MONTOUR FALLS, N.Y. — Welliver, a provider of construction services in New York state and northern Pennsylvania, received the 2023 Jeffrey J. Zogg Build New York Award from the Associated General Contractors New York State (AGC NYS) on May 4. In recognition of excellence in construction management and teamwork, Welliver won the award for the […]
MONTOUR FALLS, N.Y. — Welliver, a provider of construction services in New York state and northern Pennsylvania, received the 2023 Jeffrey J. Zogg Build New York Award from the Associated General Contractors New York State (AGC NYS) on May 4.
In recognition of excellence in construction management and teamwork, Welliver won the award for the Cornell University North Campus Residential Expansion (NCRE) project. The award ceremony was held in Albany, in conjunction with the AIA NYS Excelsior Awards for Public Architecture.
Welliver provided pre-construction and construction services on the NCRE project, developed in anticipation of Cornell’s growing class size. The two-phase, LEED Gold, 776,000-square-foot expansion of the student-life residential complex provides undergraduate students more housing options on campus.
“Recognition by the AGC NYS, as well as our peers in the construction industry, is a testament to the expertise of our people, versatility of the team, and construction capability to successfully execute large projects such as the residential expansion on the Cornell campus,” Anne Welliver-Hartsing, president of Welliver, said in a news release.
The project, in collaboration with ikon.5 architects, provides more than 2,000 new beds for first-year and second-year students on Cornell’s residential North Campus. Both sites include three-story to five-story courtyard buildings that also offer lounges, meeting spaces, classrooms, and kitchens. The new Morrison Dining Hall, at 58,230 square feet, provides 11 micro stations and a 2,400-square-foot Discovery Kitchen with 24 teaching stations used for academic classes and Cornell dining.
Work on the project included new buildings, road improvements, landscaping, high-end foodservice, and turf fields. NCRE is the largest project Cornell University has completed, spread across 27 acres of the campus in total and involving three different municipalities.
At peak construction, the project employed more than 500 people with Welliver putting an emphasis on working with local contractors whenever possible. The project provided more than $192 million in revenue to contractors in the state, the company said.
The NCRE project was also named the 2022 ENR Regional Best Project in the higher education/research category, a 2022 Excellence in Safety Award winner, and the 2022 New York Project of the Year.
“The Jeffrey J. Zogg Build NY Award is a symbol of a cohesive construction team,” Ben Robertson, project executive, said. “This group, from the architects to the craftspeople, epitomizes the characteristics that this award represents — substance, quality, and dependability.”
Developed in 1990, the AGC Build New York Awards program highlights the positive impact of the construction industry in the state. Today, the awards emphasize the construction team, not only the general contractor or construction manager, but also many others — the owner, architect, engineer, subcontractors, suppliers, and craftspeople — who contribute to the success of a project.
Welliver provides construction management, pre-construction, general construction, and design/build services to industries including health care, higher education, K-12 education, commercial/residential, and industrial.