Early autumn of 2010 may well have been the rock bottom point for the New York region’s design and construction market. That’s when it was clear that its few active sectors – healthcare, K-12 schools, and higher education – had backlogs drying up and new projects delayed, adding to gloom that had already enveloped private commercial and residential construction. Healthcare sector work is keeping Turner Construction’s prospects for 2011 brighter than last year, thanks in part to the ongoing $440 million effort at the University Medical Center at Princeton in Plainsboro Township, N.J. The 636,000-sq-ft, 269-bed replacement hospital will have
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services of Elmwood Park, New Jersey has acquired Treadwell & Rollo, a San Francisco-based geotechnical and environmental engineering firm helping to attain nationwide reach and shared access to technical resources. The acquisition is a first in the 40-year history of Langan, a privately held consulting firm with 500 employees in 14 offices around the world. 70 professionals from Treadwell & Rollo’s California offices in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Sacramento will be added to Langan. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" “Two elite firms with more than 60 years combined experience have joined forces to
Basketball City USA, a $13 million project that includes the conversion of city-owned warehouse space on Pier 36 in Lower Manhattan into a first-class recreational sports and special events facility has secured financing through the New York City Economic Development Corporation and United Fund Advisors and is currently on its way to creating 50-full time jobs targeted to low-income residents of the area. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Construction on the approximately 63,000 sq ft space that will host youth basketball instruction, camps, leagues, tournaments, and free court time along with a “home court” for 28 basketball teams in
Buried in the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives of the NYU Tamiment Library, lies a faded, typewritten document recounting the origin of the New York Building Congress.
Construction is ongoing at Bronx Community College�s new 98,000-sq-ft North Instructional Building and Library where a recent supply of building products and submittal services has been provided. Photo courtesy of Park Avenue Building & Roofing The North Instructional Building was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York to match the original classical-revival style campus which was the former location of New York University before it moved to Manhattan and the campus became Bronx Community College. The new building is also designed to achieve LEED Silver status from the U.S. Green Building Council through the use of all recycled
Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Sringer and the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board, a citizen advisory board appointed by the borough president and New York City council members, are launching a new grant program to offer up to $750 in funding for community, small-scale composting initiatives. The grants will be awarded in 2011 to eligible community groups including community associations, community gardens, friends of park groups, housing development organizations, nonprofits, public schools, colleges, universities, hospitals and private businesses to purchase equipment, tools, and materials to start, expand and grow neighborhood composting programs. Currently, food and yard waste make up over
Helping to further the revitalization of Coney Island, The Wildlife Conservation Society has received approval from the New York City Public Design Commission for a new 50,000-sq-ft exhibit called Ocean Wonders: Shark, at the nearly 115-year-old New York Aquarium in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Rendering courtesy of WCS “This exciting new shark exhibit will attract people from far and wide to visit the New York Aquarium,” said New York City Councilman Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. “The revitalization of Coney Island is already attracting record-breaking crowds and Ocean Wonders: Shark is an important piece of our ultimate goal- establishing Coney Island as
Early autumn of 2010 may well have been the rock bottom point for the New York region�s design and construction market. That�s when it was clear that its few active sectors � healthcare, K-12 schools, and higher education � had backlogs drying up and new projects delayed, adding to gloom that had already enveloped private commercial and residential construction. Related Links: Subcontractors in Distress Labor Contract Showdown And then came the New Jersey governor’s announcement that the state was abandoning its commitment to the $8.7 billion Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel project – which would have built a passenger rail tunnel and
Few construction industry leaders believe they�ll see a turnaround in the first half of 2011 in the New York region. But they may see one an important milestone by midyear when 30 New York City labor-contractor collective bargaining agreements are set to expire on July 1. Related Links: How To Get Work in 2011 The current crop includes some of the biggest unions, including the steamfitters, operating engineers, carpenters, and laborers. And a standoff looms over costs, says Louis Coletti, president and CEO of the Building Trades Employers’ Association. Coletti says contractors are getting pressure from owners’ groups, such as
While some signs suggest the economic downturn has reached bottom, construction activity in the New York region still languishes with little optimism for a quick rebound. �It�s very much a mixed picture in terms of what to expect,� says Kenneth D. Simonson chief economist of Associated General Contractors of America in Arlington, Va. �Construction is now at or close to its low point and should start showing improvement in most categories by the end of 2011.� Related Links: How To Get Work in 2011 Data from McGraw-Hill Analytics indicates a slight decline in new starts in 2011 as compared to
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