Gotham Organization Inc.’s $520-million Gotham West, a four-building, mixed-use residential building that spans from West 44th to West 45th Streets between 10th and 11th Avenues in Manhattan, broke ground on Nov. 7. The 1,200-unit complex, scheduled for completion in 2014, is expected to create more than 2,900 construction and construction-related jobs and 34 permanent jobs over the next three years. Rendering Courtesy of Gotham Organization Inc. The groundbreaking follows an agreement reached in June in which key New York City unions, including laborers and structural trades, agreed to a 20% wage cut for work on the Gotham West project.Gotham Construction
Seven educational institutions including Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, and Stanford University have responded to Applied Sciences NYC’s Oct. 28 deadline in a request for proposals to build or expand a state-of-the-art engineering and applied sciences campus in New York City in exchange for access to city-owned land and up to $100 million in city capital, says the office of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Applied Sciences NYC is an initiative created by the city that is expected to help drive the economy. According to the New York Economic Development Corp., the new applied sciences campus will generate an
A construction worker died Nov. 8 after rescuers pulled him from wreckage at a Brooklyn, N.Y., condominium project under construction. Four other workers were also rescued from the rubble at 2929 Brighton Fifth Street in the Brighton Beach section, according to a New York Times account. Three were listed in stable condition, according to news accounts. A fifth worker who was working outside the building refused to be treated. New York Dept. of Buildings engineers, in a preliminary investigation, theorized that the building’s collapse could have resulted from workers not following proper concrete pour practices, says a DOB spokesperson.
EPA and the Dept. of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced plans last week (Nov. 4) to jointly evaluate the feasibility of developing biomass, geothermal, solar or wind energy production on 26 Superfund brownfield and former landfill or mining sites. The feasibility study, part of EPA's RE-Powering America's Land initiative, calls for EPA to provide about $1 million in technical assistance to the sites, Lura Matthews, RE-Powering America's Land project lead, told attendees at the PV Power Generation Mid-West & East conference, held this week in Manhattan. The study aims to determine the best technology for each site; the
Maryland has a soft spot for turtles. Not only is the turtle the mascot of the state's College Park-based university, it is a symbol of the high level of environmental stewardship demanded on its transportation projects.
The second phase of the three-phase Atlantic Avenue Viaduct project was delivered six weeks ahead of schedule. This phase of the $64-million project to rehabilitate a century-old viaduct was worked on by the design-build team of Kiewit Constructors, Woodcliff Lake, N.J., and HNTB New York Engineering and Architecture, New York.
The $72-million National Museum of American Jewish History, the latest addition to historic Philadelphia's Center City, features three levels of permanent exhibits and a large space at the top level for temporary shows and events. The museum provides an in-depth view of 350 years of Jewish life through interactive media, storyboards and artifacts.
Advanced technologies and difficult site conditions posed stiff challenges to the team completing the new $66-million Engineering and Science Building at Binghamton University last May.
The latest renovation of the Union Square North Pavilion, Plaza & Playground is one of several that the park, one of New York City's most widely used, has undergone since it opened in 1839.
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