Besides the typical challenges that a worksite located in a dense urban area can pose—little space for staging, heavy foot and vehicle traffic and a challenging schedule—the team building this 176,000-sq-ft, $76.6-million, mixed-use structure encountered a few more.
The longest of Vermont's three remaining Pennsylvania through trusses, the 350-ft, 85-year-old steel span over the Winooski River, was too narrow and in need of a significant structural upgrade.
The first of five planned buildings for the Alexandria Center at Kendall Square development, the $123-million headquarters for biotech firm Biogen Idec was designed to fit in with Cambridge, Mass.'s high-tech life sciences hub.
Hundreds of contractors, vendors, suppliers, designers and customer representatives were involved in helping to bring a corporate headquarters and manufacturing hub under one roof for a high-tech digital display company.
Although it began as an infrastructure solution to reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and flooding of the Alewife Brook watershed, the 3.4-acre constructed wetland project wound up going much further.
Renovations and improvements to Logan International Airport's Terminal B included 24 ticket counter positions, a relocated and modified TSA passenger checkpoint, 10 reconfigured departure lounges and boarding gates, a secure passenger connection to Pier B, concessional shell space, new club shell space and new baggage systems and bag claim devices.
Luxury residential tower construction is helping to push New York City construction spending levels near those accrued during industry’s 2007 and 2008 heydays, according to a new study.The city’s 2014 residential-sector spending alone is expected to reach $10.9 billion—nearly a third of the $32.9 billion total forecast for the year, according to the latest New York Building Congress (NYBC) forecast. If residential spending reaches that amount, it will be up about 60% from 2013.But the number of new dwelling units produced is expected to rise just 22% to 22,500 this year, increasing to only 23,250 in 2015, the study
Charles F. Vachris, a Yale University honors engineering graduate who went on to found his own geotechnical and foundations engineering firm, died on Oct. 7 in Flower Hill, N.Y. He was 75. The apparent cause was a heart attack, the firm said. Vachris founded Vachris Engineering pc, based in Garden City, N.Y., in 1982 after working in his family's construction business and was its president. He also served in the Army Corps of Engineers and obtained a master's degree in engineering at Columbia University. Vachris, who was a member of The Moles, a national heavy construction professional group, since 1968,
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced two infrastructure investments in early October that amount to a total of $201 million. Most recently, the mayor said the city would spend $173 million to upgrade 35 community parks in densely populated neighborhoods with higher-than-average concentrations of poverty. Separately, he announced plans to invest $28 million to install a total of 6.25 megawatts of solar power on the rooftops of 24 public schools by 2016.The first phase of the City Parks Initiative will use $130 million in capital funding to promote the full re-creation of the parks; $7.2 million in expense
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