In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, New York City issued a rapid-response RFI for emergency repairs to storm victims' homes that was focused on getting power, heat and hot water working safely.
Superstorm Sandy damaged the four buildings that make up the 1,025-bed Coler Goldwater Specialty Hospital on New York's Roosevelt Island, and the hospital's six electrical services needed to be replaced and relocated.
While visitors to Brooklyn's 18,000-seat Barclays Center can't help but notice the structure's weathered steel exterior, they are likely to miss a major portion of what made the multipurpose arena possible—the extensive underground infrastructure network.
A late influx of grant money for additional space coupled with evolving client needs created a dynamic design and construction environment for the Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) $38-million Golisano Institute for Sustainability.
Mount Sinai Medical Center's 450,000-sq-ft Leon and Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine (CSM) integrates five lab research floors, two clinical floors, a clinical trials area, a vivarium, a radiation oncology department, a center for translational and molecular imaging and other spaces.
Originally opened in 1939 as a four-lane span, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge has expanded over the years to accommodate the roughly 200,000 vehicles that cross over it daily.
The first of more than 20 special pre-K to 12-grade schools planned worldwide, the $51.9-million Avenues: The World School in Manhattan was adapted from an old, historic warehouse.