Related Articles: Natural Gas Boom Helps Fuel Region's Major Projects DC Water Innovates To Meet $4B Expansion Needs ENR MidAtlantic Index Top Starts In The MidAtlantic Rank Project/Location ProjectCost($ mil.) Start Date/End Date Owner/Prime Contractor 1 Brunswick County Power StationBrunswick County, Va. 1,200 Sept. 2013Summer 2016 Owner Dominion Virginia Power EPC Contractor Fluor 2 Panda Liberty Generation PlantBradford County, Pa. 800+ Aug. 2013Early 2016 Owner PandaPower FundsEPCContractor Gemma-Lane 2 Panda Patriot Generation PlantLycoming County, Pa. 800+ Aug. 2013Mid-2016 Owner PandaPower FundsEPCContractor Gemma-Lane 4 High Performance Computing Center 2Fort Meade, Md. 792 May 2013Summer 2015 Owner U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic Top Starts In The MidAtlantic Top Starts In The MidAtlanticRank Project/ Location Project Cost ($ mil.) Start Date/ End Date Owner/ Prime Contractor1Brunswick County Power StationBrunswick County, Va.1,200Sept. 2013Summer 2016Owner Dominion Virginia PowerEPC Contractor Fluor2Panda Liberty Generation PlantBradford County, Pa.800+Aug. 2013Early 2016Owner Panda Power FundsEPC Contractor Gemma-Lane2Panda Patriot Generation PlantLycoming County, Pa.800+Aug. 2013Mid-2016Owner Panda Power FundsEPC Contractor Gemma-Lane4High Performance Computing Center 2Fort Meade, Md.792May 2013Summer 2015Owner U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore DistrictDesign-Build Contractor Hensel Phelps/Kiewit5Enhanced Nutrient Removal Process Back River Wastewater Treatment PlantBaltimore560Oct. 2013Late 2017Owner City of Baltimore Dept. of Public WorksDesigner Whitman, Requardt &
Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic Long before the new Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia began making its presence known on the CHOP skyline, the $450-million project was challenging engineers and contractors below ground. The construction team, led by Turner Construction, Philadelphia, excavated 70 ft down to make way for a 1,500-car parking garage, requiring one of the largest excavations of its kind in the city, according to the team."That's a pretty deep hole in the city of Philadelphia," says Gregory Ryan, Turner Construction vice president, construction executive and the project director on the job.
McGraw-Hill Construction Analytics Total Picture After a Soft 2013, an Increase in Non-Residential Starts Could Spur a Market Rebound Commercial, institutional and residential work is on the rise, but non-building starts continue on a downward trend. Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic City GrillMack StulbPresident LF Driscoll Co.Stulb, the General Building Contractors Association's 2014 chairman of the board, says the construction market is heating up for contractors in the Philadelphia area. He says many developers are getting more active, especially in the multifamily sector. "A lot of these are sizable mid-rise or high-rise projects," he adds.With the pickup in activity, Stulb says
Related Links: More news from the ENRMidAtlantic 4/14/2014 issue In an industry whose services often are out of public view, the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, known as DC Water, is making a big splash. DC Water, an independent public authority, serves more than 2.2 million people in a 725-sq-mile area around the nation's capital.The agency also operates what it says is the world's largest advanced wastewater treatment plant. Now partway through a 10-year, $4-billion capital program, DC Water is experiencing the largest expansion in its history. To meet that challenge, the authority is embracing innovative technology and
New York City construction spending reached $29.3-billion in 2013, up 6% from 2012, and helped by growth in the government sector, according to a new New York Building Congress (NYBC) study. Rendering Courtesy of New York City Economic Development Corp. Measuring Units: The Hunter's Point South project's 941 units greatly contributed to the rise in building permits issued in Queens last year. Government spending accounted for $13.7 billion, or 47% of construction spending last year, the study says. That is only a slight increase from the $13.4 billion spent in 2012. Spending in this sector peaked in 2008 at $16.3-billion,
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on April 7 that he is appointing Columbia University civil-environmental engineering and computer science professor Feniosky Peña-Mora, who also had been engineering school dean, as commissioner of the city's Dept. of Design and Construction (DDC). Photo Courtesy of Columbia University Pena-Mora is civil engineering researcher and former Columbia U. engineering dean. Related Links: Columbia Engineering Dean Resigns Under Pressure Columbia U.'s New Engineering Dean Returns to Familiar Campus DDC is the city's capital construction project manager, with a staff of nearly 1,200 and a $10 billion portfolio, says its website.According to a
The New York State Thruway Authority is withholding up to $1 million in project progress payments to Tappan Zee Constructors (TZC), the design-build team on the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement, due to several instances of construction barges becoming loose at the site. Image Courtesy of The New York State Thruway Authority Dredging Up: Work on the new two-span bridge began last October and is scheduled for completion by 2018. “Until TZC delivers a contractually required corrective action plan that can be reviewed and approved” by its project team, the Thruway Authority will withhold the funds as allowed under contract, the
A Democratic New Jersey lawmaker has introduced legislation to replace three of Republican Gov. Chris Christie's nominees to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) board, including board Chairman David Samson. The bill seeks to replace those members with "public interest" members nominated by the nonprofit and advocacy organizations New Jersey Future, Trenton, and Tri-State Transportation Campaign, New York; as well as research and advocacy group Regional Plan Association, Princeton. The move comes amid questions raised over whether the governor played a role in the September closure of two entrance lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge
Gas leak explosions, like the March 12 blast that leveled two five-story buildings in New York City's East Harlem, are commonplace nationwide and are not always due to aging infrastructure. In fact, experts in and out of industry say significant incidents in U.S. gas distribution pipelines occur on average every four to six days, and excavation work is often to blame for pipeline damage, according to the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). Photo By Jeffrey Cox/ENR Investigators are still combing the blast site, where two five-story buildings once stood, for clues. Photo By Jeffrey Cox/ENR Side streets off
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