Prior to creating Building Knowledge, Andrea Mones established and served as Historic Preservation and Fine Arts Officer for the Public Buildings Service, U.S. General Services Administration, in Washington, D.C. As the owner’s representative and architectural conservator for the modernization of the 1934 Robert F. Kennedy Federal Building (U.S. Department of Justice), Ms. Mones managed all historic preservation portions of the project. This work included the designation of those aspects of the building requiring restoration, the project scoping study, preliminary design and budgeting analysis, architect/engineer selection, contract negotiations, design, and construction.

This 800,000 s.f. building required two years for design development and five years for construction completion. The entire building’s HVAC and electrical systems were replaced. The executive suites were restored and where building elements were missing, replication was undertaken based on original drawings. The completed project (2005) successfully houses the federal agency in a state-of-the-art twenty-first century structure eight blocks from the White House.