Education

Graduate courses in Mechanical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1985, University of Illinois, Chicago

Experience

Mr. Tyson plays a key role on Kirkegaard’s project team, working to develop the critical mechanical systems, noise, and sound isolation components of each project. Recent experience includes the Music Center at Strathmore, a new 2,000-seat hall near Washington D.C. that will serve as a second home for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, LSO St Luke’s, a rehearsal, performance and New Media production venue for the London Symphony Orchestra; acoustic renovations of London’s Barbican Concert Hall; the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University in Atlanta, GA; noise and vibration control for mechanical renovations at the Jesse Jones Hall for the Performing Arts in Houston, TX; the Benedict Music Tent in Aspen, CO; High Point University’s Hayworth Fine Arts Center; Regent University School of Communication and the Arts in Virginia Beach, VA; McIntyre Hall at the Skagit Valley Performing Arts Center in Mount Vernon, WA; Pressure Point Recording Studios in Chicago, IL; and the renovation of Curtis Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music Philadelphia, PA.

Current projects include mechanical noise and vibration control design for the new Atlanta Symphony Center in Atlanta, GA, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY.

Professional Membership

He is a member of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Technical Committee on Noise and Vibration Control; the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; The Construction Specifications Institute, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He also serves as president of the board of directors of his local cable access television station in a suburb of Chicago. He has been a licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois since 1990.