Prosecutors unsuccessfully moved to treat their own mentally and physically disabled witness as hostile when his testimony unexpectedly bolstered the defense of his friend and co-worker, William Rapetti, the master rigger on trial for manslaughterand negligent homicide in a 2008 Manhattan crane collapse that killed seven. Related Links: Trial Begins For Rigger in Deadly 2008 Crane Collapse Victim “Buried Alive” in 2008 Crane Collapse Testifies in Manslaughter Trial for Crane Rigger Supervisor May Have Been Off-Site At Time of Crane Collapse Faulty Sling Argument Takes a Hit in Rigger�s Manslaughter Trial Doomed Crane Had History of Malfunctions John Della Porta,
Gov. Rick Perry has reappointed Bill Thornton of San Antonio as chair to the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2012. Thornton received a bachelor’s degree from Trinity University, a doctorate of Dental Surgery from Baylor College of Dentistry, and completed his oral surgery residency at Baylor Medical Center. In addition, Gov. Perry has reappointed David Allex of Harlingen as chair to the Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2012. He received a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University at Kingsville and attended the Institute of Organizational Management at
Industry Faces July 1, 2010 The 2010 Global Construction Summit recently took place at The McGraw-Hill Companies Corporate Headquarters Auditorium located at 1221 Avenue of the Americas on the 2nd Floor in New York City. The focus of the event was on �Winning Business in World Markets� and included country delegations from the major construction markets of Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Australia gathering to hear from global thought-leaders.From left: McGraw-Hill CEO, Terry McGraw; Indian Minister, Kamal Nath; McGraw-Hill Construction President, Keith Fox. Leaders from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority highlighted the need for fi scal discipline and a renewed
The site supervisor for the lead contractor at the site of the 2008 midtown Manhattan crane crash testified today in the manslaughter trial of master rigger William Rapetti and revealed that the doomed crane had experienced a spate of problems starting three months before the accident. Related Links: Trial Begins For Rigger in Deadly 2008 Crane Collapse Victim “Buried Alive” in 2008 Crane Collapse Testifies in Manslaughter Trial for Crane Rigger Supervisor May Have Been Off-Site At Time of Crane Collapse Faulty Sling Argument Takes a Hit in Rigger�s Manslaughter Trial Prosecutors Contest Own Witness in Crane Collapse Case Matthew
WARD The World Trade Center has you in the news more than anything else, so let�s start there. Where are we on those projects? CW: If you look at One World Trade, we�re in good shape. The steel is now rising. It�s about 26 stories above grade. We�re at the point, now, where we�re hoping to start getting a floor done every week and a half. So by September we should be at 50 stories and by September of next year we should be literally be topping out. We�re doing the excavation and preliminary foundation at the transit hub, too.
Tunnels have long snaked through the bedrock beneath New York, carrying people and water, but now the underground labyrinth is growing, with multiple projects under way. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" �Some of this work has been in the planning stages for ages but there has been a major push to modernize New York City�s infrastructure over the last decade,� says Gary A. Almeraris, vice president of Skanska USA Civil Northeast of Whitestone, N.Y. He reports the city and transportation authorities have championed the activity, and monies from the federal government, bond initiatives and local dollars have fueled the
Few projects last more than 40 years, but the New York City Department of Environmental Protection�s $6 billion, 60-mi City Water Tunnel No. 3, the largest project in the city�s history, has spanned more than four decades, with one segment open, another under way and several more elements in the works as the department aims for a 2020 completion. �Manhattan has been served by City Water Tunnel No. 1, constructed in 1917, and in order to take that tunnel down to do repairs and replace aging piping, we needed another tunnel,� says Kathryn Mallon, deputy commissioner of the DEP�s bureau
Beneath Second Avenue on Manhattan�s Upper East Side, a 485-ton monster is chewing its way through bedrock, mining tunnels for New York City�s first new subway line in 50 years. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" When completed in 2016, the Second Avenue line will run from 96th to 63rd Streets, where it will hook up with the existing 63rd Street and Broadway lines. Three new stations will be built at 96th, 86th and 72nd Streets along with new entrances to the existing Lexington Avenue/63rd Street Station. The $4.45 billion project is the first phase of the Metropolitan Transit Authority�s
It might be hard to believe, but there was a time when Skanska considered itself something of an unknown in the U.S. construction market. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" �We were always kind of a giant that no one ever knew much about,� says Richard Cavallaro, president of Skanska USA Civil, one of the Swedish construction giant�s four business units in North America. �People would ask us, �Where do you work?� and when you�d say Skanska, they�d say, �Who?� � For awhile, it made sense. Once the firm entered the U.S. market in 1971, it began acquiring firms both
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