Our Project Experience

VasCo is providing construction management for a $130 million dollar project at the Buffalo Sewer Authority.

Work will entail replacement of four primary settling tanks; all new piping, pumps and controls; odor control facilities; and a high-rate chlorination system. Working as a team with Arcadis Engineering, VasCo will provide full-time construction inspection, clerk-of-the-works responsibilities and oversight of NY State Department of Environmental Conservation and Environmental Facilities Corporation coordination.

VasCo is providing construction inspection as a subcontractor to Rodriguez Construction for this $2 million project.

This project has the NFTA replacing backflow preventors at five of its bus garage locations and bringing them up to code.

VasCo is acting as the owner’s representative for the Shea’s Buffalo Theater addition.

This addition, estimated at $12-15 million, will address several deficiencies in the current facility including: elevators and other Americans with Disabilities Act upgrades; additional bathrooms; and additional concession areas. This project also includes the $2 million rehabilitation of the smaller 716 Theater, part of the Shea’s Theater complex.

VasCo is acting as the construction manager/general contractor for a $2 million project at the former Will Poultry Warehouse.

Al Cohen’s Bakery and Chef’s Restaurant and using this warehouse space to construct production facilities for their products that they will be selling on-line. Work includes office space buildout, interior and exterior painting, extensive demolition, all new mechanical, plumbing and electrical and paving. VasCo will coordinate subcontractors and also self-perform concrete and carpentry.

VasCo was the General Contractor for a $300,000 roofing contract for the Western New York Maritime Charter School.

This project included a new metal roof for the gymnasium building and repairs to the existing EPDM (synthetic rubber roofing material) roofs on the other campus buildings.

VasCo is providing engineering services to assist with an Order on Consent for for Erie County Sewer District #4.

Teaming up with Arcadis Engineering, VasCO will be assisting the County with the compliance schedule and stormwater solutions. This District provides collection and conveyance services for portions of the Towns of Alden and Lancaster and conveyance services for the Villages of Depew and Lancaster. Infrastructure includes a network of pumping stations, an excess flow management facility, collector and interceptor sewers which transport sanitary sewage for treatment at the Buffalo Sewer Authority.

VASCO is the construction manager for this work which consists of improvements to the residuals handling system at the
Van De Water treatment plant.

Improvements consist of replacing the exiting plate and frame filter press with two new BDP belt filter press systems for dewatering of WTP residuals, modifications to the coagulation basin dewatering and blowdown pumps, distribution box improvements including a Sharpe Mixer, and WesTech thickener-clarifier Tanks with MRI tube settlers.

VASCO is acting as clerk-of-the-works for this project to complete the upgrades and rehabilitation of the secondary system at the Buffalo Sewer Authority Bird Island Waste Water Treatment Plant.

This project consists of installing over 32,000 Sanitaire fine bubble membrane diffusers in their aeration tanks, and over Sanitaire 150 coarse bubble aeration grids located in their influent batteries.

VASCO provided construction management for the refractory relining of a 50 ton iron vertical channel furnace for the manufacture of fire hydrants.

This $300,000 project used a pre-form casting installation instead of installing individual ceramic brick, reducing time of installation and down time, thus, improving production. Vasco also provided value engineering for the next furnace install by designing a shape that would provide greater production.

VASCO is working as a construction manager on the final buildout of the Nash Lofts projects, a $5 million project at 153 Broadway in the African American Heritage District.

Nash Lofts houses 18 apartments and the headquarters of the local NAACP, office space, indoor parking and a restaurant. VASCO will be responsible for the buildout of the final element, a minority-owned barber/beautician school that will teach minority students a valuable career trade.

This Building served as a monastery for Cloister nuns of the Dominican Order for 100 years. VASCO provided construction management for the interior demolition for this project which will change use from a monastery to a K- 8 Charter School

R&D Construction Management provided Construction Management Services for this 18,500 square foot facility that houses the Niagara County Emergency Services, Traffic Safety, and Code Enforcement Departments.

