INTERN: 2011 Urban Art Mapping Summer College Internship at The NYC Department of Design and Construction

Summer Internship Program The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) is the City

agency whose goal is to deliver the City’s construction projects in a safe, expeditious and cost-effective

manner while maintaining the highest degree of architectural, engineering, and construction quality. DDC’s

Summer Internship Program is an opportunity for a select group of students to gain valuable experience in

the architecture, engineering, design, and construction management professions within a public service

context. Students will gain hands-on technical experience through specific field assignments and a mentoring

relationship with senior-level technical staff. They will also have the opportunity, through a combination of

seminars, site visits, and training opportunities, to learn about the challenge of upgrading and maintaining the

City’s public structures and infrastructure.

Target Audience The program is geared toward students of engineering or architecture entering sophomore/

junior/senior or 5th Year Program in college, or in graduate school.

Length of Program The 10-week Internship begins Monday, June 6, 2011 and ends on Friday, August 12, 2011.

• Each intern will be assigned to a bureau within a Division.

• Each intern will be assigned a mentor. The intern and mentor may:

– work together directly, or

– meet regularly to discuss issues, ask questions, etc.

• Each intern will either be assigned to a regular project for the term of the program, or may rotate

through different types of projects, depending upon the availability of projects and/or the mutual

determination of the student and mentor together (with ultimate decision regarding the assignment

of the intern at the discretion of the Director).

• There will be a regular program of meetings/seminars with DDC senior staff and/or senior staff from

other capital agencies, e.g.

– DDC Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners of Infrastructure and Structures

– Office of the Mayor

– Other client agencies

• Some of the meetings/seminars may take the form of structured field trips to key sites/projects, e.g.

– Seminars on such topics as: “NYC: Service: “The Changing Face of New York’s Neighborhoods:

A Population Update” and El Museo del Barrio.

Field trips to significant projects, such as: “Reconstruction of Edgemere Urban Renewal Area-

Phase C1 Project”, in Far Rockaway, The City Hall Intern Tour, Central Queens Library/Children’s

Library Discovery Center”, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the Lion House and Madagascar

Exhibits at the Bronx Zoo, Wolfe’s Pond Park and Lemon Creek BMP in Staten Island, and NYC

Service Projects (Volunteerism Programs requested by the Office of the Mayor)

– Barbeque at Gracie Mansion

• Interns will also be included in any scheduled technical training that takes place over the summer.

• $375-$425 per week for undergraduate students depending on school year

• $475 per week for graduate students

Number of Participants Students will be assigned to each of the agency’s major divisions: Infrastructure,

Structures, Office of Creative Services and Technical Support.

• The Infrastructure Division is responsible for managing construction of the City’s watermains, highways,

roadways, and sewers.

• The Structures Division is responsible for managing the design and construction of City buildings

including firehouses, courts, cultural institutions, day care centers, police stations, and libraries,

establishing and coordinating design policy for the agency, and ensuring that design quality is

maintained throughout the project approval process.

• The Office of Creative Services handles graphic design and the agency’s percent for art program.

• The Technical Support Division provides Site Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Environmental Health

and Safety services to DDC’s other divisions.

Applications Applications for the program will be accepted through Friday, March 18, 2011. Participants will be

notified of results by Friday, April 29, 2011. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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A. Applicant

The Structures Division is responsible for the design and construction of buildings for 22 client agencies. The

Division designs, renovates and builds libraries, museums, cultural institutions, transportation facilities, health

centers, tuberculosis clinics, day care centers, senior centers, fire houses, emergency medical stations, courts,

correctional facilities, juvenile detention centers, police precincts, schools, and other buildings that City

agencies need in order to serve the public, assists consultants and DDC’s project management in realizing

designs that inspire pride in the City. In addition, the division is involved throughout the project life-cycle, from

needs assessment and scoping through consultant selection, milestone reviews and finally, during construction

and beyond. In broad terms it establishes and coordinates design policy for the agency, ensuring that design

quality is maintained throughout the project approval process.

The Infrastructure Division is responsible for the design and construction of roadways, sewers, water mains

and Pedestrian Bridges/Retaining Walls for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the

Department of Transportation (DOT). After DEP or DOT determine the need for a sewer, water main, roadway

or Pedestrian Bridges/Retaining Walls project and provide the funding, they send the project to DDC to design

and build it.

The Office of Creative Services has two units, graphic design and percent for art. The graphic design unit

prepares agency presentation materials, exhibits, print material and is redesigning the agency website. This

office is also handling graphics projects of a variety of types for many City Hall clients. The percent for art

program project manages commissioning and installing art projects in new City buildings.

The Division of Technical Support provides Site Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Environmental Health and

Safety services to DDC’s other divisions.

C. Assignments

D. Preferred Assignment

APPLICATION FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 2011

APPLICANT NAME SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER

HOME PHONE CELL PHONE

SUMMER PHONE E-MAIL ADDRESS

CURRENT ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP CODE

SUMMER ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP CODE

B. Information

Available after (date)

School

Degree Program

Major

Area of Specialty (if any)

In the Fall, I will be entering my year (sophomore, junior, senior, 5th year

program, 1st year graduate school, etc.)

Structures Division

Office of Creative Services

Infrastructure Division

Technical Support Division

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Please check your preferred assignment for the Summer Internship Program 2011.

E. Personal Statement/Application Packages

Please prepare a brief statement (no more than 250 words) describing your short term and long term career goals, and what

you hope to accomplish/experience by participating in DDC’s Intership Program.

Please attach a copy of your resume to this APPLICATION FOR DDC SUMMER INTERSHIP PROGRAM 2011 form.

Application packages (including application, resume, and personal statement) should be sent to:

DDC 30–30 Thomson Avenue 4th Floor, Long Island City, NY 11101

Attention: Susan M. Wuest, Deputy Personnel Director

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