AnA BertunA

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As Vice President for design and construction of
the 1.7 million square foot tower on the Hudson
Yards, Ana serves as the coordinator of consultants,
construction managers, MTA, and various city agencies with
an emphasis on construction
logistics and sequence, budget
and the overbuild coordination
of Tower C.
Since 2004, Ana has served
as Related’s owner’s representative
on numerous residential
projects including Carnegie Hill,
The Veneto, The Caledonia
and MIMA, at 42nd Street and
Dyer Avenue. Her responsibilities
include coordination with
consultants and ownership on all
phases of a project from zoning
analysis; permitting; preparation
and implementation of design
schedule/sales office schedule;
conceptual design through construction
documentation phase;
soft cost and hard cost budget;
value engineering; mechanical
systems evaluations; analysis
of exterior wall type; Attorney
General reporting, preparation
of soft cost budget; evaluation of
construction budget; trade scope
meetings; field coordination; review
of change orders; sales office
design and build out; coordination
with marketing department;
and coordination with Related
Management and implementation
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– Ana Bertuna
of operations. Each project typically includes the architect
of record which is typically the core and shell architect, a
design architect, an interior designer and various consultants.
Residential projects vary from all rental (market and
low-income housing); hybrid of
rental and condominiums; to all
condominium.
Ana joined Related in 2000
primarily serving as the liaison
between Time Warner Inc. and
the Columbus Center LLC
through all phases of the office
core and shell design and
construction. This included
documentation and resolution
of program and design related
issues; weekly meetings between
Time Warner Inc. and Bovis Lend
Lease regarding ongoing construction
coordination; following
schedule and completion of
Early Access Program, following
up on completion of core and
shell punch list; oversee design,
construction, and completion
of Corporate North and South
Office Lobby assuring that Time
Warner’s needs were being met
and adhered to.
Ana began her career in 1988 as
an architect advancing to Associate
at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill,
and earned a B.A. in Architecture
degree. She is also a member of the
American Institute of Architects
and WX New York Women Executives
in Real Estate.
hudson yards
Hudson Yards represents history in the making. Since 2001,
the City of New York, the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, and the State of New York have collaborated on
extraordinary planning initiatives to create a development
program that will transform the Hudson Yards area into
a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly, transit-oriented mixed-use
district. The new Hudson Yards district will accommodate
a major and vital expansion of the Midtown central business
district, as well as job growth and new housing for the
City’s growing population.
Additionally, in January 2005, the New York City Council
approved a comprehensive rezoning of the Hudson Yards
that will transform this area into a vibrant, medium to high
density extension of the Midtown business district with
residential, cultural, hotel, and retail uses and substantial
new open space and parkland.
The rezoning allows for:
• 24 million square feet of new office space
• 13,500 new housing units, including almost 4,000 affordable
units
• 1 million square feet of new retail space
• 2 million square feet of new hotels, including a new
“although it’s a
large scale
project, we
are bringing
hudson yards
down to the
human scale.
it’s not just
about erecting
buildings, it’s
about creating a
neighborhood.”
– Ana
headquarters hotel for the Javits Convention Center
Further, in December 2009, the New York City Council
approved a comprehensive rezoning of the Western Rail
Yard that will transform this open air railroad storage yard
into a vibrant, transit-oriented, mixed-use development
with approximately 5,000 apartments, office, hotel, retail,
cultural and community facility, and parking uses, and 5.45
acres of public open space
Ana, herself, is responsible for the management of Tower
C, which will rise 950 feet comprised of 50 stories. The
first building to go up in Hudson Yards, Ana relishes the
ability to build an entire neighborhood over a storage yard
platform, similar to Park Avenue,” she says. Going 30 feet
down into the site, construction will begin in April, 2012,
with a target completion of June, 2015. Tower C will also
include 1.7 million rentable square feet, 29-passenger elevators,
amenity floors at 18’ slab-to-slab and 14’ ceiling height,
45’ lease span core to skin, and a curtain wall with Low
E high performance glazing. The tower is also targeting
LEED Gold certification. “You have to have a class A team
to make this all work, and we do,” Ana says.
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MIMA
MiMA is a stunning new 63-story mixed-use tower soaring 638 feet
in the air providing two distinct residential opportunities. MiMA
Rentals offers an unmatched luxury rental lifestyle on floors 7 to
50 and One MiMA Tower offers a collection of spectacular condominiums
offering Five Star Living® on floors 51 to 63.
Attaining LEED Silver certification, MiMA’s commitment to
healthy living is all exemplified in its array of health, recreation and
entertainment facilities that include:
“mima’s original
design was very
different and its
transitions required
effortless
collaboration.”
– Ana
• Three lushly landscaped outdoor terraces with private dining
pods and barbeque facilities encompassing over 14,000 square feet
of outdoor space
• Two screening spaces, one indoor and one outdoor
• Private residents-only fitness center by Equinox, an 18,000
square complex featuring a full suite of cardio and weight training
equipment, steam rooms and sauna, a full-size basketball court
that can also serve as four 1/2 courts or a volleyball court, a heated,
glass-enclosed indoor lap pool, boxing facilities and a pilates/yoga/
stretching room
• Two private party rooms for all your entertaining needs
• Professional catering kitchens to service indoor and outdoor
entertaining spaces or in-house entertaining
• Tech: an internet café and business center equipped with iMac
computers, a kitchenette and coffee bar
• Meet: a quintessential club room and resident’s lounge with
a cozy island fireplace and comfortable seating with a glass wall
overlooking the city
• Game: a fully equipped game room with card and billards tables
and electronic gaming
• Residents-only Dog City
• Bicycle and resident storage
Along with the residential offerings, MiMA includes Signature
Center, the new Frank Gehry-designed home of the acclaimed
Signature Theatre Company that presents the working of leading
playwrights in all stages of their careers; YOTEL New York, an
innovative hotel with on-site restaurant, bars and lounges; groundfloor
retail; and convenient on-site parking. “The buildings’s
amenity spaces reflect the needs of a changing culture,” Ana notes.
“By combining a hotel with a residential tower along with a theater,
residents feel like they are part of a community…just like with Hudson
Yards, but on a smaller scale.”
“This projecT reflecTs The needs
of our changing demographic.”
– Ana
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“as a multi-use development,
the interior design reflects a
state-of-the-art mentality,
and its magnificent lobby
clearly reflects this.”
– Ana
Azure, rising 34 stories, is the Upper East Side’s newest luxury residential tower, located at
333 East 91st Street on the corner of First Avenue.
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