Timothy Krawetz, PE, LEED AP
Senior Principal, East Region Healthcare & Board Member
As a Healthcare Practice Area Leader and Senior Principal in Syska Hennessy Group’s New York office, Tim Krawetz leads a multi-discipline, multi-office team of over 100 professionals located in the Eastern and Central U.S. as well as Shanghai, China. He brings more than 30 years of experience in the planning, design and peer review of hospital and laboratory projects. His “quality over quantity” model has proven successful in delivering superior results for our valued clients.
Tim is passionate about bringing the best engineering solutions to clients so that they can deliver the highest-quality patient care and improve patient outcomes. He’s adept at challenging assumptions during brainstorming sessions, proactively provides clients with guidance counsel, and collaborates closely with owners and design partners to apply innovative design solutions to achieve a better operating environment within budget.
Three of his projects have won the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) New York Diamond Engineering Excellence Award, the industry’s highest award. Mount Sinai Rivington Behavioral Health Center, the largest facility of its kind in New York State, was recognized in 2024. Previous awards have included the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro and the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (The Wild Center), which recreates four seasons of weather inside of a single room. In 2018, Mount Sinai-St. Luke’s Hospital campus-wide renovation won the ENR Best Projects Award, as part of a four-party Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) contract.
Tim has presented both nationally and internationally, including at the International Conference of Hospital Environment Control Technology, in Shanghai, China. The presentation focused on operating room design, the impact of ASHRAE 170, and a comparison of US and Chinese design codes.
Tim recently served on the NYC Local Law 97 Hospital Working Group focused on the decarbonization of hospitals within the city. A graduate of Manhattan University, he holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Tim is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York as well as a LEED Accredited Professional.
In his free time, he loves spending time outdoors—hiking, camping, fishing and traveling. Tim once completed an 85-mile back-country hiking and camping trip with his sons in the lower Rocky Mountains.