Work has begun on the 60,000-sq-ft Battery Park City Community Center located at the tip of Liberty Luxe and Liberty Green high-rise residential towers on North End Avenue in Downtown Manhattan. The facility which is being constructed by Stalco Construction of Islandia, New York aims to achieve LEED Platinum certification and will consist of a main lobby, adult swimming pool, children’s pool, gymnasium and fitness center, theater/auditorium, dance studios, classrooms, offices, lockers rooms, a cafeteria, kitchen, bathrooms, and storage and equipment rooms. Green design features and leading edge technological solutions that will be incorporated into the community center include light
The construction of a new $10-billion nuclear reactor in Maryland seem to be dead after Constellation Energy told the Dept. of Energy that it is no longer interested in negotiating a federal loan guarantee to support the project.
In an announcement that could jump-start offshore wind development along the Atlantic seaboard, Google and investment firms Good Energies, New York, and Marubeni Corp., Tokyo, said Oct. 12 that they are backing the development of a 350-mile underwater high-voltage DC transmission line from of Northern New Jersey to Norfolk, Va.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today killed the $8.7 billion Trans-Hudson River passenger rail tunnel project that was expected to double commuter train capacity between New Jersey and Manhattan. Christie said he feared cost overruns on the Access to the Region�s Core (ARC) project could cost the state between $2 billion and $5 billion, despite commitments of $3 billion each from the Federal Transit Administration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. �I will not allow taxpayers to fund projects that run over budget with no clear way of how these costs will be paid for,� Christie
The AECOM Technology Corp. acquisition juggernaut, running now for at least five years, is showing few signs of slowing down, despite the recession. The Los Angeles-based engineer said on Aug. 5 that it would spend a total of nearly $680 million to buy two more companies, less than a month after its $245-million purchase of Tishman Construction Co. propelled the firm deeper into the construction management business. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" AECOM announced an agreement to acquire Davis Langdon, a U.K.-based cost and project management consultant, for $324 million. The much-rumored purchase is set to add 2,800 global
A year ago, signs of the construction market’s collapse were as clear as a crisp autumn day – backlogs were drying up, revenues were swept away, sputtering projects went dormant, and new work was nowhere on the bare landscape. And in the midst of that chill in November 2009, Structure Tone, a New York contractor with a $3 billion book, jumped on an acquisition of L.F. Driscoll, a Philadelphia market leader with $650 million in work. Most market observers say the construction sector’s swoon actually opened a prime season of mergers and acquisitions, a time for strong firms to not
BE&K Building Group, a subsidiary of KBR, is working as construction manager for the initial phase of DuPont’s planned expansion of its suburban campus in Wilmington, Del.
Corgan Associate’s Dallas office announced three new associates to add to its team of professionals with expertise in aviation and interior design. Dan Hursin, Ginger Gee and Shelly Nichols were promoted to associate. Gee received a bachelor’s degree in interior design from Harding University in Arkansas and received her master’s of architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" STG Design in Austin announced the promotion of two team members, PollyAnna Little and Jeff Ervin. Little has been promoted to principal and Ervin to associate principal. Little is a graduate of the University of
Industry Faces October 1, 2010 NYBC and New York Construction Co-Sponsor Construction Industry Forum The New York Building Congress and New York Construction recently co-sponsored a Construction Industry Luncheon Forum at the Hilton in New York City. From left: U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler, Richard T. Anderson of the New York Building Congress, NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Michael McNally of Skanska USA, Raymond Daddazio of Weidlinger Associates and U.S. Representative Michael McMahon.(Photo by Bob Wallace) The Real Estate Lenders Association recently held their Seventh Annual Thomas E. Sasso Memorial Golf Outing at the Metropolis Club in White Plains, New York. The
In April, we release our Top Contractor rankings, in which we gather surveys filled out by contractors throughout the region that show us their regional revenue numbers from the previous year. Come August, we do the same with specialty contractors. In October, we turn our eye toward design and architecture firms. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" These numbers represent a quick way to show our readers what may be going elsewhere, outside the walls of their own firms. In the top design rankings that begin on page 51 of this issue we see some interesting trends. Most of them,
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