Principals Nanni and Osman Attend ACEC Awards Gala

DeSimone’s excellent work on the spectacular MSC Miami Cruise Terminal and the transformative adaptive reuse of the historic Terminal Warehouse in NYC was celebrated this past weekend at the ACEC NY 59th Annual Engineering Excellence Awards Gala in New York City.  Principals Danilo Nanni, PE, PSI, and Ahmed Osman, PE, accepted the awards on behalf of DeSimone and the project teams.

The 492,000 SF MSC Miami Cruise Terminal won the Platinum Award for Structural Systems. Currently the largest passenger cruise terminal in the world, it has the capacity to berth three ships and welcome 36,000 passengers a day. The creation of this highly sustainable, resilient, and aesthetically iconic facility in Port Miami featured critical, close collaboration between our exceptional structural engineering and façade and building envelope teams.

Winner of the Silver Award for Structural Systems, our Terminal Warehouse project team faced a challenging structural mix of existing timber, steel, and concrete—all wrapped in a Landmarked façade—brought innovative engineering solutions and a commitment to sustainability to helping revitalize and expand Terminal Warehouse in a way that honors its place in NYC’s past and future.

Congratulations to our MSC team, led by Principals, Danilo Nanni, PE, PSI, Ahmed Osman, PE, William O’Donnell, PE, FRSE, SI, Rok Lee, AIA, and Associate Principal, Benjamin Reich, AIA, and our project client and partners, MSC Cruises, Fincantieri, Langan, Arquitectonica, Kimley Horn, and Atkins Realis, well as to our Terminal Warehouse team, led by Managing Principal Mark Plechaty, PE, and Associate Principal Rudy Medina, PE, along with our project clients and partners parters L&L Holding Company, Columbia Property Trust, Hill Capital Partners, COOKFOX Architects, Normandy Real Estate, Derive Engineering Services LLC, Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, New Line Structures & Development LLC, and Platform Solutions.

Learn more about Terminal Warehouse here.

Learn more about MSC Miami Cruises Terminal here.