Stony Creek Quarry: Working with history for the future.
A Presentation by Darrel Petit & Tom Cleveland
Thursday, March 20, 7 pm, at the Library
Event Three of a year-long series to mark the publication of the book Flesh and Stone.
Darrell Petit and Tom Cleveland of the Stony Creek Quarry Corporation will present projects including the Statue of Liberty Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Columbia University and the new Chifley Towers South project in Sydney Australia and discuss other developments including their ANSI/NSC 373 Sustainable Production of Natural Dimension Stone Gold standard, and recent collaboration with Yale School Architecture to future envision transformations.
Darrell Petit has worked in all capacities of the Stony Creek Quarry since 1990. He has lead the team on many projects including, recently, the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Northwest Corner Building at Columbia University, the Second Division Memorial in President's Park, DC and the monumental pedestal of the Torosuarus project for Yale. Sculptor and stone consultant he has worked with quarries and stone operations all over the word.
Tom Cleveland, Stony Creek Quarry's Director of Sustainability, has spearheaded Stony Creek Quarry's leadership in Sustainability in the stone world. Focusing on bending the built environment towards a more sustainable and lower carbon emitting world, he is committed to creating sustainable social systems to solve environmental problems by using financial markets and business practices. Tom is a socially committed financial professional with entrepreneurial and environmental leadership experience.