The Salvadori Center’s student design challenge took place on June 9, with participation from WSP, Goldman Sachs, Structure Tone, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, LPI and others.
When engineers made plans to reinforce and upgrade the carrying capacity of the Empire State Building’s mast and tower, they had to protect pedestrians below.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has put forth 25 actions meant to reduce methane-gas emissions by 2020 as part of the state’s effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 40% by 2030 and 80% by 2050.
A coalition of 12 architect-engineer-contractor groups in New York state hopes the third attempt since 2013 for an emergency responder protection law will be successful.