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It’s official!  Genesee Fed, SEI Design Group’s 2011 Canstruction entry is a winner!  We were happy to have some of the team members, sponsors, and guests celebrating with us at the Award Gala Event.  Rochester City School District Principal Kathleen Denaro and Charles Nash from Edison enjoyed the event with the SEI folks. Brad Moreland – team captain, and team members Charles Nash, Kiel Wobser, Kelly Wobser, and Steve Staveski accepted the award for BEST USE OF LABELS.

We want to take this opportunity to say thanks again to our sponsors: Engineered Solutions, M/E Engineering, Watchdog, Campus Construction Management, Walmart, and Genesee Brewing Company for contributing to this event.

The Schuylerville CSD project was recently published in Learning By Design as Outstanding Project 2011.  You can read the project and award info here.  Congrats to all involved!

SEI Design Group was ranked this fall in a few categories.

By New York State Construction News:

• SEI was ranked #68 in New York State
• SEI was ranked #89 in the Tri-State are (NY, NJ, CT)

By Architectural Record:

• SEI was ranked #200 of the Top 250 Design Firms nationally

We finally have winners to announce in two contests.

Jimmi won the Oops I Mean Hoops Contest.  We don’t understand this.  He seems to win the majority of contests around here.  We all want to know what his secret is.  Jimmi still has to tell us who he has selected as the lucky person who will get to wear this prize.

An internal March Madness Mojo contest landed Mike Ebertz with a flying monkey and Kelly Moulton with a flying chicken.

It’s about that time again, and this is a super easy contest!  Guess how many candy hearts in the jar. Submit your entry by February 10th by leaving a comment below. Entries will only count if you have a gravatar.  You may only enter 1 time.  In the case of a tie, the earliest entry will win, so don’t delay.  The winner will be awarded this gumball machine and some moolah to keep it stocked.  This contest is open to all including SEI staff, friends and family.

We were just informed that SEI Design Group Blog was selected by as one of the top Architecture Blogs by The Daily Reviewer.  Thanks very much!

ENR just published the the McGraw Hill first annual Best of the Best Awards and it is worth a look.

SEI Design Group was one of this year’s recipients of the 2008 AIA New York State Design Awards. SEI received one of 18 Awards of Merit for the Parry Building Office Renovation project in Rochester. SEI was one of 294 entries and will receive the award on Friday, September 26 at the Crowne Plaza in White Plains. In March, SEI was recognized for this project when they received top honor for the 2008 AIA Rochester Design Award.

The Parry Building Office Renovation project involved the first floor conversion of the former Parry manufacturing facility in the historic High Falls District to house SEI’s Rochester-based architectural office.

The four-story brick structure was built in the late 1800s. The interior consisted of heavy timber beams and old wooden columns. Into that setting, SEI integrated an office layout of new glass walls and wood veneers.

The Greater Rochester chapter of Boma recently recognized SEI Design Group for winning an AIA Design Award in their newsletter.  You can read the article by double clicking on the image on the left.