Congress's recently passed $9.7-billion aid package for flood insurance claims is a good start but is only a prelude to the $51-billion package that lawmakers need to pass in coming weeks to help Superstorm Sandy victims, say local industry and elected officials. While there is no guarantee that the larger bill will be voted on and passed soon, it is vital to recovery efforts, they add. A House vote on the $51-billion measure is expected on Jan. 15, with a Senate vote the week of Jan. 21. Photo Courtesy of Andrea Booher/FEMA Pile Up: Two months after Superstorm Sandy, debris
Thornton Tomasetti acquired Simon & Associates Inc. (S&A), a San Francisco sustainability consulting firm last month in a move that expands its West Coast and green practice footprint. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, follows Thornton Tomasetti's early 2012 purchase of Portland, Maine-based Fore Solutions, another green building consulting firm. S&A is a six-person firm that will become part of Thornton Tomasetti's Building Sustainability practice, created last year with the purchase of Fore and headed up by Fore's founder Gunnar Hubbard. S&A founder Lynn N. Simon will lead the West Cost practice, collaborating with Hubbard and the firm's California leadership."We've
Tri-state Democratic and Republican lawmakers as well as industry representatives have sharply criticized the 112th Congress for its failure to pass a $60.4-billion Superstorm Sandy aid package before its Jan. 2 adjournment.
There were 224,878 men and women working in the New York City’s construction industry in 2011, about the same as in 2010, according to a recent New York Building Congress (NYBC) study. Photo by Luke Abaffy Post Sandy repair work will only temporarily show a spike in the workforce, says Lou Coletti, president and CEO of BTEA. To increase the number of workers in the city, it’s a “simple prescription,” says Lou Coletti, president and CEO of Building Trades Employers’ Association. “The only thing that is going to create more jobs is more projects,” Coletti says. "We hear that projects
The newly launched NYC Rapid Repairs program has attracted more than 2,000 contractors, Lou Coletti, president and CEO of the Building Trades Employers' Association (BTEA), which was one of the groups hosting contractor registration. This is "more than enough" for the program, which launched Nov. 9 and in recent weeks began sending teams of contractors to homes severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy. Photo by Luke Abaffy The NYC Rapid Repair program is in partnership with FEMA and is aimed at helping residents, some of whom have had to abandon their homes due to Superstorm Sandy. The free city program, in
ENR New York's website was active this year as the number of readers that spent time viewing news and project pages grew from the prior year. Related Links: Bloomberg Unveils Post-Sandy Strategy; Names NYCEDC to Oversee 2 NYC Groups Granted FEMA's 1st Round of Post-Sandy Recovery Funds Recovery Work Takes Center Stage Some Tristate Projects Suffer Sandy's Blow City Puts Old Rail Cars to Use Sandy's Combined N.Y.-N.J. Damage Estimate Stands at About $62.8B Cuomo Forms 3 Groups to Improve NYS's Natural Disaster Preparedness Carpenters Nail Down Volunteer Work in Sandy-Stricken Areas Cuomo: Sandy Cost NYS about $33 Billion After
With a commitment to allow all students to participate in sports and fitness activities equally without compromising their busy schedules, the St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Del., added 52,000 sq ft of space to its existing Sipprelle Field House.
The 235,000-sq-ft, $93-million replacement school in Washington, D.C. was designed to accommodate a curriculum based on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
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