Thomas J. DiGangi, Jr. has been hired as Executive Director of Associated General Contractors of New Jersey, based in Edison. DiGangi’s comes to AGC from the New Jersey Schools Development Authority, where he served as Chief of Staff, Acting Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Operations before taking on the role of Acting Chief Executive Officer during the Corzine/Christie transition. DiGangi is also the founder of Triangle Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in government and public affairs and has previously served as Director of Government Affairs for Building Contractors Association of New Jersey. “We’re fortunate to have Tom
Construction on the new 410,000-sq-ft, state-of-the-art Mount Sinai Center for Science and Medicine located on Madison Avenue in New York City which aims to expand its research and treatment programs while providing hundreds of job opportunities to local residents is currently underway. The new building is designed to facilitate interactions through the integration of four types of space including interactive space such as education spaces, lounges and computer facilities, basic science research space, the Mount Sinai Brain Institute and Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, the Center for Translational and Molecular Imaging and the Cancer Center which will be linked by
Spector Group, a New York-based architecture and design firm has been named executive architect for the renovation of a 260,000-sq-ft full-service Volkswagen dealership. Once home to Potamkin General Motors, the existing building located at 798 11th Avenue in Manhattan is being transformed to fit the national image of Volkswagen Group of America�s dealerships with the help of Volkswagen�s design/brand architect, Detroit-based Cityscape Architects, Inc. as well as Audi�s design/brand architect, New York-based CR Studio, Architects, PC. The new facility will occupy six floors of space, along with the building�s roof and a portion of its cellar and will house new
Blending interviews and historical photographs with breathtaking original high-definition video, BUILDING ALASKA, a 90-minute documentary, recounts the dramatic stories of how engineers, constructors and craft workers built some of the greatest feats of infrastructure in the state�and around the world�under some of the most challenging conditions. Featured are stories on construction of Alaska railroads of the early 20th century; building the Alaska Highway construction and invasion of Alaska by the Japanese in World War II; and rebuilding the state in 1964 after the biggest earthquake ever in North America. The film, written and produced by Great Projects Film Co. Inc.,
The City University of New York and NYU Langone Medical Center are joining together to create a 25,000-sq-ft, state-of-the-art urban health science simulation training facility located on the third floor of Bellevue Hospital at 462 First Avenue. The New York Simulation Center for Health Sciences is being designed by Ballinger Associates of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and will feature eight simulation rooms including operating rooms, a wet room/disaster training room, ICU/trauma rooms and 14 patient examination rooms, as well as conference and classroom space. The new center will train a range of health professionals including students, staff and residents from the NYU
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services of Elmwood Park, New Jersey has acquired Treadwell & Rollo, a San Francisco-based geotechnical and environmental engineering firm helping to attain nationwide reach and shared access to technical resources. The acquisition is a first in the 40-year history of Langan, a privately held consulting firm with 500 employees in 14 offices around the world. 70 professionals from Treadwell & Rollo�s California offices in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Sacramento will be added to Langan. �Two elite firms with more than 60 years combined experience have joined forces to grow our client-focused business,� said David
The New York Building Congress recently released its annual construction forecast, predicting an increase in construction activity for 2011. But Building Congress President Dick Anderson tempered the optimism by saying it�s an outlook that depends heavily on public spending at a time when those dollars may be harder to obtain. “It’s the most guarded outlook we have put out since we started the series a decade ago,” he said. The Building Congress’ New York City Construction Outlook 2010-2012 annual forecast and analysis reports in 2010 a 23% drop occurred in construction spending from 2008, $23.7 billion down from $31 billion,
New York-based Perkins Eastman and Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, two international design and architecture firms have announced that they will be merging their practices, totaling nearly 600 employees. EE&K specializes in the conceptualization and design of large-scale mixed-use urban projects and brings a 50-year record of innovative educational facility design, a distinguished portfolio of historic preservation and adaptive reuse as well as a growing practice in China and Vietnam. Perkins Eastman is one of the top architectural firms in the world and will bring added strength to EE&K�s core interests including campus planning and building design, according to Stan
Alamo Iron Works in San Antonio announced the appointment of Francis “Duffy” Shea as president of the company. In this position, he will be responsible for all aspects of AIW’s steel and industrial supply business. Shea has over two decades of experience in the industrial marketplace and supply distribution. LJA employees earn Professional Engineer�s Licenses from the state of Texas. LJA Engineering Inc. announced that five employees in the firm’s Houston office recently received Professional Engineer’s License from the State of Texas. They are: Jared Ciarella, PE, Sean Wallace, PE, Mehdi Nezami, PE, Jeff Ebersole, PE and Amanda Carriage, PE,
Industry Faces November 1, 2010 NY Jets Show Off New Stadium to Building Congress E-J Electric Installation Co. participated in the Second Annual Hudson Valley Bike Ride in support of the Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services and helped to raise over $550,000. Pictured on the left is Anthony Mann, President, E-J Electric Installation Co. and Board President, JBFCS finishing the race. Pictured on the right isTony Mann (fifth from the left)with Neil Freedman (fourth from the left), Director of Kaplan House and Kaplan House Residents. The Subcontractors Trade Association held their Annual Golf Outing at the Cherry Valley Club
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