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Dodge data on projected 2021 construction starts in Manchester

Pike Companies' CEO weighs in; Dodge data on projected 2021 construction starts

Thornton Tomasetti’s CORE studio, Simply Rhino, Grimshaw Architects and KPF Architects on July 8-12 hosted the AECtech Symposium and Hackathon, a virtual event that studied innovations from the UK design and construction industry.

The Bronx’s Hunts Point district has a front-row seat for the cutting edge of community-driven urban redevelopment as the $300-million, 850,000-sq-ft Peninsula completes the first of three phases that will transform its neighborhood and redraw the local map.

In its more than century-long existence, E-J Electric Installation Co.’s large-scale projects have included renovations of historic structures such as Rockefeller University and the Ed Sullivan Theater as well as major lighting work for the new Yankee Stadium and Citi Field. For a leading regional electrical contractor, the past is prologue.

Nestled into the north shore of Lake Superior, the city of Duluth, Minn., sits at the westernmost point of the Great Lakes. Formed by the glaciers that created the lakes themselves, much of Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood is built into a rocky, iron-rich slope with soil no deeper than 20 ft to 30 ft at any point and much of it is exposed rock.

Motor City Electric is focused on the design, construction and maintenance of industrial electrical systems, and the firm’s continued business in several specialty sectors have allowed it to grow into one of the largest electrical contractors in the nation. 

Specialty contractors in the New York and New England regions, like those elsewhere, have been affected by the negative impacts of COVID-19.

Many of the Midwest’s top specialty contractors performed better than expected despite the ongoing pandemic. The group as a whole reported regional revenue of  $5.48 billion in 2020.