As public sector work continues its downward spiral, regional contractors are filling revenue gaps with a much more diverse mixture of project types than in recent years. While several large-scale energy and transportation projects broke ground in and around New York City in 2013, most of industry's new construction was sharply focused in the private sector, executives say. The broader array of offerings, they add, is fueling industry growth and providing work for more firms that struggled through the downturn. Related Links: More Industry Forecasts Building Up Industry One Tower, One Bridge at a Time "The market today is unquestionably
Thatcher Associates, a subsidiary of K2 Intelligence Inc., New York City, has hired Kimberly D. Hardy as managing director. She joins Thatcher from the New York City Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development, where she established monitoring procedures for issues involving prevailing wage, minority and women-owned business enterprises and fair housing requirements. Related Links: ENR New York For More People on the Move Passero Associates, Rochester, N.Y., has made several appointments. It has hired Bruce Clark as aviation services senior Clarkproject manager; Tim Harris and Matt Newcomb as project engineers in the civil engineering department; and Tim Geier as intern
New York Photo Courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Energy New Direction: New York's highest court has upheld local bans on shale gas fracturing. Related Links: http://newyork.construction.com/ ENR New York http://newyork.construction.com/new_york_construction_news/ ENR New York Featured News Court Upholds Towns' Rights to Ban Fracking The hydraulic fracturing sector is assessing the impact of a ruling late last month by New York state's highest court that municipalities have the right to stop the practice.At issue were challenges to bans on oil-and-gas production activities, including shale gas drilling, that were enacted in the upstate towns of Middlefield and Dryden. In a 5-2 decision on
The U.S. Tennis Association is expected to name the construction manager for its $550-million-plus Billie Jean King National Tennis Center project in Queens as early as the second week of July, say sources close to the project. Rendering Courtesy of Rossetti Work began on the three-phase project in April and is set for completion in August 2018, in time for the U.S. Open Tennis Championships that year. The three-phase project includes building a $150-million, Rossetti-designed retractable roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium as well as two new stadiums on the 46.5-acre site. Rossetti is the original stadium’s architect.Phase one began in
Rendering courtesy of Hickok Cole Hickok Cole designed the new Reston Station project in Reston, Va., which broke ground last year. The 1.5-million-sq-ft mixed-use, transit-oriented development is located directly above the new Reston Station-Wiehle Ave. stop on the Metrorail system. Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic Top Design Firms ENR MidAtlantic Top Design Firms By Market Sector ENR MidAtlantic Prospects have clearly brightened for design firms in the mid-Atlantic region. As the economic recovery continued, several locally based firms saw business improve last year, including Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson; KCI Technologies; Whitman, Requardt & Associates; and Pennoni Associates, which is ENR MidAtlantic's
Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic Charged with developing a "living laboratory" to demonstrate energy-saving solutions in existing buildings and sustainable strategies in new facilities, the team behind the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation project at the Philadelphia Navy Yard faced a formidable challenge to bring together a wide variety of high-performance building systems.But creating the collaborative environment to achieve the project's objectives proved to be just as challenging. With completion scheduled for late summer, the CBEI team's approach is expected to yield a project with expanded scope that also exceeds targeted energy goals and stays on budget.The project originated in 2011,
McGraw-Hill Construction Analytics Total Picture A Sharp Pullback in Commercial Work Should Lead to a Decline in Total Construction Starts Non-residential construction starts nearly doubled in 2013, but they will retreat by more than 40% this year. Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic City Grill LIEBELTom LiebelPrincipal Marks, Thomas ArchitectsLiebel, who is AIA Baltimore's 2014 president, says he sees a growing interest in pushing development beyond the traditionally active neighborhoods."We see a renewed enthusiasm for moving into midtown and other neighborhoods that have been considered transitional areas in the past," he says.Liebel also says he sees particular interest in multifamily residential projects
Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic When the recession hit, leaders at engineering firm Pennoni Associates could easily have been tempted to follow a safe, conservative strategy. After all, the firm, which has been in business for nearly a half-century, had played a key role in building many landmark structures in and around its Philadelphia home, including stadiums, bridges and skyscrapers. But Pennoni decided not to stand pat.As many firms pulled back because of weakened markets, Pennoni went on the offensive, growing internally and through acquisitions. As a result, Pennoni revenue rose steadily, to $128 million last year—$107 million of which was
Related Links: http://enr.construction.com/midatlantic/ ENR MidAtlantic Gino J. Gemignani Jr. has been appointed to the board of directors of KCI Technologies, Sparks, Gemignani Md. Gemignani was a senior vice president at The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. until he retired earlier this year. He had spent 52 years at Whiting-Turner.Drake Wauters has joined Perkins+Will as technical director and associate principal at the firm's Washington, D.C., office. He has nearly 30 years of experience, having worked on more than 30 million sq ft of projects.James A. Martin has been promoted to vice president of STV. He is the director of rail vehicle engineering for
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