Thank you to our clients and colleagues for working with us to improve the built environment for the past 35 years! It has been our honor to work alongside you, creating lasting friendships and business relationships. As we merge with WSP, we are excited to provide you with the same team you trust and the high standards you are accustomed to, now with expanded capabilities, a wider range of services, and a broader geographic reach. We wish all our valued clients, colleagues, and friends a joyous and safe holiday season! Here’s to many more opportunities to collaborate in 2025! https://lnkd.in/gMVg4_dK
AKF Group
Design Services
New York, NY 16,124 followers
Through a commitment to optimizing spaces, AKF’s MEP/FP Engineering and Integrated Services power human potential.
About us
In 1989, AKF was founded in response to clients’ needs for a mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection firm that provided engineering leadership, better communication, and direct access to the best talent to solve the challenges they faced. We created a firm with a flat organizational structure that eliminated bureaucracy and needless hierarchy, allowing clients to directly connect to the team with the best solutions to complex engineering challenges. Our obsessive drive to be responsive to the needs of our clients led us to add a suite of services. By bringing our integrated field, design, and technical services together under a single point of contact, we further eliminated project friction and provided leadership from conceptual design through ongoing facility operations. Whether in workplace, higher education, hospitality, or healthcare, AKF’s clients rely on our depth of knowledge to drive solutions that meet the needs of today with the inspiration for tomorrow’s built environment. AKF participates in CANstruction, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Cycle for Survival, the American Heart Association's Wall Street Run and Heart Walk, and the Special Olympics Minnesota's Polar Plunge. Within our communities, we volunteer with the ACE Mentor Program, partner with the Salvadori Center, and collaborate with YouthBuild Boston to provide pro-bono engineering services while mentoring local students on engineering principles. On May 1, 2024, AKF joined WSP, one of the world’s leading professional services firms. The uniting of our firms provides expanded opportunities for our people and our clients to access WSP’s global network of expertise across every facet of the built environment while maintaining the focus on entrepreneurship and innovation that is central to who we are at AKF. Together, we will continue our shared commitment to cutting-edge engineering, decarbonization, and client satisfaction.
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http://www.akfgroup.com
External link for AKF Group
- Industry
- Design Services
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1989
- Specialties
- Engineering, Analysis and Testing, Building Controls, Central Utilities, Architectural Code Consulting, Commissioning, Critical Systems, Energy and Sustainability, IT/AV/Security, Lighting Design, Special Inspections, Fire and Life Safety Engineering, and Cogeneration
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Updates
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Welcome to our recent new hires! As we gear up for the holidays, we are so excited to welcome these new faces to our team. Can't wait to see what we can accomplish together in the new year! #NewHires #EmpoweringHumanPotential
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We are excited to spotlight another ACEC New York Engineering Excellence Award winning project: Mount Sinai South Nassau (MSSN) Central Utility Plant received a Platinum Award for Building / Technology Systems! We were proud to provide engineering expertise to keep the MSSN hospital running with reliability and resiliency. Congratulations to the project team on this well-deserved recognition! AKF: MEP / FP & Infrastructure Design Mount Sinai South Nassau: Owner HOK: Architect EW Howell Construction Group: Contractor LERA Consulting Structural Engineers: Structural Engineer VHB: Civil Engineer Shen Milsom & Wilke: Low Voltage, Communications, and Security Design AWA Lighting Designers: Lighting Design #EEANY2025 #ACECNY #HealthcareDesign #CentralUtilityPlant #PoweringHumanPotential
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Congratulations to the project team behind the NYU Rubin Hall Decarbonization, winner of an ACEC New York Diamond Award for Engineering Excellence! We are proud to help NYU reach their carbon reduction goals in compliance with Local Law 97 and Landmarks Preservation Commission requirements! AKF: MEP / FP Engineer, Energy Modeling New York University: Owner FXCollaborative: Architect AECOM Tishman: Contractor Steven Winter Associates: Passive House Consultant Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH): Façade Consultant Lightcraft (a division of AKF, Member of WSP): Lighting Design #EEANY2025 #ACECNY #Decarbonization #LocalLaw97 #LandmarkBuilding #PoweringHumanPotential Photo courtesy of FXCollaborative.
