The roadway that snakes its way between Brooklyn and Queens is one of New York City’s busiest and is notorious for its congestion and high accident rates. The most recent in a series of BQE rehabilitation projects, completed in December 2008, reconstructed the dilapidated, serpentine, section of the highway between 61st St. and Broadway in Queens at a cost of $129 million. Related Links: Best Of 2009 Improvements included resurfacing/replacing pavement, realigning the roadway, widening lanes, creating breakdown shoulders and constructing a highway exchange at Broadway. Twelve bridges were rehabilitated including replacement of the superstructures on six of the spans.
The congregation of the Church of St. Aloysius in Jackson, N.J., was growing, and by 2001 the 500 seats in its church, as well as the size of its school, were not big enough to accommodate everyone. The Diocese of Trenton, the owners of the church, embarked on a master plan to build a new, 1,100-seat place of worship Along with the diocese, the congregation itself was involved in approving the new master plan. Related Links: Best Of 2009 “The process had to find a way for consensus between those disparate opinions,” says Scott Erdy, principal of Erdy McHenry Architecture,
A jam-packed Citi Field – the new home of the New York Mets – is a heavy place. After all, that adds up to 45,000 baseball fans cheering atop more than 12,000 tons of structural steel, along with the 1-million-plus bricks enclosing the 1.4-million-sq-ft ballpark in Queens. Related Links: Best Of 2009 It’s not the kind of facility that typically sits atop soft, fill-based soils. But the $800-million-plus Citi Field is built over meadows with virtually no rock beneath. “There’s no bottom, essentially,” says Scott Hamburg, senior project manager for Bovis Lend Lease, half of the construction manager joint venture
The $163 million Dey Street Concourse Structural Box, part of the new Fulton Street Transit Center complex, added a concourse and subway tracks and platforms beneath Dey Street between Church Street and Broadway. The concourse will eventually connect the Transit Center and the permanent PATH terminal at the World Trade Center site. Related Links: Best Of 2009 “The successful completion of the structural box for the Dey Street underground pedestrian concourse was the result of exceptional teamwork between owner and contractor, as well as the cooperation we encountered from the community and stakeholders during construction,” says Hsin Wu, P.E., construction
The $68 million Cooper Square Hotel is part of the vanguard of sleek contemporary structures standing in mark contrast to the low-rise tenements that have characterized Manhattan’s Cooper Square since the 1850’s. Related Links: Best Of 2009 But whereas the other new buildings stand apart from the surrounding tenements, Cooper Square Hotel incorporates one of the red-brick buildings into the structure. This interesting integration of the old and the new was not by choice, but in the end added to the overall design. Original plans for the hotel called for the demolition of three brick tenements occupying the building site.
For the people of Deer Park, Long Island and its surrounding areas, the construction of the Arches during this tough economic period gives them a reason to be at least cautiously optimistic. Designed to emulate a European-themed shopping village with covered walkways, an outdoor ice skating rink and water fountains, the $180 million open air center is expected to generate millions of dollars in tax revenue, which will help alleviate the burden on the town’s residents. It has also generated hundreds of jobs, both full and part time, for local residents. Related Links: Best Of 2009 The largest outlet center
Awards Abound December 2009 Associations honored their member�s best projects at ceremonies this fall. Gilbane Building Company won the ABC of Metropolitan Washington�s Excellence in Construction Award in the Mega Project category for the National Biodefense Analysis & Countermeasures Center project. Left to right are members of the project team: Jim Settle and Mike Bogdash of Gilbane; Dave Williams of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Ted Trester, Jeff Schramm and Justin Percoski of Gilbane; Suketu Patel of Perkins + Will; and John Peperone and Lola Poe-Taylor of Gilbane. Dean Smith (left), Bart Bush, and Doug Nelson of the U.S.
Gregs G. Thomopulos, P.E., Chairman & CEO of Stanley Consultants of Houston, was elected president of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers for a two-year term. FIDIC represents globally the consulting engineering industry. Thomopulos has been on the organization’s executive committee for six years. His election marks the first time in 20 years that a U.S. citizen holds the position, which only three other Americans have held in FIDIC’s nearly 100-year history. Dynamic Lighting Solutions in Pearland announced Robert C. Horswood joined the company as utility sales representative, Eastern Division. He graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s
Texas Construction presents its thirteenth annual Best Of awards issue, which honors projects completed in our region between Sept. 1, 2008, and Sept. 1, 2009.
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