With billions in federal funding augmenting construction budgets, infrastructure agencies across New York and New Jersey are fast developing programs to expand transportation, energy and environmental infrastructure and boost resilience and sustainability.
But the surge of projects getting underway could collide with major obstacles in keeping jobs fully staffed, on track and able to surmount key cost risks, regional and state officials told more than 400 attendees at ENR’s second annual NY/NJ Infrastructure Forum held on Sept. 15 in Manhattan.