JFK&M Consulting Firm
Unique WBE Engineering Firm Offering Decades of Experience With Personalized Service

by Marc Connor

Since opening its doors in early 2007, JFK&M Consulting Group LLC, a full service MEP Engineering Consulting Firm, has had the privilege to be involved in projects of large scale, complexity, critical operations, and in diverse industry segments.  The Partners of JFK&M —Cindy Feinberg, P.E., LEED AP, Michael Jacob, Edward Feinberg, P.E., and Jonathan Michaeli, P.E., LEED AP—--credit the opportunity to work on these challenging design projects to the long-term client relationships and in-depth experience that they have developed over the years.  “The confidence and trust that our clients have shown in helping us build this business is truly impressive and for which we are extremely grateful,” says Cindy Feinberg, who as majority partner, qualifies the firm as a Women’s Business Enterprise. 

With a professional staff of 35, JFK&M has already moved into expanded offices and added executive leadership positions to accommodate its growing business.  Recently, Anchin selected JFK&M as a Winner of its ‘2011 MWBE Building the Future: The Fastest Growing MWBEs Award.’
Capitalizing on its WBE status with New York State, New York City, the Port Authority of NYNJ, the MTA, and the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, JFK&M has pursued and won a number of term contracts with City, State and Federal agencies, all of which require sustainable design and LEED certifications for new construction and renovation projects.

A strong leader in sustainable design, JFK&M is a member of the United States Green Building Council and a supporting member of Labs 21. A significant number of the firm’s engineers are LEED Accredited Professionals and the firm has completed or is working on Silver, Gold and Platinum LEED projects.  In fact, the firm received an ‘Award for Excellence in Engineering Design’ last year from the American Council of Engineering Companies for a full-scale sustainably designed infrastructure upgrade of The Foundation Building at Cooper Union.  Currently, JF&M is performing a feasibility study for the GSA on constructing a Net Zero Energy Building (NZEB) in the southern U.S.  This is moving LEED to the next logical step in sustainable design & construction.

Other notable projects at the firm include: a major MEP infrastructure upgrade for CUNY Baruch, a comprehensive condition assessment and renovations for NYU Polytechnic Institute, a 300,000 SF corporate restack for Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., property renovations for The New York Foundling Hospital, an award-winning historic preservation project in The Morgan Library and Museum McKim Building, a regional contract for a leading national insurance company, extensive building upgrades for CBRE Investments and Property Management groups, a new Women’s Healthcare Services Pavilion at Elmhurst Hospital Center and a comprehensive campus renovation/new construction project for a major New York Healthcare Institution.

JFK&M has also been involved in mission critical projects for large financial institutions in the tri-state area.  One such client required the renovation of an existing 65,000 SF warehouse into a data center raised floor environment.  The new data center contains critical and non-critical data functions equating to a 10 megawatt electrical load.  It was designed for flexibility and reliability and uses an N+1 mechanical design for the non-critical pods and 2N mechanical design for the critical pods.  A new 10 megawatt, 480 volt Con Edison substation was also built on-site to serve the increased demand in electrical power.
The firm is currently working on another 25,000 sq. ft. data center project located in a Manhattan high rise office building.  As part of the new design, JFK&M prepared a phasing plan that allows them to construct the project in stages. This included the required asbestos abatement work for the new data center while keeping the existing one in operation.  The design also included locating 3-2000KW generators on the roof of the existing building.