This $10.2-billion accelerated bridge construction (ABC) project involved demolishing and replacing twin steel-and-concrete spans with two prefabricated bridge elements assembled alongside the existing structures.
As COO of the Empire State Chapter of ABC, Albert directs a staff of 10 professionals at the association's East Syracuse headquarters and satellite offices in Buffalo, Albany and Long Island.
This 54-story luxury hotel has 487 guest rooms, a restaurant, fitness center, meeting facilities, six treatment-room spas and a sky lounge with rooftop terrace providing 360-degree views of Manhattan.
There were many daunting safety challenges in building this irregularly shaped, 102,000-sq-ft, glass, stone, concrete and brick signature building. The team, however, overcame them during its nearly 180,000 hours of labor with zero OSHA recordable incidents and no lost-time accidents.
Stamford Hospital's project team had nearly finished design and preconstruction work on a new three-story facility to house emergency, surgery and acute care services when the client added a request: Add a seven-story tower that the master plan did not specify for another decade.
From the $4.6-billion Manhattan West complex to the $3.9-billion Tappan Zee Bridge replacement span, the 2013 start-up of megaprojects in and around New York City has brightened prospects for specialty contractors with work forces large enough to handle the loads, say industry executives.
In the first two days after Sandy's devastating blow on Oct. 29, 2012, several of the region's largest general contractors began a massive mobilization effort throughout the areas hit the hardest.
By many accounts, the perception is that federal, state and local relief funds in the wake of Superstorm Sandy have been much too slow to trickle down to the people and projects that need them. To be sure, there are signs of significant progress in New York and New Jersey—the states hardest hit by the October 2012 storm. Huge debris piles are gone; major infrastructure was repaired; many devastated homes torn down, repaired and/or elevated; and innovative ideas realized to prevent or withstand the next storm's damage But for thousands of storm victims and many projects, government reimbursement checks are
There are numerous Sandy rebuilding programs in place for homeowners and businesses throughout the region. Two large ones that launched last year with federal dollars are New Jersey's Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevation and Mitigation initiative and New York City's Build It Back. While each program had contentious beginnings, both appear to be gaining momentum. Courtesy Of The NYC Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery Gaining Speed: New York City's Build It Back program has so far begun work on 207 projects and another 300 are scheduled to start. Courtesy Of The NYC Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery Gaining Speed: New York City's
New York City is known for many things, but massive space isn't one of them. So when the city's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and its Dept. of Design and Construction (DDC) set about finding an interim housing solution for urbanites displaced by disasters such as Superstorm Sandy, they came up with an idea for a three-apartment unit with about 2,106 ft of living space, which was set on an empty 96-ft by 40-ft lot in downtown Brooklyn. Photo Courtesy of NYC Office of Emergency Management The Next BIG IDEA? The city hopes this little unit might one day be
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