Construction crews on the massive One World Trade Center site Wednesday reached a milestone by placing the largest steel column to date for the $3.1 billion tower in Lower Manhattan. The 60-ft, 70 ton beam will serve as one of 24 perimeter columns that surround the building’s core. Once placed, the columns will allow the initial floors of the tower – including the lobby – to be built out. Each of the 24 columns was manufactured at the ArcelorMittal plant in Luxembourg. The steel plates were shipped to North America and fabricated in shops in South Plainfield, N.J. and Terrebonne,
A grand jury last week indicted New York City’s carpenters union chief and nine other members and contractors following a sweeping investigation that resulted in allegations of fraud, racketeering and accepting bribes. Michael Forde, executive secretary-treasurer of the district council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and other key union officials are accused of helping individual contractors – which are not named in the 29-count indictment – steal “millions of dollars” from union benefit funds by allowing them to pay union member cash below union rates without benefits, employ undocumented and non-union workers and forgo contributions to the
Paul Yoemans McCarthy Building Cos. added Paul Yeomans as director of hospitality and gaming. He will work with the hospitality/gaming/ entertainment industry to expand and create new business opportunities for McCarthy�s Nevada Division and looks to expand McCarthy�s hospitality successes nationally. Yeomans joins McCarthy from MGM Mirage Design Group. He brings more than two decades of development and construction experience and has managed in excess of $1.2 billion in development over the past four years for MGM Mirage. Yeomans received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia. Jennifer Facio TDIndustries promoted George Athens to vice
With the economy in decline, construction projects will likely experience an increase in claims as parties attempt to mitigate risk and salvage shrinking profit margins. In such an environment, both owners and contractors should get reacquainted with the law that governs one of the most common disputes between owners and contractors: differing site conditions. Generally, construction professionals accept that traditional site condition clauses control the risk associated with differing site conditions. New York case law, however, calls that conclusion into question. WHITE Over 30 years ago, New York courts issued two rulings which imposed liability on owners for their failure
CAGNY Celebrates 25 Years July 2009 The Contractors’ Association of Greater New York (CAGNY) recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with an annual meeting dinner for its member companies and their employees at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan. From left: Edward J. Malloy, retiring president of the Building & Construction Trades Council and Raymond G. McGuire, Managing Director of CAGNY. Photo courtesy of The Berman Group, Inc. Students from the Bronx recently participated in ACE Team #17, part of the Architecture, Construction, Engineering Mentor Program, a program that relies on mentors and professionals from leading design and construction
Featured Product July 2009 Bobcat's New Excavator Line The new M-Series compact excavators bring additional power in a smaller machine. The new E32 is a tailswing excavator with a redesigned house for less overhang, while the E35 is a zero-tailswing excavator able to operate in confined spaces. Both excavators are in the 3 to 4-ton weight class and have an arm breakout force 10% greater than on previous models. The Auto-Shift travel feature shifts the machine out of high range and back automatically, providing extra power when pushing into piles. A load-sensing piston pump and closed center-valve grant the excavators smoother
Products: July 2009 DeWalt Introduces New Impact-Ready Accessories DeWalt's new impact-ready accessories are designed to withstand the added torque of impact drivers. This is intended to reduce slippage and bit breakage, resulting in longer service life. Impact-ready drill bits are tapered, feature a pilot tip and, according to the manufacturer, are five times stronger than conventional drill bits. The stronger design allows for more reliable drilling into stainless steel, sheet metal, steel studs and junction boxes. Impact-ready fastening attachments allow use of impact drivers for applications such as metal-to-metal framing, window installation and steel erection. Other impact-ready accessories include hole
Overlooking the massive jobsite at 1 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, Dan Tishman, dressed immaculately in a navy blue suit with a red and pink striped tie, stands watching the 300-plus construction workers scurrying around below him. Photo by Michael Falco Co-owners John Vickers (L) and Dan Tishman (R) have executed a plan aimed at maintaining a presence across all sectors. Years of hard work below grade at 1 World Trade Center culminated in 2008 as Tishman Construction brought the building out of the ground. Related Links: Four Generations of Tishman He shakes his head. “Sometimes I think I
The origins of Tishman Construction Corporation are not unlike the humble beginnings of many small businesses started by European immigrants in the late 19th Century. And while it’s not unheard of to still see some of those businesses in existence today, you’d be hard-pressed to find one of them that has remained family-owned while making as big an impact on the New York region as Julius Tishman & Sons. Related Links: Contractor of the Year Julius Started in 1898, three years after Julius Tishman moved his family from Poland to New York, the business was borne out of a desire
Many construction contracts contain “boilerplate” language that does not seem to have anything to do with the actual work that a contractor has to perform. However, these “boilerplate” sections can have a tremendous impact on the contract’s scope of work. Therefore, to protect themselves against unpleasant surprises on the jobsite (or in court trying to collect on a claim) contractors are well-served to read the “boilerplate” so that they fully understand the scope of work that they are binding themselves to perform by signing a contract. ANGELILLO However, careful contractors cannot stop there. In many instances, in one simple sentence,
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