This is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first.
02-28-2002: Update to company and employee info.
05-29-2001: Changed sites "look". Added Caribbean Business article.
05-15-2001: Changed format to frames.
05-03-2001: Site online.
These are the press releases we've issued over the last year. You may want to search for topics by keyword.
"It's a golden moment for Guillennety Ortiz & Associates, Engineers and Architects, Puerto Rico's oldest design
firm, celebrating 50 years in the business of helping the island move forward. And moving along, counting projects by the dozen, beginning with the
design of the headquarters for the Puerto Rico Industrial Commission (now the Ramon Mellado Parsons building of the P.R. Senate) back in 1950, then of such mega projects as the Teodoro Moscoso Bridge, the interchange on highways PR-52 and PR..2 outside Ponce, (which marked the completion of the Luis A. Ferre Toll Highway), and the Alignment Section 3 of the Tren Urbano;to name but a few: Not to mention countless other transportation projects, urban renewal developments, residential buildings, recreational and industrial buildings, residential and industrial developments, low-rent housing
projects, schools, Navy projects, sewage treatment plants, and what not.
It, should come as no surprise then, that all five of the GOA partners would deem turning 50 a feat to celebrate! Chosen site was the baI1- room of the San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino with partners Eng. Nydia R. Daniels Vigo, Eng. Carlos R. Daniels Gireaud, Arch. Luis M. Muñoz Lacot, Eng. Pedro J. Ortiz Burgos, and
Eng. Pedro J. Ortiz Santiago (co-founder of GOA, together with Eng. Luis M. Guillermety Cabrera) playing hosts to GOA staffers and friends, more than happy to share the
firm's track record of success, big-time.
The story goes they partied all night long (blame it, if you must, on the rhythm of maestro Mandy Vizoso and his orchestra). And just so yqu don't think it's all about partying
for partying's sake, a special recognition was given to employees who've been with GOA for more than 20 year-5, singling out Eduardo de Armas (49), Luis A. Costa and Eduardo Quiñones (45), Edna C. Benitez (43), Noemi F. de Torres (36), Pedro B. Ortiz (33), and Luis R. Cordero (32). Now that, and the scrumptious anniversary cake concocted by Lourdes Padilla, surely made for some memorable moments to last 50 more years. At the least..."