The New York regional construction market’s dark journey since late 2008 has had its few bright spots – K-12 schools, higher education, massive ongoing transportation jobs – but few seemed as brilliant as healthcare. The vital signs were strong, with big projects churning along and expectations that the demographics of aging Baby Boomers and a growing population would keep the market humming. But beneath the veneer of vigor, multiple maladies have set upon the healthcare market, altering its short-term prospects and clouding its long-term outlook. And it all happened quickly, with economic pressures and the healthcare reform debate colliding, says
Related Links: Top Green Contractors Ranking Top Green Design Firms Ranking Just the Basics Tall Order Sustainable Justice Years after “green” became a buzz word for engineers, architects and builders, we’re still seeing advancements and breakthroughs on projects and programs across the region. It’s hard to find an affordable housing project that has not “gone green.” It’s even harder to find a public job that is not adhering to some sustainability standard. The pages that follow rank the region’s leading green design and construction firms while profiling some of the more innovative sustainability programs going on in the Tri-State region.
Related Links: Back to "Serious But Stable" Plenty of industry associations have spent their time in the past two years lamenting the sad state of affairs in the construction world, but the New York Building Congress didn’t start up its new healthcare committee this year with hand-wringing in mind. The new panel has already hosted four events with prominent speakers outlining the outlook for the healthcare market and providing a forum for discussing future trends, says Andrew Holwack, vice president at NYBC and the committee’s staff liaison. He says the group hasn’t ventured in the policy arena yet. “We’re serving
Funding sources and government programs are moving towards requiring green certification or mandating sustainable features for affordable housing grants. Developers are gaining a deeper understanding of how to build cost-effective, green affordable housing and why building green makes sense. “In a few years to say green affordable housing might almost become redundant,” says Bill Stein, principle, Dattner Architects, New York. “It’s become fairly mainstream at this point and required in whatever different way by just about every housing and funding agency,” says Chris Cirillo, vice president, The Richmond Group, Greenwich, Conn.“Tenants expect to see it, developers expect to do it
Ground has broken on the renovation of the 8-acre Schmul Park in Travis, Staten Island, the second major project in the development of the 2,200-acre Freshkills Park. The $6.5 million Schmul Park, named for the Schmul Family who donated a piece of their farm to the city in 1939 will include a new playground with a spray shower, handball and basketball courts, a lawn area, native plantings and a new green comfort station that features a rain garden. Schmul Park will serve as a gateway into Freshkills Park, the largest landfill-to-park project in the country. Upon its completion, Freshkills Park
Jeffrey J. Zogg, a leader of New York state general contractors for more than two decades and an activist in the national Associated General Contractors organization, died Oct. 24 in Delmar, N.Y., after a long battle with sarcoma, a form of cancer. Zogg served in that role since 2008, when the chapter was formed following the merger of the General Building Contractors of New York State (GBC) and AGC�s New York State Chapter, which represented heavy and highway construction firms. The combined chapter is now AGC�s sixth largest U.S. chapter. ZOGG He previously served as executive director of the building
Three former New York City project officials indicted in connection with a fatal 2007 fire at a vacant Ground Zero high-rise being cleaned of asbestos and demolished will stand trial on manslaughter and other charges on Jan. 18. A New York state supreme court judge rejected on Oct. 22 motions to dismiss charges. The fire killed two firefighters. Photo: AP August 2007 fire at former World Trade Center site killed two firefighters. Now facing trial related to the Deutsche Bank event are Jeffrey Melofchik, former lead project-safety manager and executive at Bovis Lend Lease; Mitchel Alvo, abatement director for The
The Christie Administration along with the state of New Jersey and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority have issued $30 million in federally subsidized, low-interest bonds to help finance construction of new classrooms and other needed facilities within the state�s charter schools. “For too long, charter schools have been denied equitable resources to finance construction projects needed to grow, expand and serve even more children,” said Acting Education Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks. “Other public schools have always been able to borrow money at a low interest rate to help them meet their facilities needs. Today, we begin to level the playing
Through Spanish construction and engineering company, Grupo Dragados SA and its subsidiary, Schiavone Construction of Secaucus, New Jersey, Grupo ACS has been awarded a new $447 million contract for the construction of the 72nd Street Station in Manhattan, part of the ongoing Second Avenue Subway Line project. The contract which was also signed by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority includes construction of the main cavern under Second Avenue which is approximately 1,056 ft long and 72 ft wide and is over 98 ft below ground level. It also includes maintenance and traffic control, monitoring of the existing buildings and
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has approved $2 million in planning work for a future 25,000-sq-ft terminal expansion of Stewart International Airport. The planning and design for the phased terminal expansion is being conducted by the Port Authority who first took on the operation of the airport in 2007 and is expected to be completed by December 2011. The first phase of the planned expansion will consist of expanding the north side of the terminal to construct an adequate federal inspection service facility and to increase overall capacity as well as allowing for the simultaneous processing
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