Articles Tagged with ''New York City''

Boosted by transportation and renewable energy projects, the inaugural ENR East Top 10 Starts ranking represents $10.7 billion worth of investment.

Placemaking acumen and sustainability building practices lands the developer the ENR New York's Owner of the Year award.

Manhattan’s newest supertall building, 520 Fifth Avenue, rises 1,002 ft from a constrained site on the corner of a busy intersection.

Two sharply contrasting assessments of New York State's safety progress.

Sitting vacant for decades, the Endicott Johnson Victory Shoe Factory had deteriorated into an eyesore before the team returned it to a symbol of local pride and prosperity.

Managing construction of new pedestrian and cycling pathways at the water’s edge in Manhattan brought no shortage of challenges, said the project team.

Early coordination helped the Structure Tone-Turner Construction joint-venture partnership tackle challenges such as installing professionally engineered supported scaffolding in the theater’s acoustic ceiling and crane picks from the street that involved placing mechanical units on the roof and three terraces.

High winds and a tight schedule made replacement of two tower elevator systems and upgrades to locks, gates, counterweights and mechanical components on the nearly 90-year-old Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge no easy feat.

Working on any historic building requires time and patience, says Shawn Basler, co-CEO and executive director of Perkins Eastman. Case in point: It took 11 years to turn a 120-year-old McKim, Mead & White-designed former bank into the Fifth Avenue Hotel.

Legislation upgrading the New York City electrical code has significant implications for the safety of workers