BALTIMORE: Architects Niranjan Singh Sammi has been named Vice President and elected to the Board of Directors at Meyers and D’Aleo, Baltimore’s third largest architectural, planning interior design firm.
Mr. Sammi joined Meyers and D’Aleo in 1984. His responsibilities include project team management, construction system analysis, cost control and monitoring and development of quality standards for production. Interpretation of various building codes is one of his specialties. He is also responsible for directing the $35 million mix dues development project called Scarlet Place at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, which is currently under construction.
Additionally, Mr. Sammi has managed the $5.5 million expansion to Martin Marietta’s research facility and the recently completed historic renovation of Baltimore’s oldest hotel The Lord Baltimore Hotel.
Although having worked other major US, firms in recent years, Mr, Sammi is also well versed with major international construction systems. He worked with the metric system while assisting Le Corbusier on the design of the Capital at Chandigarh, India, where he has lived, was trained in France for metric construction systems and helped implement the metric transition in India in the early 1960’s, He personally planned the largest industrial development sector for the Punjab and administered the construction management for fast tracking the UN regional headquarters in New Delhi. In addition to being an authority in construction, Mr. Sammi possesses a thorough knowledge of structural design in steel’ as well as reinforced concrete, He is a standing member of the Construction Specification Institute of America A longtime resident of the mid-Atlantic region, Mr. Sammi is an active community worker. As only ‘one example, he is a past Chairman of the Board of India Forum, Inc., a nonprofit minority organization with its origin in the Indian subcontinent. He lives on a farm in Northern Baltimore County ‘with his wife and three children.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 21, 1986
