Photo By Sue Pearsall Safety First: DOB credits its enforcement and industry outreach on safety for the decline in worksite fatalities. Photo Courtesy of Several Seconds/Flickr, Licensed Under CC By-NC-ND 2.0 Out With the Old, In With the New: The long-overdue repair and modernization of existing infrastructure in New York City would cost about $47 billion, according to a recent study. Related Links: ENR New York Featured News News Wrap Feb. 24, 2014 New York Worker Deaths Decline, But Injuries IncreaseConstruction-related fatalities in New York City dropped last year, but the number of accidents and injuries rose, says Thomas
When Brookfield Office Properties unveiled plans to develop a long dormant site on Manhattan's West Side last year, it would have been fair to question whether the global firm would complete the $4.6-billion project.
The ongoing shift to bring health care services to the masses wherever they live has helped to ignite demand for new construction of ambulatory care centers nationwide. Even old, established institutions including the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS)—which includes the 263-year-old Pennsylvania Hospital—are heavily investing in outpatient satellite centers. The trend, one of several affecting the hospital and health care sector, calls for project teams that can remain as flexible with demand, schedules and costs as their clients, said speakers at ENR New York’s The Future of Healthcare Construction conference, held Feb. 26, in New York.While institutions remain committed
It took several months after Superstorm Sandy's devastating blow for the hardest-hit New York and New Jersey shorelines to become usable by the public again as tons of debris were removed and emergency repairs were made. The October 2012 storm robbed significant amounts of sand from beaches, destroyed or severely compromised berms and dunes and increased flood risks to local communities. But a new phase of post-Sandy work to make the shores more resilient to storms will begin as early as this fall and focus on roughly $2.77 billion worth of projects in the region that were federally authorized before
Superstorm Sandy's effect on many of the beaches of the East Coast was like a knife on burnt toast—scraping and scraping away, until, in some places, not much was left but rocks. But in a widespread and intensive effort that began last summer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its contractors began replenishing beaches and undoing years of erosion, work that is expected to continue through most of this year. The aim is to restore beaches to their original construction state. Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record "People who go to the beach will notice a big difference
Peter Gisolfi Associates, Architects, Landscape Architects LLP, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., has named Diane Abate associate. She joins fellow associates Klaus Kalmbach, Andy Rong-Hui Lin and Ronen Wilk. Abate's role involves master-plan and conceptual design development. She also will coordinate construction document preparation and all aspects of construction administration. Abate Related Links: ENR New York ENR New York Featured People Thornton Tomasetti, New York, has hired Tom Byrne as a business development senior associate. Byrne, who has more than 15 years of experience in the building engineering industry, will collaborate on national and international business development efforts.WSP USA, New York, has hired
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.
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