DiDonato Associates Engineering and Architecture, PC

07/02/2026

Happy Independence Day! As we celebrate the Fourth of July, we also recognize 250 years of our nation's history, resilience, and progress.

Our office will be closed on Friday, July 3 to celebrate the holiday.

From all of us at DiDonato Associates, we wish you a safe, happy, and memorable holiday with family and friends.

06/12/2026

DiDonato's first Corporate Challenge is in the books! While the weather started out a little sketchy, it ended up being perfect for the runners. Our team did a great job:
Claire Birkemeier came in first out of our group at 26:43.
Vince Makowski at 31:42
Justin Lucarelli right behind him at 31:43
Madison Cox at 33:28
and Dan Schneider at 34:53
In fact, DiDonato ranked 7th in average time! WAY TO GO!!
And thanks to our spectators/cheerleaders: Matt Ziemba, Kevin & Susan (esp. for securing a great parking spot for us), Bill & Joanne Ratka, Tim & Julie Stearns. And thanks to Tim Stearns for doing all the cooking!
The event is so Buffalo, thousands of people coming together, over 200 companies, seeing old friends and making new ones.
It was a great, fun night. We learned some things for next year and it will be even better in 2027!
Congrats to all of the runners! Great job DiDonato Team!

05/28/2026

DiDonato has changed our email addresses from didonato.cc to didonatoassociates.com. The .cc address will still function for the time being, but please make changes to your address book.
For example: [email protected] is now [email protected]
If you have any questions about this, please reach out to us.

05/22/2026

On Monday, May 18, Mayor Sean Ryan and Congressman Tim Kennedy, along with representatives from the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and the Buffalo Sewer Authority broke ground for the Middle Main Streetscape Project, a $70 million project to redesign and modernize a 2.5 mile stretch of Main Street from Goodell to Kensington Avenue. The project is scheduled to be complete by 2029.

DiDonato is proud to be the designer of the project. Our Team includes:
-Watts Architecture & Engineering - Environmental
-Joy Kuebler LA - Landscape Architecture
-KHEOPS - Survey
-IMEG - Electrical/Lighting
-ALTA - Cycle Track
-Highland Planning - Community Outreach
-Kubit Engineering - Construction Inspection

From Buffalo Rising:
The project is focused on creating a safer, more accessible, and more connected Main Street corridor in Buffalo for residents, businesses, cyclists, pedestrians, transit riders, and motorists alike. In addition to roadway repaving, the project includes major upgrades aimed at improving safety, accessibility, green infrastructure, beautification, and quality of life along one of Buffalo’s most important commercial and transportation corridors.

The Middle Main Streetscape Project includes:

-Full roadway repaving along the 2.5-mile corridor
-New ADA-compliant sidewalks and pedestrian improvements
-Replacement and modernization of traffic signals and intersections
-Protected bicycle infrastructure designed for riders of all ages and abilities on both sides of the corridor
-Enhanced crosswalks and safer pedestrian crossings
-New street trees, landscaping, shrubbery, benches, trash receptacles, and trellises
-Upgraded LED street lighting and pedestrian-scale lighting
-Green infrastructure improvements in partnership with the Buffalo Sewer Authority
-2.5 miles of new bicycle infrastructure
-Improvements designed to better connect neighborhoods to transit, jobs, businesses, and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

Cerrone is the Contractor.

02/16/2026

DiDonato was honored to be awarded the APWA Western Branch 2025 Award of Merit for the Marrano Drive Culvert Replacement project. The Village of Depew received BridgeNY funding to replace the Marrano Drive dual CMPA with a new single span culvert.

The original schedule for the project was to start after school let out for summer and bid out at the end of June with substantial completion by August 29,2025. Due to significant delays in getting the construction contract executed, notice-to-proceed wasn’t issued until July 7, 2025. The contractor then proposed an aggressive schedule, started by the end of July and still met the August 29 completion date.

While a public meeting was not required for this project, the local residents were very visible during the construction period and the on-site inspector and contractor worked diligently to keep everyone informed on the progress of the project as well as warning residents of any downtime for utilities affected by the work. The residents were extremely pleased with the team's diligence, cleanliness, and communication along with the final project.

The Mayor of the Village of Depew accepted the award on behalf of the Design and Construction Team that included:
DiDonato Associates - Project Management & Structural Design
KHEOPS Architecture, Engineering and Survey - Survey & Inspection
JM Davidson Engineering - Hydraulics & Environmental
Terracon - Geotechnical Services
M&P Engineers - Work Zone Traffic Control
E&R General Construction - Construction Contractor

We are also happy to congratulate Don Poleto, Sr. Engineer for the City of Buffalo for earning the Public Works Leader of the Year Award.

02/02/2026

DiDonato is proud to be a Board member and active participant in BEAM. The BEAM robotics crew just had an amazing event in Corning. Congrats to all the robotics students for their hard work and their amazing robot! Thank you to Bailey Nardone and all the robotics mentors for supporting the students.

Newsflash! Our Robotics Crew competed in Corning, NY at the end of January. Known as the “Corning Qualifier” event, hosted by FIRST Robotics, students have a chance to compete against other young robotics teams for a spot in the state regionals.

This year’s qualifying challenge was to program a robot that had to function temporarily autonomously, before being student controlled, and pick up balls to place them in various chutes. The teams had multiple ways of scoring points and accomplishing the goal.

The BEAM Robotics Team rose victorious and earned a spot in the upcoming FIRST Robotics State Regionals Competition, which will be held in Utica, NY on March 7th and 8th, 2026!

Our Robotics students also were presented the Design Award, for their well-engineered robot!

Congratulations BEAM Robotics on your success! We are cheering you on for the state regionals!

12/24/2025

To all our Clients, Colleagues, Friends and Families, we wish you a wonderful Christmas. The office will close at Noon today (Christmas Eve) and will be closed tomorrow (Christmas). We are technically open on Friday, but will have light attendance. Fully back open on Monday, December 29.

12/23/2025

The annual DiDonato Office decorating contest was held yesterday. Everyone did a great job of getting in the Holiday/Christmas spirit! Congrats to our winners, 1st place - Julie/Stacy and 2nd place - Alex and Justin. All of the offices looked so festive!