Times Union: Irish high-tech engineering firm to make Albany a
U.S. headquarters
Published:
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 11:00
I wanted to share with you a recent article published in the Albany Times Union:
DPS Engineering plans to hire 56 people at SUNY Poly office
Albany
A high-tech architecture and engineering firm from Ireland is taking 5,000 square feet of space at SUNY Polytechnic Institute's new ZEN building as part of the state's START-UP NY tax-free program.
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A view inside the office space of high-tech architectural and
engineering firm DPS Engineering in the Zero Energy Nanotechnology
(ZEN) building at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, seen here on Monday, Sept. 28, 2015,
in Albany, N.Y. The company has chosen this location for their U.S.
Advanced Technology Group headquarters. They plan to create 56 new
jobs with help from the STARTUP-NY tax-free program. The firm will
occupy a 5,000 square foot space within the Zen Building. (Paul
Buckowski / Times Union)[/caption]
DPS Engineering, which has offices in Boston and Silicon Valley, is making Albany the headquarters of its U.S. Advanced Technology Group and is planning to hire 56 people and make $1 million in capital investments at ZEN over the next five years. ZEN stands for Zero Energy Nanotechnology, and the $190 million building, which will serve as a model for energy efficient and clean energy construction, will house several construction and engineering firms, including M+W U.S., the firm that built many of the SUNY Poly buildings and GlobalFoundries' Fab 8 computer chip factory in Malta.
DPS is well-known, especially in the Boston area and Europe, for its work on biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities for companies like Pfizer and Sanofi. The company already appears to be working on solar and pharmaceutical manufacturing projects in the Buffalo area, along with high-tech projects in the Capital Region, according to job listings on the company's website.
"By establishing our facility at the (ZEN) building, DPS will be at the very heart of New York's tech growth and able to establish ties with other companies in the region and the state that require the architectural and engineering expertise that we are excited to bring here," DPS CEO Frank Keogh said in a statement.
DPS says that the office in ZEN will initially be home to nine employees. The company plans to double it square footage at ZEN over the next five years and grow to 56 full-time employees in Albany.
The company will also be hiring as many as 50 project-specific employees across the state for construction projects. One project it is currently working on involves a bulk chemical and gas distribution process engineer to work as a client rep for "a fast-paced high-tech solar power company located in the Buffalo" area.
DPS was started in Ireland in 1974 and has 800 employees worldwide in 11 offices.
The company joined the SUNY Poly START-UP NY program earlier this month, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's press office, but the size of the company's plans for the region and upstate New York were just revealed this week.
The START-UP NY program allows companies that partner with SUNY schools to operate free of state taxes for up to 10 years as long as they create new jobs at SUNY-affiliated sites.
By Larry Rulison
