Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein have announced that 23 new school buildings with more than 13,000 seats will open at the start of the 2009-10 school year. This new construction, along with the 18 new buildings that opened last year, represents the most-ever new classroom seats to come on line in a two-year period since the School Construction Authority was created in 1988. Related Links: PB Names New CEO Phase One of Norwalk Wastewater Treatment Plant Breaks Ground NY Building Congress: Industry May Be Stabilizing Newest Lowe’s Home Improvement Store Underway SUNY Maritime College Gets
The first phase of the $37 million Wastewater Treatment Plant in Norwalk, Connecticut which includes main lift pumping and grit and screens removal in order to treat a peak flow of up to 90 million gallons per day recently broke ground. Related Links: PB Names New CEO NY Building Congress: Industry May Be Stabilizing Newest Lowe’s Home Improvement Store Underway SUNY Maritime College Gets New Research Facilities NYCEDC Issues RFQs for Potential Willets Point Developers 23 New School Buildings to Open Skanksa to Rebuild Manhattan Bridge The new facility will also provide improved treatment for the extraneous flow the plant
Three months after being acquired by U.K.-based construction giant Balfour Beatty, Parsons Brinckerhoff looked inside the organization for its new leader. George J. Pierson, a three-year veteran with PB, was named the company’s Chief Executive Officer in early December. He will assume the role after the first of the year. Related Links: Phase One of Norwalk Wastewater Treatment Plant Breaks Ground NY Building Congress: Industry May Be Stabilizing Newest Lowe’s Home Improvement Store Underway SUNY Maritime College Gets New Research Facilities NYCEDC Issues RFQs for Potential Willets Point Developers 23 New School Buildings to Open Skanksa to Rebuild Manhattan Bridge
Skanska has secured a $150 million contract from the New York City Department of Transportation to rebuild the Manhattan Bridge. The project will include the replacement of the bridge’s suspension structures. More than 600 suspender cables will be replaced and the four main cables will be re-wrapped. The bearings for the eight main trusses will also be replaced. In addition, inspection platforms will be installed under the bridge and the so-called neckline lighting on the bridge’s two exterior suspender cables will be replaced. Related Links: PB Names New CEO Phase One of Norwalk Wastewater Treatment Plant Breaks Ground NY Building
The State University of New York’s Maritime College is currently in the process of renovating its research facilities called Tode Hall Engineering Laboratories located on the college’s 55-acre campus on the Throg’s Neck peninsula in the Bronx. Photo: The Berman Group, Inc. A separation was created by Architects Landow and Landow between the school’s existing testing space and the new electronics laboratory so as to allow for desk space with electronics equipment and computer hook-ups at each station. Related Links: PB Names New CEO Phase One of Norwalk Wastewater Treatment Plant Breaks Ground NY Building Congress: Industry May Be Stabilizing
When people talk about green building, construction waste management is rarely given top billing. But for contractors, it is a priority. According to McGraw-Hill’s SmartMarket Report, “Sustainable Construction Waste Management: Creating Value in the Built Environment,” 61 percent of contractors rate sustainable waste management as the second most important aspect of a green building, just behind energy efficiency. Related Links: Tracking Trash : Construction teams place higher importance on construction waste management “People do not see the immediate link to reducing your carbon footprint and wastes,” says Michele Russo, director of Green Content & Research Communications at New York-based McGraw-Hill
With the advent of LEED, construction managers are viewing the dumpster in a new light. Construction wastes, once relegated to landfills, are now recycled or reused to earn LEED credits and comply with sustainable construction initiatives. To meet waste management goals, project teams are employing new strategies and setting up tracking systems to document how wastes are recycled and reused. Photo: Croxton Collaborative Architects, PC Metal recycling area during the renovation of the New York offices of the National Resources Defense Council. The 8,800-sq.-ft. project, which is seeking LEED CI Platinum designation, utilized onsite separation to achieve a 96.5 percent
Several large public projects will continue to move forward in 2010, but with the economy still troubled and financial markets unyielding, private jobs are few. Yet they create opportunities for some firms as the industry right-sizes and moves forward. Turner Construction Co. recently completed construction on a cancer research center and a breast care and imaging center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. “The name of the game for 2010 and beyond is to make sure you are well diversified in different product types,” says Pat Di Filippo, executive vice president of Turner Construction Co. in New York,
With the one-year anniversary of the $787-billion federal stimulus package only a month away, we thought we’d use this opportunity to avert our attention away from the doom and gloom predictions for the near future and highlight some of the region’s best stimulus-funded projects. Our parent publication, Engineering News-Record, recently profiled 22 of the nation’s most newsworthy and noteworthy stimulus projects in four categories: Transportation, Energy, Environment and Buildings. As it turns out, all three states in our region – New York, New Jersey and Connecticut – have active projects that made the cut. Those three projects are featured on
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