With 48 years in construction, Torcon is a strong player in the tristate region with a track record of going after highly complex projects in R&D and health care.
The New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection has issued a request for proposals (RFPs) for an engineering team to help on a $2.4-billion, long-term research and development (R&D) program focused on greening waterways. The Green Infrastructure and R&D Program will use both public and private funding to increase the city's installation of green infrastructure by 2030, DEP says. This includes bioswales, stormwater green sheets, rain gardens, blue roofs, sub-surface detention systems, green roofs, porous pavement, permeable pavers, and constructed wetlands.The program aims to “significantly reduce the discharges from the city’s combined sewer system, which can occur during heavy rain
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled his long-awaited proposal today, June 11, on how to improve the city's resiliency in extreme weather events, like Superstorm Sandy, and better guard against the effects of climate change. The plan would require a hefty long-term investment of $19.5 billion, although, about $10 billion of this is already covered via Sandy-related federal relief funds and the city's ongoing capital program, Bloomberg says. "Because of the scale of the challenge posed by climate change, even a tailored plan scaled to available resources brings with it a significant price tag that will need to be
The U.S. Dept. of Labor plans to hold two conferences this month on prevailing wage rules for New York and New Jersey areas hard hit by Superstorm Sandy. The N.Y. conference is set for June 20-21 at Long Island's Stony Brook University, and the N.J. meeting is scheduled for June 26-27 at the Atlantic City Convention Center. Related Links: Lessons Learned From a Superstorm The conferences spotlight a major area of concern for some industry professionals who contend that contractors will likely encounter more DOL officers showing up at their sites to enforce prevailing wage rules. They say this will
New York City Transit plans to issue formal bid documents the week of June 10 for major reconstruction work on two subway tunnels that Superstorm Sandy heavily damaged. Prime contractors are expected to be selected in July with work set to start later this summer, the agency says. Both tunnels—the 5,000-ft-long Montague and the 1,200-ft-long Greenpoint tubes—sustained ceiling-high floodwaters that "corroded, degraded or ruined almost everything from tracks and switches, to signals and controls, to power and communications cables," the agency said in a June 5 statement.The storm flooded nine of the agency's 14 under water tubes to various levels
CCA Civil, a company of China Construction America, is the “apparent low bidder” for the Dept. of Transportation's (NJDOT) northbound deck replacement of the Pulaski Skyway, says Joe Dee, an NJDOT spokesman.
New York City homeowners, landlords and tenants hit hard by Superstorm Sandy will soon be able to tap into a new city program that includes grants and loans for repairing Sandy-damaged homes. The program, dubbed "Build it Back," builds on the city's free Rapid Repairs initiative that helped more than 20,000 families return to their homes, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a June 3 announcement. The Build it Back initiative is funded with $648 million of the city's $1.77 billion first installment of federal disaster recovery assistance. Photo By Esther D'Amico Still Standing: Many Sandy-damaged homes like these -- which
Homeowners in Breezy Point, Queens, face major decisions in coming months as the federal government prepares to issue new flood elevation maps and state and local governments begin to disburse Sandy relief funds. Located on the western side of the Rockaway Beach peninsula, Breezy Point was pummeled by Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29 last year. Some 350 homes were lost in the storm, 125 of them from a fire that swept through part of the community that night and the remainder in the 4- to 5-ft-high floodwaters that rose as the Atlantic Ocean on the south side met the Rockaway
In some of the regions hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy, utilities—including Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) and Atlantic City Electric in New Jersey; Consolidated Edison and Long Island Power Authority in New York; and Connecticut Light & Power—are putting prevention plans in place to guard against the impact of future storms. Related Links: ENR New York More ENR New York Projects While most utilities were criticized for their storm response, at least one, Atlantic City Electric (AC Electric), garnered some praise. In a recently released Sandy responsiveness study by J.D. Power and Associates, a sister firm of ENR
The 15 million gallons of seawater that Superstorm Sandy dumped into the three-year-old South Ferry subway station in lower Manhattan are gone. What still lingers are what specific measures the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's New York City Transit division (NYCT) will take to safeguard the station when it reopens. Photo Courtesy of MTA Submerged: Located on Manhattan's southern tip, the South Ferry station took on 15 million gallons of water. Officials are studying how to flood-proof it. Related Links: Sandy Deals A One-Two Punch To Big Apple South Ferry Terminal: Project Of the Year The $545-million South Ferry subway station at
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