Grand Opening of the Monseñor Romero Apartments

Six and a half years ago on March 12, 2008, there was a five alarm fire at this building.  It was the biggest fire in the city in the last 30 years and left nothing more than a brick facade for half of the building with everything behind it destroyed.  The fire displaced many low-income residents of the building who had been fighting against the owner over horrible building conditions and illegal evictions.  The building has been a scar on the neighborhood ever since, draining the commercial corridor of hundreds of needed customers while also forcing the residents out of the neighborhood that was their home for many years.

On Tuesday, November 25th, we are celebrating the preservation and creation of affordable housing with the Grand Opening of the Monseñor Romero Apartments!

SETTY is proud to have been a partner with Wiencek & Associates and the NHT Enterprise Preservation Corporation & National Housing Trust to deliver this project in time to return the residents home just in time for the holidays. 

Congrats to Debbie Gibson!

Congrats to Debbie Gibson on receiving an award for 15 years as the Executive Director of AIA Northern Virginia at the AIA annual awards event.

Setty's Portable Automation Controller

Setty's Portable Automation Controller... (PACDATA), deployed on site filling in for our customer's suddenly-failed existing Building Automation System (BAS).

Setty engineers learn about BlueBeam

Setty engineers learn about BlueBeam—a smart tool for creating, editing, and marking up pdfs. Thanks to our friends at Konica for beaming us up!

SETTY-Kaveri 7th Annual Charity Golf Tournament

SETTY sponsored the SETTY-Kaveri 7th Annual Charity Golf Tournament. This year’s tournament fielded 44 participants all raising money for Kannada classes for local youth. Mr. and Mrs. Setty are shown here distributing the first place trophy to the winning captain Mr. Chandra Gowda of CareFirst on 9/27.

Phyllis Wheatley’s building renovation project

Setty is working closely with the Young Women’s Christian Association - Phyllis Wheatley’s renovation project.

Sharing a little background information on Phyllis Wheatley, it is the story of African-American women with a vision to start a Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) for “Colored” women and girls in the early years of the twentieth century when such a deed was impractical and required great courage. 

The building was named after the poet Phillis Wheatley (May 8, 1753, West Africa – December 5, 1784, Boston, MA).Born in Senegambia, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven and transported to North America. Ms. Phillis Wheatley has the reputation of being both the second published African-American poet and first published African-American woman.

Celebrating the topping-out of Southeast Washington’s new Ballou High School

"Topping the charts: DC Mayor Vincent Gray, councilman Marion Barry, and Director of DGS Brian Hanlon speak at the Topping Out Ceremony for Ballou Senior High School. Setty MEP designs have been core to the success of this project.