The $260 million NewBridge on the Charles retirement community embraces a new cottage-style model for senior housing and was completed two months ahead of schedule. Photo Courtesy Of Suffolk Construction Related Links: Best of 2010 “This project was done in a relatively short period of time with a high density of construction,” says Robert Keaffer, project director for Suffolk Construction Co., in Boston. “There was a lot happening in a relatively small space in multiple buildings that are all connected together.” Suffolk approached the 1 million-sq-ft project, started in September 2007, as a collection of individual jobs, with hybrid teams
For more than three decades, the Jets and Giants have been just as much siblings as rivals in football’s largest market – the older brother crashing at the younger brother’s Shea Stadium pad in Queens for the 1975 season while Giants Stadium was being built on New Jersey swampland, and the younger one then moving over in 1984 for an extended stay at the elder’s new home. And after both scouted options to build new digs – the Jets especially hoping to finally call one their own – they ended up choosing to bunk together again, but this time in
When Apple rolls out a new product, be it the latest iPhone or a new Manhattan retail location, consumers expect something exceptional. True to form, the store Apple planned for its $26 million West 67th Street location was its largest in North America, more spectacular—involving more challenges from a construction stand point—than any of its previous New York locations. Related Links: Best of 2010 “As a client, Apple is extremely demanding—they expect perfection, anything else will not be tolerated, whether the paperwork or the process of construction,” says Shawn Taylor, the project executive for lead contractor Shawmut Design and Construction.
Most of the demolition and construction work associated with the first $93 million phase of the Atlantic Avenue Viaduct Rehabilitation project in Brooklyn, N.Y. transpired on weekends to minimize disruption to MTA Long Island Rail Road trains. Even so, Kiewit Constructors of Woodcliff Lake, N.J., completed the job five months ahead of schedule. Photo Courtesy Of Kiewit Constructors Related Links: Best of 2010 “We tried to accomplish a tremendous amount of work in a short period of time, with half of the viaduct open with live running trains and third rail,” says Wayne Thomas, area manager for transit and transportation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added New York City’s Newtown Creek to its Superfund list, which prioritizes cleanup and remediation efforts for the country’s most hazardous waste sites. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The 3.8-mile-long Newtown Creek, which runs along the border of Brooklyn and Queens, was found to be contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), pesticides and metals. One of the most active industrial areas in New York City was adjacent to the creek for many years. This is the city’s second site assigned to the Superfund List. Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal was added in
According to an analysis made by the New York Building Congress, New York City local construction costs have increased from .8% to 4.9% through the first three quarters of 2010 with construction spending in New York remaining above $20 billion a year. Nationwide, construction costs have increased between .1% and 7.2%. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Using a series of surveys in its analysis including Engineering News-Record’s Building Cost Index which shows that construction costs in New York City have risen by 3.3% in 2010, after a .9% decline in 2009 while nationwide, costs have increased by 5.6%, the
A contract for the above and below-grade construction of the $176 million, 180,000-sq-ft, Fulton Street Transit Center has been awarded to Plaza Construction of New York who will serve as the General Contractor along with Schiavone Construction of Secaucus, New Jersey. Rendering Courtesy of the MTA The $176 million, 180,000-sq-ft Fulton Street Transit Center is scheduled to open in 2014. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Construction on the center which is said to modernize this major Manhattan subway complex began in December 2008 but Plaza Construction’s work isn’t scheduled to begin until this coming February following the erection of
41 Cooper Square, Cooper Union College’s new academic building located on Third Avenue between East 6th and 7th Streets has been awarded LEED Platinum, the highest LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. The building has been verified by the Green Building Certification Institute and is the first academic building in New York City to achieve this status. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The LEED certification achieved by the nine-story, 175,000-sq-ft 41 Cooper Square was based on green design and construction features including radiant heating and cooling ceiling panels, a building skin made of perforated aluminum steel panels
Michael Sackaris, the former owner of Copiague, New York-based Nu-Way Crane Service has been sentenced to two to six years in state prison for offering bribes to the Acting Chief Inspector for Cranes and Derricks for the New York State Department of Buildings, James Delayo. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Sackaris, 50, pleaded guilty back in May to offering cash bribes ranging from $200 to $500 on approximately twenty occasions in exchange for falsification of crane inspections and operator licenses. Delayo accepted the cash payments totaling more than $10,000 and pled guilty to bribe receiving in the second degree.
Amid the controversy surrounding Park51, the Muslim community center and worship space in Lower Manhattan labeled the “Ground Zero Mosque” by its opponents, the young New York-based firm SOMA Architects last week quietly unveiled designs for the new 15-story building. “I think the location of the center has been overexposed and overrated,” says Michel Abboud, principal at SOMA. Image courtesy of SOMA Architects SOMA Architects unveiled designs for the controversial Park51 Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan, but the young company is looking to work with a larger, more experienced firm if the project goes forward. Abboud recently sat down in
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