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Vincent Restivo and Nick Pedlow joined My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Career Day, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at Saunders Trades and Technical High School in Yonkers, New York. They spoke to the youth about pursuing a career in Engineering.

As part of the MBK movement, the City of Yonkers joins 250 cities and towns, businesses, and foundations across the country that are taking important steps to connect young people to mentoring, support networks, and the skills needed to find a good job, go to college and enjoy successful lives.

BGA partners with Pleasantville High School on an internship program that annually welcomes a High School student considering a career in engineering to our office for several weeks prior to graduation.  The student works alongside our engineers gaining real world experience.

We also hire rising college seniors each summer from accredited engineering programs as engineering interns.  Many of our own interns have joined us as full-time engineers upon graduation.

Our interns learn the use of computer programs for design and drawing production such as Bluebeam, Carrier Hap, AutoCAD and Revit.

KG+D and BGA collaborated with Nyack Union Free School District to renovate and redesign their libraries into Next Generation Global Learning Commons.

The goal of the Nyack Middle School project was to create a central hub that  could be utilized for research, production, professional and curriculum development, and school community functions by creating a suite of flexible, open, and inviting spaces. It is truly a next generation learning environment.

The Justice Sonia Sotomayor Community School, a newly constructed, 82,000 sq ft, 4-story, all electric sustainable building — will house approximately 675 pre-K to 8.  The school will offer a medical clinic, dental and eye-care services, providing services to families in the community.

Barile Gallagher & Associates was an integral part of the school project team.  We assisted the district and our architectural partner, KG+G Architects, PC, with great emphasis on the quality of their learning environment and the community.  All new state-of-the-art high efficiency HVAC, Plumbing, and Electrical systems complement the student learning experience.

(David Lamb Photography)

On earning his Professional Engineer’s License and being named an Associate with BGA.

Nick has steadily increased his knowledge and sought out additional responsibilities since joining us as an undergrad intern in 2016.  He is a trusted client point of contact, project manager, and mechanical project engineer.  Nick has become a key leader and mentor to our junior engineers.  He is currently leading multiple projects in the public and private school sectors as well as fire departments and senior and special needs facilities.

On being named a Principal with BGA.

Vince joined the firm in 1998 as a senior electrical engineer.  He has been our Electrical Department Head for many years and most recently a Senior Associate.  Vince is a trusted advisor and BGA point of contact for many of our clients.  He has spearheaded our entry into the Solar Energy, Battery Storage (BESS), Bus Electrification and Movie Studio markets.  He continues his role leading our electrical department on our K-12 School, Higher Education, Municipal Services, House of Worship, Multi-Family and Commercial projects.  We are very excited to have him help lead our firm through its fifth decade of engineering excellence!

Designing (and building) a sustainable future!

Our newly completed headquarters in Pleasantville, NY shows that we “walk the walk”. It features a super-insulated envelope, lots of northern glass for day lighting and views, ultra-high efficiency HVAC and plumbing, LED lighting throughout, roof mounted solar electric generation and native plantings. There’s a bus stop out front and a train station a block away. Now that’s sustainable!