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Join Shannon Kaplan as she presents a webinar during the ACE Summit & Reverse Expo on December 12! "Building Sustainable Hospitals: Integrating Renewable Energy into Modern Healthcare Design" explores types of renewable energy systems that can be integrated into healthcare infrastructure and what to consider when examining options. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ez_b56hV #ACESummit #HealthcareFacilities #HealthcareDesign #RenewableEnergy #Webinar
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It was our absolute pleasure to contribute our MEP/FP design expertise to this transformative project! Read more about the upgrades to the historic 51W52, the only skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen: https://lnkd.in/erAY6CS4 Congrats to all involved on the prestigious and well-deserved Metamorphosis Award! #MEPengineering #51W52 #EeroSaarinen #MetamorphosisAward #PoweringHumanPotential
We're honored to announce that 51W52 has been awarded 1st Place in retrofit Magazine's Metamorphosis Awards in the Historic category! This recognition is shared with the incredible project team that made this transformation possible. Harbor Group International Vocon Shmerykowsky Consulting Engineers AKF Group Lighting Workshop Pentagram Cerami & Associates, Inc. Read the full feature in their November/December issue out now: https://bit.ly/3OmsMcQ
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Congratulations to Shannon Kaplan for being selected for Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal (MAREJ)'s Leadership Spotlight! Shannon is truly a leader and advocate for AEC industry innovation, education, and cross-training! #Leadership #AEC #EngineeringExcellence #EmpoweringHumanPotential
#MAREJ Shines a Light on Leadership Shannon Kaplan, Senior Vice President at AKF Group, is featured this month in our Leadership Spotlight. With over 23 years of experience, Shannon is steering innovation, inspiring her team, and leaving a lasting impact on engineering and commercial real estate. Read her full interview here: https://lnkd.in/eTYFiy-E #LeadershipSpotlight #WomenInCRE #EngineeringExcellence
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Having worked on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's original Hillside Campus expansion in 2003, we are thrilled to be back for this campus extension! It's inspiring to watch this project come to life - congrats to all involved on this milestone! #ResearchAndDiscovery #SciTech #LifeScience #EngineeringLeadership #PoweringHumanPotential
Steel is rising at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory campus extension, marking a major milestone for this transformative project! 🎉 This expansion spans over ten acres and will bring more than 380, 000 SF square feet of cutting-edge research space across three buildings. These facilities are designed to advance groundbreaking work in neuroscience, brain-body physiology, and neuro-AI—pioneering fields that will shape the future of science and medicine. Proud to see this vision come to life and grateful to the incredible team making it happen. The drone and timelapse shots capture the scale and complexity of this effort—stay tuned for more updates as the project progresses! 🏗️ #coldspringharborlab #constructioninnovation #milestonemoment #skanska
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Join Jeffrey Rios, PE at the AIA New York | Center for Architecture Office-to-Residential Conversion Symposium this Friday, 11/22! Jeff lends his sustainability expertise to the 10 AM panel discussion "Highrise Office to Residential Conversions: Design, Life Safety and Energy Considerations". This symposium explores innovative solutions in the evolving landscape of office-to-residential conversions. As cities grapple with surplus commercial space and pressing housing shortages, this event delves into the complexities and opportunities presented by the adaptive reuse of existing structures. We hope you can join as we discuss how our efforts can reshape urban living, promote sustainability, and enhance community vitality in our built environment! https://lnkd.in/eFprJjXW #AIANY #OfficeToResidentialConversion #SustainableDesign #AdaptiveReuse #PoweringHumanPotential
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