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Celebrating 100 Years For more than a century, JB&B has delivered exceptional value through customized solutions for a vast range of clients and projects. Jaros, Baum & Bolles: Celebrating 100 Years Special Advertising Section

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100 Years of Engineering New York, N.Y. Masterpieces With over 14,000 projects to its credit, Jaros, Baum & Bolles is capable of providing a full range of services for nearly every type of building or structure, new or old. Buildings for which JB&B has served as consulting engineer include many of the foremost architectural achievements of the past 100 years. JB&B has been bringing buildings to life for a century, and it’s only getting started. One hundred years ago, when Alfred Jaros, Jr. and Albert Baum founded engineering firm Jaros and Baum, the Equitable Building at 120 stood as the world’s largest office building at 1.8 million sq ft and the was the world’s tallest building at 792 ft. In the past century, the company, also known as JB&B, has completed handling the mechanical and electrical more than 14,000 projects, including the engineering for that property, One first fully air-conditioned large building World Trade Center. Nor could he have in New York and the first radiant imagined that just one of the firm’s many cooling system in the United States. other simultaneous projects would be 7.5 million sq ft at Hudson Yards. Humble Beginnings to Jaros and Baum started their Achievement company on a pair of desks borrowed Before starting the company, Jaros from Jaros’s uncle, who owned a earned $18 a week doing such tasks as marble works company. They took a tracing drawings for the Woolworth break during World War I to work as Building. Hardly would he have believed engineering designers in the Navy’s that, in a century, the tallest building Bureau of Yards and Docks. They in the United States would reach 1,776 rebooted their business in 1919, landing ft—or that his company would have been work with the Allerton chain. The

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Shelton Hotel, the tallest in the world at & Bolles pioneered again with the first the time, came next, followed by London million-volt X-ray machine, for Memorial Terrace, the world’s largest apartment Hospital for Cancer, smashing the building. Despite a rough patch during standard of 50,000 volts. Come World the , Jaros and Baum War II, the Navy hired the firm to design partnered with plumbing and water the mechanical systems for a base in the supply specialist Frederick Bolles in Panama Canal Zone, including a bomb- 1932, becoming Jaros, Baum & Bolles. proof power plant and air-conditioned Tiffany hired the company to build warehouses, hospitals and barracks. a system to air condition its entire And the groundbreaking work building, which back then was a custom continued: the Seagram Building, Lever job, down to the air outlets. Jaros, Baum House, Denver’s Mile High Center, the Chase Bank Building, the Building (now the MetLife Shaping the World’s Building), Chicago’s Sears Tower (now ), the original World Trade Skyline for 100 Years Center, Bank of America Tower at One With over 14,000 projects, JB&B’s Bryant Park (North America’s first LEED work spans the U.S. and Europe, and Platinum commercial ), Hong reaches six continents. Kong’s Bank of China Tower as well as the , the Whitney  (1952) and the Met, not to mention complex  Seagram Building (1958) healthcare, , data center and  P an Am Building lab space like the new Alexandria Center (now the MetLife Building) (1963) for Life Science.  Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower) in Chicago (1973) The Next 100 Years  Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong JB&B believes that buildings should be (1990) more than a marker of the past; they should point toward the future. Indeed,  O riginal World Trade Center (North “engineering” means to apply science Tower 1970; South Tower 1971) and math to solve problems. That means  T WA Flight Center at JFK the company’s biggest achievement is International Airport (1962) often the latest solution it has devised,  Broadgate (1990s) the latest client whose problem it has solved. The firm also seeks the most enr.com/NewYork/SpecialAd/ May 25/June 1, 2015 | J 3 Jaros, Baum & Bolles: Celebrating 100 Years Special Advertising Section

Past Five Years  World Trade Center Towers One, 4 and 7  N ational September 11 Memorial & Museum  8 Spruce Street ()  Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park  Weill Cornell Medical Center Belfer Research Building  Mount Sinai Center for Science and Medicine  N ew York City Waterfalls Project  Whitney Museum of American Art   Botanic Garden Visitor Center

 John Jay College of Criminal Justice Baha Mar  Barnard College Diana Center Bahamas

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 Hudson Yards Redevelopment (10, 15, 30 and , Culture Shed and Retail)

 Cornell NYC Tech

 Columbia University Manhattanville campus

 Moynihan Station redevelopment

 Steinway Building at 111 W. 57th St. efficient and sustainable solution and intelligent buildings, and building renovation possible—in order to serve information modeling (BIM).  Baha Mar, Bahamas not just clients but the larger world. Of utmost importance through JB&B’s staff includes more than 50 JB&B’s 100 years is its clients,  Memorial Sloan Kettering LEED accredited professionals, and which span 30 countries. Many 74th Street Ambulatory Care Center they sit at the forefront of sustainability have worked with JB&B for decades,  N YU Langone Medical Center initiatives like master planning and and their relationships will also likely Kimmel Pavilion and Energy Building adaptive reuse, cogeneration plants reach far into the future. The firm  N YU New Science Building and greywater recycling, heat recovery serves these clients and their bottom and thermal storage systems, daylight lines by using proven engineering  Museum of Modern Art Gallery dimming and energy benchmarking. practices while also inventing new Expansion The firm is also an industry leader in designs for new problems. And to make  Metropolitan Museum of Art voice and data network infrastructure, sure clients are getting the best service, Expansion architectural lighting design, JB&B invests heavily in its engineers  Citigroup at 388/390 Greenwich commissioning, the latest fire protection and their ongoing education, guided by Street technologies, building management the philosophy that its people are its technologies including automation greatest strength. n

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