NEW YORK (AP) — For 27 years, the heat in Regina Fred’s Queens apartment building came from a noisy steam radiator that she couldn't control and sometimes didn't come on at all, leaving her shivering. Sometimes, the radiators ran so hot that residents had to keep their windows open in the middle of winter for relief. That all changed a few months ago, when she got a window-mounted heat pump as ...
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Mar. 8—STATE CAPITOL — State Sen. Neil Breslin and Assemblyman David Weprin are pushing for passage of a bill that would make staging a construction site accident a class E felony, in order to combat what they call a growing trend of insurance fraud. Speaking at the state Capitol on Tuesday, Breslin, D-Albany, said both individuals and criminal organizations are increasingly using staged ...
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey lawmakers wanted to ask voters whether to ban new fossil fuel-fired power plants. And then they added a loophole big enough to drive a fleet of oil trucks through. A state Senate committee on Monday advanced a bill that would authorize a public referendum on amending the state's Constitution to ban construction of new power plants that burn natural gas or other ...
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Feb. 26—A consultant has been brought on to help the Buffalo Bills and general contractor Gilbane/Turner reach their goals for hiring women- and minority-owned businesses in the building of the $1.7 billion Bills stadium. Developments by Jem, a construction and development and project management consulting company in Buffalo, was brought on a few weeks ago to start engaging with local minority ...
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Feb. 26—Prosecutors in New York have charged a Bethel contractor with negligent homicide in the death of a construction worker nearly three years ago, after they say the contractor failed to take precautions while digging a 9-foot trench, causing it to collapse and bury the worker. Michael Conway was also charged with two misdemeanor counts of second-degree reckless endangerment in the death ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday that the government intends to provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont. The announcement is the third award of direct financial support for a semiconductor company under the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act. The law enables the government to invest more than $52 ...
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ROCHESTER — After fits and starts, an ambitious local workforce initiative is poised to expand two years after Bloomberg Philanthropies awarded the city $1 million to bring women of color into the construction industry. The program, called Equity in the Built Environment, is launching a marketing campaign this month to encourage more BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) women to train ...
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Feb. 17—Some thought building 20% escalation costs into Orchard Park Central School District's $114 million capital project a couple of years ago was too much. Turns out, it wasn't nearly enough. Costs have gone up more than 50%, Superintendent David Lilleck said last week. Orchard Park is among districts running into inflation and a shortage of contractors willing to bid on building work ...
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ROCHESTER — This city could get as much as $22 million in additional revenue over the next six years from ongoing Mayo Clinic construction, according to area officials. That projected revenue could more than offset the cost to hire more staff in anticipation of the upcoming glut of construction across Rochester, city officials told the Rochester City Council Monday during a study session. The ...
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Feb. 12—As Zephyr Partners works to complete the first part of its new South Buffalo cannabis campus, the California-based developer owned by Brad Termini is already running afoul of key minority workforce requirements. As part of the land-sale agreement with the Buffalo Urban Development Corp., Zephyr agreed to comply with the city's standard requirements of 25% participation by ...
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