The first damage and economic loss estimates of Hurricane Sandy are pegged at about $33 billion for New York State and $50 billion for the region, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today, Nov. 8, in an update on the storm. "That is a staggering number, especially with the financial situation that we’ve been in," he said. The state may also incur, at least, an additional $1 billion deficit due to the storm, Cuomo said.The governor also criticized utilities, calling them monopolies, for being unprepared. "Part of it is the system design and part of it is just their performance, and part
The judges said the team on the PSEG New Haven Peaking Project—the winner of ENR New York's first-ever Safety Award—put many proactive safety measures in place and involved everyone from management to craft workers in the process.
This $136-million project is part of an ongoing $2-billion project to build an extradosed cable-stay bridge across New Haven Harbor to replace the aging "Q Bridge" there today.
The Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center, which offers long-term care to children with complex clinical conditions and disabilities, had been based on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan for a century. But an expiring lease forced the center to relocate to Yonkers, N.Y., where it built a 137-bed, 165,000-sq-ft facility on the top of a hill.
Leaking roofs in the former stable complex that served as the police station in 2002 for Manhattan's Central Park forced the precinct to relocate to a temporary structure next door until the complex was repaired.
Since being completed in 1915, Waterbury, Conn.’s 90,000-sq-ft government center has suffered a great deal of wear and tear—and in early 2000, vandalism—which ultimately led to the building being closed for multiple code violations.
About 400,000 people live within a 10-mile radius of this 15-acre property in suburban Marlboro, N.J., that has had industrial tenants from as early as 1912.
While the idea of a net-zero energy building—one that generates at least as much energy as it consumes—may be laudable, large-scale examples are few and far between. But this Massachusetts school, which combined two campuses into a new single structure, has surpassed its green goals and is the commonwealth's first state-owned net-zero building.
As part of an effort to make Boston's Logan International Airport safer, greener and more secure, workers upgraded a major parking garage from the 1970s and the supporting roadway system.
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