WSP, New York, has hired Allan Alterman as director of the firm's U.S. IT operations and infrastructure. Previously, he was managing director of the IT consulting firm Operations-View LLC, serving clients including New York University. Alterman Related Links: ENR New York ENR New York Featured People The LiRo Group, Syosset, N.Y., has promoted Edward Frysztacki to senior associate vice president from associate.In addition, David Hall has been elevated to senior associate from associate, and Mark Swanson has been promoted to associate from project manager.EYP Architecture & Engineering, Albany, N.Y., has hired Bob Eichelman as a technical director. He has more
Related Links: ENR New York Featured News Seaside Park, N.JSandy Funds Ok'd for Boardwalk Fire WorkNew Jersey Officials have given formal approval of Gov. Chris Christie's plan to use $15 million of the state's Superstorm Sandy funds for repair of the New Jersey boardwalk that was destroyed by fire last month. The governor announced the plan Sept. 14, two days after faulty electrical wiring under part of the Seaside Park boardwalk triggered a fire that spread to the neighboring Seaside Heights boardwalk.In a special session last month, the state's Economic Development Authority (EDA) supported the plan to draw from
Superstorm Sandy was behind the faulty electrical wiring that caused the Sept. 12 wind-swept blaze that destroyed part of the Jersey Shore's iconic boardwalk last week, officials say. Ocean County investigators have made that connection and determined that the fire was accidental, Joseph D. Coronato, Ocean County prosecutor, said in a Sept. 17 press conference aired in part on the Internet. The blaze originated in Seaside Park underneath a structure that housed the Biscayne Candies and Kohr's Frozen Custard shops and then spread to Seaside Heights, destroying more than 50 businesses. The team of 27 investigators and four accelerant-detection K9
As the investigation continues into the cause of last week's fire at N.J.'s Seaside Park and Seaside Heights's famous boardwalk, Gov. Chris Christie announced plans to tap Superstorm Sandy funds to help in recovery efforts from the devastating wind-swept blaze. The governor says the state will act "swiftly and aggressively" in the rebuilding effort for victims including the boardwalk businesses that took a direct blow from Sandy 11 months ago. Photo by Tim Larsen/Governor's Office Starting Over: Gov. Christie says the state will act "swiftly and aggressively" in the rebuilding effort for victims of the Sept. 12 Seaside Park and
The New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) Hudson River Estuary Program has issued 12 grants worth a combined total of $564,000 for water resiliency projects in NYS. The funding comes after Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee both rocked the region in 2011, says DEC, which is working in partnership with the non-profit New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC) on the grant program. Photo Courtesy of Hudson River Estuary Program Irene's Blow: The Hudson River Maritime Museum and Tugboat Mathilda, also part of the museum, suffered severe flooding from 2011's Hurricane Irene. The grants will help
The newly formed Associated Construction Contractors of New Jersey (ACCNJ), Edison, the state chapter of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America, plans to tackle about six legislative initiatives in the next year that will help create jobs and funding streams for industry, says Jack Kocsis, Jr., CEO. He declined to identify those initiatives but says they are among several others aimed at helping to grow New Jersey's economy. Photo Courtesy of ACCNJ New Board: From left to right, first row: Torcivia; Hall; Earp; Weeks; and (slightly behind) Creamer. Second row: Blanchard; Epifano; Natoli; and Ferreira. Third row: Parry; Prisco;
Federal regulators dealt a blow recently to Williams Partners L.P. in putting off a decision for six months on whether the firm's plans to build a 3.17-mile natural gas pipeline extension off the coast of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens is approved. Rendering Courtesy of Williams Partners L.P. Hanging On: The project includes building the meter and regulator stations inside one of the historic hangar buildings at Floyd Bennett Field and restoring the facade to that structure. Williams had planned to start work on the $182-million Rockaway Delivery Lateral Project this month but the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) said
A U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C. has dismissed a lawsuit filed last October by three environmental groups last year to stop construction of the Susquehanna-Roseland high-voltage transmission line between Pennsylvania and New Jersey that crosses three national parks. Judge Richard Roberts said Aug. 30 that the decision by the U.S. National Park Service to allow construction of the 500-kV line through the parks was rationally based and that the plaintiffs have not shown it was arbitrary and capricious. The 145-mile line will run from Berwick, Pa., near the PPL Electric Utilities’ Susquehanna nuclear plant, to Roseland, N.J. PPL
Joe Crupi spent a recent morning standing between two sites where several long trenches had been dug to make way for installing part of the water distribution system to the Manhattan leg of Water Tunnel No. 3. Within one of the trenches, tangles of rusted pipes had already been lifted over wooden crossbeams and moved aside to make way for a new 48-in.-dia trunk main below. On this particular section of the project on this particular summer day, some of the old-pipe relocation work was done; crews were navigating the rest of the job. Related Links: Long Road: Tunnels bored
Laura M. Coletti and Michael E. Kralick have established Impact Architecture, an architecture and planning firm with headquarters in Farmingdale, N.Y. The partners are veterans of New York state's architectural and sustainable design industry. Coletti Related Links: ENR New York ENR New York Featured People Bryan Savage of Passaro Associates, Rochester, N.Y., has passed his professional engineer exam to become a licensed professional engineer in New York. Savage works in the firm's aviation services group on commercial and general airport improvement projects. He has five years of experience and holds a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the
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