Aiming to raise funds for the Cooper Union—the elite engineering, architecture and arts college in Manhattan whose financial realities led administrators this past fall to begin charging tuition to incoming students for the first time in more than a century—a group of alumni has launched a not-for-profit consulting firm they hope will generate donations from users of the expertise of more than 12,000 CU graduates who will provide wide-ranging business advice. Related Links: Another college tuition nightmare: Even "free" college isn't free anymore Life After Tuition: A Tale of Two Cooper Unions Cooper Union The Cooper Union Alumni Advisory Service,
Image Courtesy of BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers Upgrade: John F. Kennedy High School is one of seven schools in the Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District that will be receiving upgrades under the $50-million bond-financed construction program. Construction is set to start this summer on nearly $50-million of school upgrades in the Plainview-Old Bethpage, N.Y. Central School District following voters’ approval last month of a school bond to finance the work.Dubbed “Building Futures Together,” the construction program funded by the $49.8-million bond will encompass seven schools and two other buildings owned by the district. Work will focus primarily
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ New York District, has awarded a $25.6-million contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., Oak Brook, Ill., to deepen the Arthur Kill Channel located between Staten Island, N.Y. and Union County, N.J.The contract, awarded on Dec. 9, is cost-shared with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and is part of an extensive harbor-dredging project to create “safe and efficient channels for vessels that will be calling at the Port of New York and New Jersey,” the Corps says. Notice to proceed will likely be issued later this month, says contract
The $23.8-million, 89,500-sq-ft student center at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach was built in the middle of a five-acre stormwater retention pond.
A joint-use public partnership, the library serves both Tidewater Community College and the City of Virginia Beach and required the team to meet the programmatic needs of both users.
Plans for the 160,246-sq-ft Physical Sciences Complex were updated dramatically late in the design process when a $10-million grant was received from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Five new residence halls—part of a University of Virginia effort to overhaul its Alderman Road community for first-year students—were delivered in three phases.
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