The 300-room citizenM New York Bowery Hotel in Manhattan took a momentous detour from its original cast-in-place concrete design—switching to a module system and resulting in the country’s tallest modular hotel.
Building the nonprofit Fisher House Foundation’s two 16-bedroom houses—where military and veterans’ families can stay free of charge while a loved one is receiving care at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Bronx—was no typical homebuilding effort.
After a Schenectady, N.Y., factory that produced enamels, varnishes and other resins for more than 80 years—and had a history of chemical spills—finally closed in 1997, New York’s environmental authorities designated the property a state Superfund site for both groundwater and soil contamination.
A $60-million expansion and modernization effort has transformed the Elmira-Corning Regional Airport terminal from an outdated, crowded facility where airlines couldn’t grow their operations into a state-of-the-art hub—all without disrupting regular operations.
The $8-billion redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B received the award for Best Project, Excellence in Safety, in part because of its 'plan-do-check-act' process