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A one-acre, 92-ft-high glass canopy roof and skylight atop New York City’s Moynihan Train Hall was always going to be a centerpiece of the $1.6-billion transit center that expands capacity for the bustling Pennsylvania Station across the street in midtown Manhattan.

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Updates about construction professionals in New York, New Jersey and New England. The Moles cite two regional executives as 2022 member and non-member awardees for achievement, with awards dinner event set for Jan. 19 in New York City.

Reports from key industry events across the New York region.

Dodge offers data on 2021 construction starts for billings in the Providence area.

Dodge offers data on 2021 construction starts for billings in the New York area.

Built to be resilient against future sea level rise, the mixed-use development on East Boston’s waterfront transformed an underutilized area into an active and publicly accessible extension of its surrounding neighborhood.

The COVID-19 outbreak clearly challenged the construction industry worldwide. Nevertheless, many project teams working across New England managed to more than endure during a difficult 2020.

Completed on budget and on schedule, the $165-million recreation center was the college’s largest capital project and one of the nation’s first complexes to integrate five major athletic venues in a single construction project.

This $21-million, 65,000-sq-ft building celebrates Gloucester’s maritime history. The steel and light-gauge metal frame construction includes solar panels, electric car chargers, cogeneration power systems and polished concrete floorings that eliminate floor coverings and adhesives.

Hurricane Irene devastated Vermont’s oldest fish hatchery, the Roxbury Fish Culture Station, when it tore through the state a decade ago in August 2011.

When Sacred Heart University became the tenant, what began as a “white box” renovation to save the deteriorating building was transformed into a total custom fit-out midway through construction to renovate and expand this 20,000-sq-ft, century-old community theater. 

This $18-million multifamily boutique project, completed at budget and on schedule, was named after the Inuit goddess of the sea.

The YWCA has operated out of its downtown Worcester, Mass., location for the past 60 years with little or no capital improvement.

Once a fortress-like bunker, the former Powder House Community School was transformed into an inclusive, intergenerational urban village through the extensive collaborative efforts of the CALA project team. 

This 10-story, mixed-use high-rise built on the site of the old Spinney & Caldwell Shoe Factory was completed at budget, but it fell behind schedule amid COVID-19.

The primary goal of this $17-million project was to construct and commission two large dry rooms in 15 weeks as part of an effort to make more than 2 million COVID-19 test kits per week. 

Lendlease (US) Construction LMB Inc. surmounted both construction and safety challenges with the Pfizer Plasmid DNA – Suites GH project in Andover, Mass.

The new school, which has 1,360 students, was designed to support a STEAM-based curriculum that includes “learning pods, flexible project areas, makerspaces and tech shops including a woodshop, broadcast studio, coding and web/graphic design lab and 3D design and computer-aided design labs,” according to the project team.

While replacing the existing 15-ft-long concrete slab bridge for this $7.2-million project, the team faced challenges that included compressible soils and tidal conditions. Because a sealed cofferdam was not employed, all work was conducted during 8-ft tidal cycles.

Reconstructing a busy roadway is tough under any circumstances. But undertaking such a major project at Logan International Airport, where hundreds of thousands of passengers arrive and depart each week in cars and buses, presented a host of challenges. 

This 45,000-sq-ft, $30.5-million project includes flexible classrooms, huddle spaces, makerspace and a sports lab for instruction and competition.

With a construction schedule developed around the Endicott College’ academic calendar, detailed coordination and meticulous schedule management were critical on the $44.5-million Samuel C. Wax Academic Center.

One of the first large-scale multifamily Passive House-certified  developments in Massachusetts, this $34.2-million project was also the largest new multifamily affordable housing projects in Cambridge in 40 years. 

The $46-million emergency department expansion and renovation would have been challenging under the best of circumstances.

The team preserved and restored the iconic Indiana limestone exterior of this 350,00-sq-ft, 1931-era Hartford, Conn. landmark with Art Deco features while the interior was fully gutted and renovated to create a modern office layout for state employees. 

The decade long project to replace water siphons serving residents of Staten Island in New York City produced multiple challenges for the construction team.

After hosting numerous memorable sporting events during its 40-year history, the Carrier Dome achieved a landmark of its own with the replacement of its original air-supported roof—the last of its kind in the U.S.

