SPEAKER: Matthew Normandeau, Principal & Amarantha Quintana-Morales, Senior Project Manager
Organization: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Telephone: 212-271-6920 (Matthew)
Email: mjnormandeau@sgh.com, AZQuintana-Morales@sgh.com
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Location: Maggiano’s Little Italy
Village at Bridgewater Commons
600 Commons Way Bldg. E,
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
Social Hour: 4:30 PM
Educational Presentation, Business & Dinner: 5:30-7:30 PM
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SUMMARY: Health care facility managers face significant challenges addressing deferred maintenance and implementing critical upgrades to facade systems. These projects, while essential to ensure building performance, facility resiliency, and patient comfort, are uniquely complex because they must be implemented on occupied buildings with limited tolerance for disruption. The challenges are exacerbated by the often unclear and complex process that must occur to implement rehabilitation scopes, including adequately understanding the existing conditions, determining the causes of failures, developing remedial options, and defining costs.
This presentation will outline key requirements to consider as part of these projects, including applicable performance criteria that often impacts these projects and strategies to limit disruption and maintain operations. We will present case studies illustrating how such considerations have been successfully navigated. Examples include development of long-term planning strategies to ultimately execute large-scale rehabilitation scopes and interim smaller make-safe and short-term repair scopes that focus on promptly improving performance and addressing priorities in the meantime. Attendees will leave with an understanding of the best practices for executing small- and large-scale façade projects on occupied facilities.
Speaker Bios:
Matthew Normandeau is a Principal in SGH’s New York City division with nearly 20 years of experience in the design, investigation, and rehabilitation of building enclosure systems for new and existing buildings. His expertise spans the full range of enclosure assemblies, including facades, windows, curtain wall systems, masonry, roofing, and above- and below-grade waterproofing. Matthew leads SGH’s health care sector building enclosure practice and has consulted on complex ground-up, renovation, and expansion projects throughout the northeast. He frequently leads multidisciplinary teams on projects involving extensive enclosure rehabilitation, repair, and replacement scope. He is also the former ASTM technical contact for building enclosure commissioning (BECx) guidelines. Matthew brings experience, ingenuity, and forward-thinking to each building enclosure design and rehabilitation project.
Amarantha Quintana-Morales is a Senior Project Manager in SGH’s Building Technology group in New York City, where she has worked since 2014. She specializes in the design, investigation, and rehabilitation of building enclosures, with experience spanning historic structures to contemporary high-rises. Amarantha has contributed to projects including Shepard Hall at City College of New York, the Four Seasons Hotel, and several historic New York State psychiatric centers. An active contributor to the field, Amarantha has lectured and published on topics such as the sensitive use of modern materials in preservation, facade risk mitigation, the evolution of masonry walls, energy code compliance, and predesign for building repositioning. She is a member of the Association for Preservation Technology International and its Northeast Chapter and the American Institute of Architects New York. Her expertise encompasses rainscreen systems, fenestration, roofing, masonry, and waterproofing systems, both in historic and contemporary contexts. She is an advocate for thoughtful, technically sound approaches to the conservation and modernization of the built environment.