The building also features the County’s 911 Communications Center, classroom space for 100 students, and storage for all County emergency vehicles. This project included special requirements, such as a Project Labor Agreement and State-of-the-Art communications equipment for the 911 Communications Center.

The former YMCA building in the heart of downtown in the city of Elmira, NY had been abandoned for ten years.

Three different developers unsuccessfully attempted to bring this landmark back to life. R&D CM, the fourth, successfully converted the 40,000 square foot building into a thirty unit, independent senior housing facility. R&D was involved in this project from its inception and assisted in accessing block grant funding for the final piece of project financing and historic tax credits, and in contractor selection.

The Town of Amherst engaged R&D Construction Management for construction management and energy consulting services on this project.

This four-year project, which started in 2002 and has seven different prime contractors, was implemented to address the capital needs of the Town’s sewage treatment capabilities.

Partially driven by energy savings, the project entailed replacement of large, gas-driven pump motors with electrical engines with waste heat captured and used for domestic hot water and space heating through heat exchangers; new energy efficient lights throughout the plant, and direct drive motors replaced with variable speed drives on all pump motors.

All manual controls were placed on an Ethernet system, which ties into a single computer control room.

Various treatment facilities were upgraded with new roofs, concrete and operating systems.

Also included in this project was paving and landscaping.

R & D Construction Management provided construction management and general construction services for this 250-unit municipal housing complex in North Tonawanda, NY.

Working as the General Contractor for Sheldrake, a New York City development firm, R&D hired employees and engaged sub-contractors for all of the work on this project. The work consisted of complete interior and exterior rehabilitation (including exterior landscaping and concrete replacement) of 250 housing units. The timing of the rehab was critical because in anticipation of the project, the owners left many apartments vacant through attrition, but there were still 60 tenants that had to be relocated into new units as the work continued.

R&D Construction Management completed a 54,000 square foot Amherst Senior Services Center in the Town of Amherst, August 2000.

The original project budget was $8 million, with an estimated construction cost of $6.9 million. R&D streamlined the contract and value engineered the work to achieve a low contract bid of $6.3 million (a savings of $600,000 for the Town of Amherst). The savings allowed for purchase of additional amenities, including furniture and computer equipment.

This building houses a full-service kitchen (which provides food for the Meals-on-Wheels program), a dance hall, cafeteria, adult daycare center, meeting rooms, classrooms and staff offices. Completed August 2000.

R&D CMS directed the construction and construction management of improvements to Dunn Tire Park, home of the Triple “A” Buffalo Bisons Baseball Team.

This work was spread over three years, and in each case, the timeline was critical because the off-season was about five months, and all work had to be completed by Opening Day in April. The work included the following:

• Demolition, expansion and restoration of baseball offices, locker rooms, training facilities, weight rooms and batting cages.
• Painting of the entire exterior of the structure.
• Removal and caulking of all joints.
• Removal and installation of new lighting fixtures throughout the stadium.
• Installation of sanitary sewers and piping.
• Addition to the existing maintenance building.
• Demolition and installation of new entrance gates.
• Demolition of the existing right field bleachers.
• Installation of a new three-tiered “party deck,” and a large grassy viewing berm.
• The existing centerfield picnic area was constructed with new tent areas for private pre-game parties with new lighting, paving and landscaping.
• Installed the ‘Blue Zone’ on the first base side of Dunn Tire Park which afforded fans the opportunity to enjoy watching Buffalo Bisons baseball while relaxing at an outside bar and café.
• Performed extensive renovation to 38 interior Bison suites including: suite expansion, demolition, painting, carpeting, lighting and new ceilings.

This landmark facility, dating back to the City of Buffalo’s inception in the early 1800’s, was written up by City building inspectors for numerous code violations.

R&D Construction Management worked with City officials and provided construction and construction management for the work which corrected all code violations and reinstated much of the church’s former beauty. This work included a new roof, windows, doors and re-pointing of masonry.