Known as the Spiral, the 66-floor skyscraper in Hudson Yards used two main hoisting towers to quickly transport workers and material.

Stabilization of the wall strengthens the city’s waterfront business corridor against rising flood levels and protects an adjacent wastewater interceptor sewer.

Sustainability, history, quality and safety were themes throughout the process of replacing a deteriorated timber-decked bridge above a NJ Transit rail line with a high-strength prestressed single-span concrete box beam superstructure fabricated off site to help expedite construction.

Located beneath three active rail lines at Rotterdam Junction, N.Y., the 107-ft-long reinforced concrete pedestrian tunnel is among the last components to complete the 750-mile Empire State Trail.

At 900 ft tall, this luxury residential condominium is New Jersey’s tallest building. With more than 780 units, the limestone and glass curtain wall clad skyscraper’s wing shape maximizes views and provides a slender profile on the skyline.

The 850,000-sq-ft project consists of two residential buildings connected by a mixed-use podium and surrounded by an acre of public open space along the Brooklyn waterfront, helping transform the area from its industrial roots to a dynamic gateway neighborhood.

This waterfront hotel—the first to be built in Camden in more than 50 years—is part of a mixed-use urban neighborhood on the banks of the Delaware River that will include up to 1.2 million sq ft of office space, apartments, retail and an upgraded public park.

Clad in a custom curtain wall system and offering nearly 500 residences, the tower offers a variety of recreational amenities.

Challenges of this project included incorporating new MEP systems, a building-wide air barrier and other modern comforts while maintaining the nearly 90-year-old structure’s historic status.

This 175-year-old church required a unique combination of expertise to preserve and restore intricate historic elements while incorporating new building infrastructure technology.

Built in 1928 as the Leverich Towers Hotel, the Brooklyn Heights property is now an upscale senior living facility.<

Set atop two landfills that had restricted visual and physical access to Jamaica Bay, the 407-acre park helps visitors enjoy the site’s natural beauty with elements of ecological restoration.

The 12-story, 89,000-sq-ft building provides needed space for the growing school’s programs while also establishing a new campus gateway.

The renovated theater reopens with a fresh interior design and new hospitality spaces that celebrate its deep history. The former main concert hall was transformed into a double-story rock ballroom that blends traditional motifs from its former days as a 19th-century hotel with edgy details that reference its 20th-century use for progressive gatherings pushing for social change.

Situated in the center of campus, the three-story, 50,000-sq-ft building houses classrooms, instructional and research labs, simulation and training rooms, collaboration and community spaces, and faculty offices.

Totaling 100,000 sq ft across two floors, the tenant improvement project in New York City aimed to provide employees with secure, soundproof spaces to work and communicate with clients, according to the team submission that did not disclose the project owner at the client’s request.

Revamping the pedestrian connection between Brooklyn Heights Promenade and Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1 began with the removal of the existing wood and steel structure, situated between ten- and six-story buildings above a below-grade parking facility and extending into an active park.

As a first-of-its-kind, multi-use facility, the three-story, 115,000-sq-ft building provides a singular space for the university’s veteran- and military-focused programs and organizations to work, learn, gather and celebrate.

The largest facility of its type in Brooklyn, the 400,000-sq-ft ambulatory care center houses 12 state-of-the-art operating rooms with specialty video systems, associated private pre-/post-op rooms for outpatient procedures, central sterile and scope processing facilities, a cancer center with a compounding pharmacy, and specialty areas for cardiology, orthopedics and imaging.

In just 60 days, the project team converted three hospital floors into a 120-bed intensive care unit to meet New York City’s urgent need for COVID-19 treatment facilities.

Designed to create a patient-centered, healing environment, the eight-level inpatient pavilion might easily be mistaken for a five-star hotel.

This four-story, 150,000-sq-ft building houses 11 courtrooms for the Tax Court of New Jersey, a variety of Essex County administrative departments and a large cafeteria and kitchen area fitted with the latest food preparation technology.

Major high-rise projects in dense urban settings are often intentionally isolated from nearby buildings. Not so with One Vanderbilt, says the project team for the landmark $1.4-billion, 1.7-million-sq-ft skyscraper in east midtown Manhattan.

There’s plenty of function to go with the unique form of this park situated on top of the Hudson River.