Firm Profile

Relationships are the springboard. With open minds and open communication, LaBella builds rapport between people, ideas and visions. With Client Advocates assigned to every project, we guide you through the process with your best interests at heart, to build a solid foundation of trust.

LaBella Associates focuses upon the needs of our clients. Whether we’re helping you design a school, manage water resources, or design a road, you are working with a cohesive, specialized team assembled to help you reach your objectives.

Since 1978, LaBella Associates, P.C. has helped clients achieve successes through specialized architectural, engineering environmental consulting and planning services. Headquartered in Rochester, NY with offices in Buffalo, Hornell and Coudersport, PA, LaBella currently employs 150 professionals and has been named a Rochester Top 100 firm. Our goal is to help you improve what you do…so you remain at the top of your game.

Key Staff:

Salvatore A. LaBella, PE – Chairman
Sergio Esteban, PE – President
Robert A. Healy, AIA – Senior Vice President

Capabilities

At LaBella Associates, we deliver results for our clients: functional and attractive buildings, cost-effective municipal facilities, safer roads, and a healthier environment.

Architecture

LaBella currently employs over 150 personnel, including 16 licensed architects. We believe in maintaining principal involvement and are committed to providing principal’s time throughout the course of a project. Our time will be focused on ensuring that the client’s expectations are being met; that design concepts are being responsive to the project budget as well as the program; and that each design discipline has the resources available to successfully address the project schedule.

Civil

LaBella Associates has been assisting municipalities for over 25 years. Utilizing an integrated team approach, we are able to offer a broad range of professional architectural and engineering services in-house to towns, villages, cities, and counties. LaBella Associates assists municipalities with a variety of infrastructure needs including water, wastewater, storm water management, utility design, and planning.

Energy

LaBella provides professional and unbiased technical resources for the analysis, design, implementation, and management of building energy systems. We want to be your professional advisor, committing our resources to optimize the energy opportunities in your facilities and help guide your business decisions. As a NYSERDA Flex Tech Contractor, LaBella can assist clients with funding energy projects. In addition, we have 4 LEED Accredited Professionals on staff to assist with sustainable design and Green Building initiatives.

Environmental

LaBella Associates has provided cost-effective environmental consulting services for a variety of clients, including attorneys and lenders, developers, and municipal clients in New York and Pennsylvania. We understand our client’s need for economical remediation and abatement solutions within tight schedules.

GIS

LaBella Associates’ staff is highly experienced in delivering outstanding service to our municipal clients. We work with local, state, and federal governments and agencies to offer a full range of GIS services to our clients.

Our Environmental GIS program offers a specialized set of applications and processes for assessing, monitoring and managing the natural elements of our environment. In addition, our GPS Mapping Program allows us to quickly and accurately record large amounts of field data electronically, eliminating the need and error factor of converting field notes to electronic files.

HAZMAT Management

Older buildings scheduled for renovation or demolition often require removal of a variety of hazardous materials prior to re-construction or demolition. Our personnel have extensive site investigation and abatement design experience. Our management skills aid our clients in managing hazardous materials problems professionally and economically.

Mech/Elec/Plumb

LaBella Associates provides complete mechanical, electrical, and energy engineering services ranging from feasibility studies and systems analysis through all phases of project design and construction. Our MEEP engineers are well versed in new construction, renovation, and design/build projects for a variety of clients including industrial, commercial, educational, health care, institutional, and municipal facilities. As a NYSERDA Flex Tech Contractor, LaBella can assist clients with funding energy projects. In addition, we have 4 LEED Accredited Professionals on staff to assist with sustainable design and Green Building initiatives.

Occupational Safety

LaBella Associates’ health and safety team, under the direction of a Certified Industrial Hygienist, are routinely providing air sampling and compliance assessment services across upstate New York. Clients include:Industry, Schools & Colleges, Municipalities, Insurance Companies, Attorneys etc.

Studies can be performed in response to specific exposure concerns about a chemical or process, or as part of a comprehensive occupational health and safety program. Our CIH has extensive experience with Indoor Air Quality investigations, including mold contamination investigations and assessments. Our experienced staff uses the latest techniques and instrumentation to perform exposure studies and hazard assessments.

