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The $35.7-million project will also include raising electrical equipment up to the 500-year flood level. Rendering Courtesy of Hazen and Sawyer Powering Up: Arcadis and Hazen & Sawyer will construct three electrical unit substations at the plant. Related Links: ENR New York The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in Nassau County, N.Y., is set to begin work in May on a $35.7-million project to build three electrical unit substations. The design-bid-build project, headed by the joint venture team of Hazen & Sawyer and Arcadis U.S., is targeting completion in March 2016, says Eric Mills, senior associate at Hazen & Sawyer.Work

The team working on the plant's wet-weather pumping station upgrade consists of general contractor Tomar Construction, East Brunswick, N.J., and the Piscataway, N.J. office of electrical, structural and civil engineer AECOM. Work includes replacing electrical distribution equipment and switchgear and synchronous motor controllers, which will be replaced with low-maintenance controllers. The team will also service three wet-weather pump motors off site. Photo Courtesy of PVSC Doubling Up: Work will take place at the Newark plant's effluent pumping station and its wet weather pumping station. Related Links: ENR New York Work is expected to begin in "about two months," says John

While still grappling with issues resulting from Superstorm Sandy's devastating blow, water and wastewater treatment plants in New York and New Jersey have made a slew of emergency and interim repairs in the last 16 months to keep operations online and systems running. Industry executives say that further work needs to be done, however, to make more permanent repairs and improve resiliency at these plants, most of which are low-lying and highly vulnerable to flooding in severe storms like Sandy. Related Links: Bay Park Set to Start $35.7M Project in May Pumping Station Repair Work Expected at PVSC To that

Construction starts in New York City's public works sector rose a whopping 82% to $4.3 billion last year compared with 2012, due largely to the start of initial contracts on three major metro bridge projects—the Goethals, Bayonne and Verrazano-Narrows spans, according to a New York Building Congress (NYBC) study. This sector along with the residential market were major drivers of the city's total activity, which grew 11% to $18.8 billion, according to the study, which is based on Dodge data from McGraw Hill Construction, ENR New York's parent. Residential construction reached $6.3 billion, a 17% increase over the prior year.

It could be argued that 2013 was the year that Superstorm Sandy made state and local governments along the Eastern Seaboard take a closer look at alternative energy systems. Thousands of tristate households lost power due to the storm, a situation that some of those same households faced in major prior-year storms. Even as Congress continues deliberations over long-term tax reform, which may include certain alternative energy subsidies, analysts say that Sandy has given a significant boost to programs aimed at finding ways to make sure the lights stay on when adverse weather hits. Photo Courtesy of AWEA Related Links:

A few months after the ribbon was cut on two new schools in Newark, an ambitious multi-block redevelopment project has broken ground with three new apartment buildings intended to house the schools' teachers as well as other city educators. Rendering by TEKTEN, Courtesy of RBH Group Creating A Community: The 410,000-sq-ft project is attempting to fashion a vibrant mini-neighborhood with low-slung stores, homes and schools. Photo by Matthew Hochberger, Courtesy of Arup Making Progress: With two of the six planned buildings completed and three more under way, the $160-million project is coming to life. Related Links: ENR New York More

New York Photo by Sue Pearsall Off Track: NTSB ended its site probe of the Metro-North derailment in the Bronx, but work now continues off site. Related Links: ENR New York ENR New York Featured News NTSB Releases Preliminary Train Derailment Report The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released on Jan. 14 a preliminary report on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Metro-North train derailment in the Bronx that killed four and injured 59 others on Dec. 1. The report says the train, with seven passenger cars and one locomotive that was traveling from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to Grand Central Station in New

Critics say "good riddance" to the expiration late last year of a federal production tax credit (PTC) that paid wind, geothermal and biomass energy generators 2.3 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) for as long as 10 years. They contend that the wind market, in particular, has been around for decades and that it should not continue to be supported by the PTC if it is not yet self-sufficient. Photo Courtesy of AWEA Wind Worries: If Congress does not renew the PTC, say those who stand to benefit from it, the future of new projects and investment in these technologies is

While October 2012's Superstorm Sandy dealt its most powerful blow to the Eastern Seaboard from Maine to Virginia, it also affected regions as far south as Florida and as far inland as the Great Lakes region, according to a new study from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). But risk-reduction measures completed before the storm at several of the Corps' coastal projects helped to mitigate damage at those locations, the study finds. Photo By Dan Desmet/USACE New York District Fact-Finding Mission: In the days following Superstorm Sandy, Corps workers assess the impact of the storm on a beach at