The New York School Construction Authority is planning the conversion of the lower six floors and cellar of the 95,000-sq-ft, 14-story New York Foundling Hospital�s Manhattan building, first built in 1988, into a new public school. Public School 340, located at the corner of the Avenue of Americas and 17th Street will serve 518 students in levels Pre-K through fifth grade upon its completion in September 2014. Rendering Courtesy Of MDSzerbaty Associates Architecture The project is in the design stages with MDSzerbaty Associates Architecture of New York as lead architect and will include 21 new classrooms on the 17th Street
Phase one of the long-delayed 62-acre Willets Point redevelopment project in Queens, N.Y., reached the proposal stage with the New York City Economic Development Corporation’s call for request for proposals. RFPs were sent to the group of 29 developers that answered its request for qualifications in 2009. NYCEDC asked the group to form teams and create a development proposal that will be due on August 12, 2011. The 12.7-acre phase one plan includes up to 68,000 sq ft of retail space, up to 400 housing units—35% of which will be qualified as affordable—a hotel, two acres of open space and
Construction on the $27 million New York Langone Medical Center’s Hospital for Joint Diseases project which includes the modernization of three outpatient facilities, the modernization of six floors within the hospital for joint diseases and the relocation of medical programs, patient services and staff from the RUSK Institute of Rehabilitative Medicine to their new venues is currently under way. Gardiner & Theobald of New York is managing the multi-story re-stack of existing services, the upgrade of mechanical systems and the ancillary facilities that will receive the Rusk Pavilion, the center for rehabilitative medicine that is currently housed on the main
Gamma, a 40-year-old curtain wall construction company with headquarters in New York, Miami and Quebec will be acquired by Far East Global Group, a Hong Kong-based building facade group. Far East Global Group has acquired a 55% equity interest in Gamma and together, the companies are expected to rank among the top two or three curtain wall companies in the United States and around the world, according to Gamma which will operate under the Gamma name as a division of Far East Global Group in North America and continue to maintain its headquarters. Far East Global Group said it expects
SPEARS Frank Spears was hired as president of Balfour Beatty Construction's Georgia division in Atlanta. From 2004-2010, Spears served as president of SG Contracting. Previously, he spent 30 years with The Beck Group, where he worked as managing director and executive vice president. Kimberly Riehn was promoted to the position of chief financial officer for Miller Construction Co. in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Riehn joined the firm in 2010 as controller. BARRY Thomas F. Barry , a senior vice president with Atkins in Orlando, Fla., was appointed director of operations for transportation in North America. Barry most recently served as business
A replacement design for the century-old Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River between Kearny and Secaucus, N.J., will receive $38.5 million in funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The replacement of the two-track bridge is intended to lessen delays on Northeast Corridor commuter rail service and increase capacity and reliability. Approximately 420 passenger trains use the current bridge each weekday. “The Portal Bridge is a major chokepoint for thousands of commuters every day and an obstacle in the way of our efforts to improve regional rail transportation,” said U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) in a statement. The replacement
Rendering courtesy of The Port Authority Of New York And New Jersey Upon its completion, the solar canopy will be the second of its kind on the Livingston Campus. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The Board of Governors of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, approved the construction of a $40.8-million, 32-acre solar canopy energy system that will be the largest in the nation. Rutgers will install more than 40,000 high-efficiency solar panel canopy structures that will generate 8 MW of power, or about $1.2 million in electricity, over two large parking areas on the university's Livingston Campus.
Article toolbar More than a trend, green design is an institution in the tri-state area. Universities, hospitals and other institutional clients are the main drivers of local large-scale sustainable projects. Fortunately for design firms, many of those sectors held up relatively well during the downturn as private clients retreated from development plans or were held back by limited financing. Still, 2010 wasn't without struggles. This year's Top 20 Green Design Firms list, based on green project revenue earned in 2010, tallied a combined $254 million in fees from green projects—a more than 17% drop from the $307 million collected by
Article toolbar Design firms throughout the region continue to suffer the pains of the recession, but some see signs of relief on the horizon. As with 2009, designers saw a dribble of work flow from private-sector clients last year as financing remains elusive. But ongoing public-sector and institutional clients continue to buoy the market for many firms. Public money is drying up fast, but some executives at local design firms are hopeful that a surge in private work could keep revenue flowing. Rendering courtesy of Shop Architects Barclays Center Thornton Tomasetti is part of the design team on the $350-million
Article toolbar When HNTB Corp. started a study of the Lake Champlain Bridge for the New York State Dept. of Transportation in 2009, everyone involved expected a standard environmental and design engineering review. But an inspection of the 80-year-old bridge's piers showed the structure was in danger of crumbling. Image courtesy of HNTB Critical Connections HNTB is handling preliminary engineering on the $1-billion Goethals Bridge replacement between New Jersey and Staten Island. Related Links: Public Projects Helped Firms Stay Stable in 2010 Top Design Firms Main Ranking List Top Design Firms Rankings by Sector HNTB soon found itself in the
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