AWARDS/PRESS/PUBLISHED WORK :
December 2024: North America Business Awards - 2024 Best Woman-Owned Engineering & Archtecture Firm Award
August 2022: M&A Today – Global Awards – 2022: Leading Design/Build Architecture and Engineering Practice - 2022 - New York City
June 2022: Acquisition International: Best Female-Owned Business Enterprise - New York 2022 Award
March 2022: New York Build 2022 Panelist: What's in the Pipeline for Highrise Building (Esin Pektas - New York Build )
August 2021: Robert L. Wesley – Inaugural Teaching Fellow at Gibbs College of Architecture
(The Gibbs Spotlight: Esin Pektas - Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture )
June 2021: AIA New York LI WIA- Spotlight
April 2021: USA Digital Construction Festival- Panelist: Digital Innovation Tools: 3D Scanning
March 2020: NY Build 2020 - Speaker: "Building a Skyscraper in NYC"
March 2020: Ambassador for Women in Construction (Esin Pektas, Principal - Esin Pektas Engineering & Architecture - New York Build )
December 2019: Best of Astoria
May 2019: WBC - 2019 Outstanding Woman in Construction award
March 2019: NY Build 2019 – Chairperson for Future Construction Summit
March 2019: TEDx Talk: "Bringing the Rainbow to Construction" (Esin Pektas: Bringing the Rainbow to Construction | TED Talk )
September 2018: U.S. - Italian Business Council Young Leader alumni
March 2018: New York Build Expo 2018 - Moderator for Developing New York
February 2018: New York City Construction Awards - Judge
June 2017: Architectural Record: Architecture News (AIANY's “We Are All Neighbors" Explores the Implications of Resettlement and Relocation | 2017-05-29 | Architectural Record)
May 2017: American Institute of Architects (AIA) Center for Architecture Panel Discussion to Introduce Esin Pektas, Architect, Founder of “We Are All Neighbors”
March 2017: NY BUILD 2017 AIA approved Continuing Education Workshop Speaker: Redevelopment of Existing Buildings
February 2017: AVON Women of the Year Humanitarian Projects: “We Are All Neighbors” & “Built by Women for Women”
January 2017: American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist/Scholar in Residence
December 2016: NYREJ New York Real Estate Journal Ask the Expert Article on Green Roof Conversion in NYC
October 2016: NYREJ Professional Services Expert Article on NYC DOB Local Law 11/98 (FISP)
January 2015: HABITAT Bricks & Bucks article on Fort Lee Northbridge Park
March 2014: USGBC Green Building Council Storm Resistant LEED-Gold Home Design Competition Second Place Breezy Point, NY
February 2014: HABITAT Around the Town article on 30 Main Street Brooklyn, NY
November 2012: USGBC LEED Certification award for the DAS USA Showroom
February 2009: Crain’s NY Business Medical Construction and Design Memorial Sloan Kettering ICU Design Award for DaSilva Architects
May 2008: Golden Key International Honor Society US Presidential Inauguration Invitation to White House, January 2009)
April 2008: CUNY CCNY Best Calculus Finalist Award
May 2007: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission 2006 New York Lucy Moses Best Individual Landmark Restoration Award for DJLA (240 Central Park South)