Preserving ecosystems or restoring history mattered for NY-NJ submissions

Span's replacement team takes aim at hurdles

The Portageville Bridge is the first true arch bridge built for the railroad industry since the 1940s.

The 365,000-sq-ft, 18-story NYU Langone Health Science Building was in the design phase when Hurricane Sandy deluged the campus, prompting the project owner to mandate that the team implement major overhauls in hardening the building and its infrastructure.

With a punched-window aesthetic and masonry-toned, ultra-high-strength concrete cladding, Rutgers University’s Nursing and Science Building harkens to the past.

The Bloomberg Center, a four-story, 150,000-sq-ft academic building, is the showpiece of Cornell Tech’s 12-acre campus on Roosevelt Island.

The $375-million, 628,000-sq-ft eight-story Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences was designed and built from the ground up to meet LEED Gold requirements.

For the renovation of  St. Luke’s Hospital, the team designed and constructed 44 separate projects within an 18-month period.