LaBella provides comprehensive and complete safety consulting services, from specific OSHA compliance programs to on-site training. We can help you set up and implement a Safety Management Program, review specific components or conduct an assessment of current policies and practices to identify deficiencies or areas of weakness. The objective is to provide proactive, practical and cost efficient solutions to all your safety compliance needs. Effective Safety Management Programs reduce the frequency and severity of accidents and injuries, reduce or eliminate your exposure to liability, safeguard the health and safety of your employees, and protect your assets and your profitability.

Planning

LaBella Associates provides professional consulting in Municipal Planning, Program Management, Regulatory Compliance and Development Review.LaBella offers clients a full range of planning services including those related to municipal planning; environmental review; funding and grants; and facilities.

SEQR

LaBella Associates has a wide breadth of experience providing State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) services to industrial, institutional, municipal and agency clients across New York. We have accomplished great successes with both small and large projects for a variety of clients over the last 15 years. Some projects have been very large, complex and controversial requiring coordination between multiple agencies, complex impact studies, and very involved public participation programs.

Survey/CI

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Structural Engineering

LaBella has provided survey, transportation design and construction inspection services for over 20 years. Most notably, our team members have extensive experience in bridge replacements, highway design, environmental issues, hydraulics, SHPO coordination, and public participation.

Transportation

LaBella has been planning and designing street, highway, bridge, and other transportation projects for over 25 years for city, county, and State clients. As a full-service transportation firm, our engineers possess the depth and experience to handle design elements typically encountered on these projects, including concrete and asphalt pavement design, retaining walls, culverts, utilities, landscape amenities & streetscape, traffic signals, guiderailing, lighting, drainage, pavement markings and signs, permitting, environmental analysis & remediation.

Helping Clients Achieve Sustainable Design

Sustainable or Green Design makes a positive impact on public health, improves occupant well-being, and makes buildings more efficient by reducing operating costs. At LaBella Associates, our focus is on finding “net zero solutions” for clients---net zero environmental disturbance, net zero waste production and net zero energy usage. Our design philosophy is aligned with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), developed by the US Green Building Council (USGBC).

Our LEED Accredited Professionals can assist and manage the efforts of registration, verification, quantification and documentation involved in a LEED certified project.

Experience with Energy Efficient/Environmentally Friendly Buildings

LaBella Associates has experience in the design and planning for Certified Green Buildings. The firm currently employs 13 LEED accredited professionals.

LaBella Associates’ management has an initiative to have at least one person in each functional discipline to be LEED certified by the end of the year. We recently completed a LEED Certified Building project with the City of Rochester for a new Water Bureau Operations Center. Working sessions were held with the Owner’s representatives and the design team in an effort to identify credits towards LEED certification for the project. Enough credits were identified for a Gold Level Certification rating. Tasks were assigned to appropriate personnel for further investigation.

We can apply these same techniques to the benefit of other groups wanting to evaluate Green Building certification.

LaBella’s multidisciplinary design teams have expertise in all facets of Green Building credit analysis. Our in-house certified industrial hygienist can pride analysis of indoor environmental air quality. Our Mechanical Engineering staff is experienced in modeling the energy patterns of new and reconstructed buildings and making recommendations for system equipment selections. LaBella’s Electrical Engineers can analyze the building’s interior and exterior lighting systems, including daylighting, to take advantage of LEED credits offered in those categories.

Our site and environmental engineers have experience in site selection, the use of permeable surfaces, brownfield remediation technologies and construction debris and soil recycling plans. Finally, our architectural staff has expertise in construction materials and finishes and adhesives that meet VOC thresholds using recycled and reclaimed materials.

Markets Served

Criminal Justice

Courts
Jails
Public Safety Buildings

Education

School Districts (K-12)
Colleges and Universities

Environmental

Commercial Lenders
Attorneys
Developers
Municipalities

Industrial / Manufacturing

Municipal

Towns
Villages
Cities
Counties
Boroughs

Public Use Facilities

Corporate Offices / Headquarters
Community Centers
Country Clubs
Fire Districts
Libraries
Performing Arts Facilities
Recreational Facilities
Retail

Religious Facilities

Churches
Parish and Community Centers
Rectories