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.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="648"] 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.