The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is building an 11,400-ft-long wall along the A Line in Broad Channel, Queens to protect the track right-of-way from washouts should another Sandy-like storm hit the area. The A Line suffered signal, switch, and cable damage when the Oct. 29, 2012 storm hit the region. Photo by Kevin Ortiz/Courtesy of MTA Putting Up Obstacles: Crews are drilling steel sheets 33 ft below ground to protect tracks. J-Track LLC, College Point, N.Y., is building the $15-million wall, which will be located on the Jamaica Bay side of Broad Channel and is scheduled to be completed by May.
A s Superstorm Sandy bore down on the New Jersey coast last fall, officials at the Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin huddled to figure out what to do. Nor'easters had historically pummeled the low-lying area laced with inlets, and so the hospital was taking the storm seriously. To compound problems, Southern Ocean was nearing the end of the first phase of a two-phase project to build a new emergency department (ED) and renovate its existing ED structure. The 32,500-sq-ft project would more than triple the ED's size and nearly double the hospital's patient rooms to 42. Related Links: ENR
Squeezed between towers and tunnels under construction, and with only two street access points, crews are digging away at the third and final phase of the now popular High Line on the West Side of Manhattan. While many questions loom regarding coordination among multiple other parties and future funding for some aspects of work, High Line participants are benefiting from lessons learned from the previous phases and public embrace of the project. Related Links: ENR New York More ENR New York Projects When construction on the first two sections of the elevated High Line park began in 2006, New York
Buro Happold, New York, has hired Ariella Rosenberg as a strategic planner to work in the firm's strategic management company Happold Consulting. Rosenberg has more than a decade of urban planning experience focusing on sustainability planning, energy management and climate action. She previously served as deputy director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, where she was part of the team that developed PlaNYC to combat climate change. Related Links: ENR New York ENR New York Featured People Anthony S. Pecci, based in Dewberry's Bloomfield, N.J., office, has been promoted to senior vice president from
Tristate Photo by Sue Pearsall On the Job: New York construction jobs grew 2.4% last year, but New Jersey and Connecticut employment declined. Rendering Courtesy of NYS Thruway Authority The Long Stretch: The Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project is expected to begin construction later this year. Related Links: ENR New York ENR New York Featured News Industry Employment Up in N.Y., Down in N.J. & Conn.The tristate Region's year-over-year industry employment rates were mixed, according to an Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) jobs report released last month. But the industry overall shows signs of emerging from a six-year slump,
Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic's Top 20 Under 40 This year’s call for nominations yielded an impressive collection of entries from around the region. An independent jury pored over the entries, judging candidates on the basis of their career experience; industry leadership; community service; and other factors. ADUCCIKen AducciDepartment Manager, Sr. Vice PresidentHDR Inc.Aducci is responsible for day-to-day management of all HDR engineering staff and operations in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has 31 years of experience in the construction industry, including extensive experience in highway project management and design. HOPam HoHuman Resources ManagerSmithGroupJJRHo is the human resources manager for the
Related Links: Engineering News Record MULLENEXBarbara Mullenex has joined Perkins Eastman as a principal in Washington, D.C. A 26-year industry veteran in architecture and interior design focused on hospitality and corporate interiors, she had been a managing partner at OPX.Brennan Fama was hired by Balfour Beatty Construction as a project executive on its multi-family housing team in Fairfax, Va. Previously a project executive at Clark Construction, he has led such projects as the $120-million Clarendon Center in Virginia. BAXTERFrank Baxter was hired by Skanska USA as the environment, health and safety director for its greater Philadelphia region. He had
Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record PlanningMarylandMaryland Dept. of Juvenile Services is planning a new 48-bed detention center on the grounds of the Thomas O'Farrell Center in Marriottsville. The facility will include space for housing, dietary service, education, somatic and behavioral health, indoor and outdoor recreation, administration and general support. Design is scheduled for 2014 with construction in 2016. The project is valued at $43 million. 120 W. Fayette St., One Center Plaza, Baltimore, 21201. DR#13-00436910. Contracts/Bids/ProposalsDistrict of ColumbiaThe General Services Administration Office of Design and Construction is soliciting general contractors for bids on the first phase of the
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) issued new safety rules as it resumed work at the Second Avenue Subway's 95th Street station site today, March 21, a day after an SAS contractor trapped below ground in mud up to his chest was rescued. "Everyone in the area will work with harnesses, and all areas without any support under them will be marked off with cones," the agency said in a statement.The mandate follows a grueling four-hour ordeal that began March 19 to free 51-year-old Joseph Barrone, an E.E. Cruz worker who got stuck 75 ft below ground in the quicksand-like mud
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