibration

Amy Crader, AICP

Vice President, Cultural Resources

Rebecca Kinal, PE

Vice President, Site Assessment and Remediation

Robert Caravella, PE

Senior Vice President, Engineering and Construction Services

Jarrod Holmberg, PE

Senior Technical Director, Geotechnical Engineering

Edward Confair, PLA, PE

Vice President, Landscape and Resiliency

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Recent Milestones

In 2024, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center received a Notice of Completion for the environmental review of its planned 31-story inpatient hospital building in Manhattan, and, in 2023, the New York Blood Center began construction on its Rye, NY, campus while Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital opened in Brooklyn and the John A. Paulson Center opened at NYU in Manhattan.

The Taystee Lab Building and Columbia Business School each opened in Manhattan in 2022, as did new schoolyards at Add B. Anderson School in Philadelphia and Molina Elementary School in Camden, NJ.

AKRF provided civil and stormwater engineering and landscape design for the revitalized schoolyard at Add B. Anderson School in Philadelphia.