The bustle across Columbia University's emerging Manhattanville Campus is offering a rare window on a mega-development that has not only reshaped a neighborhood but has also become a showcase for innovation.
Faithful+Gould has appointed Reza Amirkhalili as the new president and managing director of the organization's Americas business. He will be based in Washington, D.C. Amirkhalili has spent 25 years with Faithful+Gould, holding various positions including estimator, project manager, office managing director, sector lead and chief operating officer. Related Links: Engineering News Record ENR New York AMIRKHALLISkanska has promoted Axel Wingard to chief financial officer of its Skanska USA Commercial Development unit. The division invests in and develops office and multifamily properties in Boston, Houston, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Wingard is based in New York City. He has worked for Skanska
A rebounding market and resiliency work helped STV grow its New York regional revenue nearly 60% in 2014—rising to fourth in the ranking of Top Design Firms in the region after placing seventh in last year's list.
Revenue for architects and engineers in the New York-New Jersey region rose just over 20% in 2014, according to the ENR New York survey of Top Design Firms.
Owners stepped up their regional activity, launching billions of dollars of major projects in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
With work delivered through the DC Dept. of General Services, DC Public Schools is in the midst of a multibillion-dollar capital program that is not only addressing long-overdue needs, it is also delivering world-class K-12 public schools.
ENR Following a surge in 2014, total starts in the Philadelphia area will be down slightly in 2015. Commercial starts will cool off this year, but residential work remains on the upswing in the region.
Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic Engineering News Record As he looks at the asymmetrical convergence of concrete beams and a column that helps support the Smithsonian Institution's new National Museum of African-American History and Culture, now under construction in Washington, D.C.
If the construction industry is looking for its next generation of leaders, one of Dr. Mark Hasso's classes at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston would be a good place to begin the search.
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