Geiger Engineers
| Private company | |
| Industry | Structural Engineering |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Suffern, New York |
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Key people
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David M. Campbell, P.E. (CEO) Paul A. Gossen, P.E., F.ASCE (Principal Emeritus) Stephen P. Emery, P.E. (Principal) Timothy D. Mills (Principal ) Karen A. Lynch, P.E. (Principal) Keith M. MacBain, Ph.D., P.E. (Principal) |
| Services |
Consulting Tensile Membrane Structures Long Span Structures Sports Facilities Retractable Roofs Entertainment Engineering |
| Website | http://www.geigerengineers.com/ |
Geiger Engineers is a structural engineering consulting firm located northwest of New York City. Founded in 1988 by David H. Geiger, the company has worked on large projects throughout the world. Building from a solid foundation in long span and tensile membrane structures, Geiger Engineers has branched out over the years into a range of specialties from designing sports facilities to providing engineering services for the entertainment industry.
Recent high-profile projects include the new retractable roof on the USTA's Arthur Ashe Stadium, the new roof for BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, and the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Pool and Rink in Queens, New York which won the national 2009 AISC Ideas2 Award for Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel.
In addition to providing a wide range of engineering services, Geiger Engineers has been involved in developing new technologies. For example, in 2008 it was announced that the new Tensotherm composite fabric with Lumira aerogel (for insulation) would be used for the first time on the Dedmon Athletic Center’s new roof. “Working with Cabot and Geiger Engineers, we now have…[a] long-wearing insulated light transmissive fabric system that…meets performance standards and…[provides] higher energy-efficiency.”
In 1968 while an adjunct professor at Columbia University David Geiger was contacted by Davis-Brody, a New York architectural firm. With their design of a 30-story tall, air-supported fabric structure, Davis-Brody had won the design competition for the U.S. exhibition hall at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. They needed a structural engineer with the expertise to implement their design and they turned to Dr. Geiger. In order to meet the lower than expected budget passed by Congress, Geiger changed the design and invented the low profile cable-restrained air-supported roof. The success of the Osaka Pavilion led to a surge in the design and construction of air-supported roofs.
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