The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has awarded Skanska USA and its joint venture partners awards on two of New York City’s major transit extensions. The 70-30 JV of Skanska USA and Traylor Bros. Inc. has won the deal to excavate the cavern that will house the Second Avenue Subway’s 86th Street Station. Separately, the 75-25 JV of Skanska and Railworks Corp. has signed a contract to furnish and install finishes and systems at the No. 7 Line subway extension from Times Square to West 25th Street and 11th Avenue in Manhattan. Rendering Courtesy of the MTA Work is set to begin
The American Automobile Association (AAA) has asked the Dept. of Transportation to oppose the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's recently approved toll and fare hikes, saying that revenues from the increases should not be diverted to projects outside of the PANYNJ's transportation network, including the World Trade Center. The group says it is evaluating legal and other steps to contest the increases, which are set to take effect on Hudson River crossings September 18. In a letter to Ray LaHood, DOT secretary, AAA New York says that increasing tolls to pay for cost overruns stemming from real
Two adjacent housing complexes totaling 182 units and located on a vacant, New York Stat-designated Brownfield Cleanup site, broke ground in Richmond Hill, Queens, on September 7. The two projects include the 65-unit Richmond Hill Senior Living Residences and the 117-unit Richmond Place. The Arker Companies, Floral Park, N.Y. is the developer on the combined $53.9 million project. Rendering Courtesy of The Arker Companies Richmond Hill Senior Living Residences, a six-story, 62,500-sq-ft building will provide housing for elderly residents with an income below 60% of the area’s median income. The project is being financed by a combination of Low-Income Housing
Two contractor groups have asked a New York district court to look into a recent ruling in favor of project labor agreements between NYC and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC). The groups, the Building Industry Electrical Contractors Association and the United Electrical Contractors Association, filed a notice of appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for the Southern District of New York on August 31. The filing follows U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson Jr.’s ruling in early August that PLAs between the city and the BCTC, an umbrella group that represents about 50
Contract talks between the District Council of Carpenters and the New York Building Contractors Association are likely to continue through tonight’s deadline, officials say. NYBCA is the last of several management groups still in talks with the union, which reached tentative agreements with the Association of Wall-Ceiling & Carpentry and the Greater Floor Coverers Association on September 8, and with the Cement League on September 1. The five-year deal with the Wall-Ceiling and Floor Coverers includes a $10.65 an hour raise over five years, says Frank Spencer, head of the union. The carpenters hope for similar terms with the BCA,
KrallThornton Tomasetti, New York, has promoted Kyle Krall to senior vice principal in the firm's United Arab Emirates office. Krall previously served as a principal at the firm and is the office manager of Thornton Tomasetti's Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices. He has more than 22 years of structural engineering experience. Some of his recent work includes the New York Times Building in New York and the RBS Americas Headquarters Building in Stamford, Conn. Krall served as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation for 10 years and has been an active member
The District Council of Carpenters reached an agreement yesterday, September 8, with the Association of Wall-Ceiling & Carpentry and the Greater Floor Coverers Association, following a series of contract deadline extensions after the initial June 30 deadline expired. The deal comes on the heels of a separate agreement that the union reached with the Cement League on September 1. "The district council continues to make positive movement to reach our overall goal of reaching agreements with all of our association partners," the union says in a statement.A union spokesperson says contract discussions are ongoing with the remaining associations that have
The impact of the recession came on quickly for specialty contractors, sending them into a slump as they cope with a combination of fewer jobs and thinner margins. Although revenues remain below pre-recession levels, many of the region's largest firms are landing enough work to hold steady. The recession took its toll in 2009 as the combined revenue of the region's top 10 specialty contractors dropped 17% from the previous year to $2.32 billion. But revenue leveled off at $2.29 billion for the top-10 firms in 2010.For specialty contractor Donaldson Interiors, Hauppauge, N.Y., revenue is down, but the corporate interiors
NJ Clearing Clouds Over Offshore Wind Power? NEW JERSEY WILL MOVE closer to becoming the nation's first offshore wind power producer if a planned 24-MW pilot project off the coast of Atlantic City obtains its last permit and approval under a state incentive program. The firm expects both as early as this fall.Fishermen's Energy, a consortium of mostly East Coast fishing companies, has received all the necessary state permits to build a demonstration-scale, six-turbine offshore wind farm about 2.8 miles from Atlantic City, says Rhonda Jackson, Fishermen's Energy outreach director. The firm is waiting for a water permit from the
When the first visitors to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum enter the World Trade Center site this month, they will likely focus on the two reflecting pools at the heart of the plaza, defined by the names of the victims of the terrorist attacks. They are unlikely to miss the already towering 1 WTC structure standing on the northwest corner of the site, well on its way to becoming the nation's tallest building at 1,776 feet. But as much of their attention is drawn to the plaza and what used to be called the “Freedom Tower,” they might
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