Helping to further the revitalization of Coney Island, the Wildlife Conservation Society has received approval from the New York City Public Design Commission for a new 50,000-sq-ft Photo Courtesy Of The Wildlife Conservation Society New York Aquarium The new Ocean Wonders: Shark exhibit is slated for completion in 2015. exhibit called “Ocean Wonders: Shark” at the nearly 115-year-old New York Aquarium in Coney Island, Brooklyn. “This exciting new shark exhibit will attract people from far and wide to visit the New York Aquarium,” said New York City Councilman Domenic M. Recchia Jr. “The revitalization of Coney Island is already attracting

After deeming Hoboken, New Jersey’s 14th Street Viaduct structurally deficient and functionally obsolete despite its history, Hudson County selected TranSystems and its team of Stantec, KS Engineers, and T.Y. Lin International/Medina to complete a replacement design for the 100-year-old viaduct. Rendering Courtesy Of Stantec 14th Street Viaduct Construction on the $40-million 14th Street Viaduct in Hoboken, N.J., is scheduled to be completed in mid-2013. Currently, the 14th Street Viaduct stretches almost ¼ of a mile and rises over 70 ft carrying over 20,000 vehicles per day. It is also considered an iconic landmark in the Hoboken skyline and a result,

On The Scene   February 7, 2011 Vornado Realty Trust’s The new cogeneration facility at Vornado’s One Penn Plaza, one of the ten largest commercial office buildings in New York City, was recently unveiled to the public as part of an ongoing program of sustainable upgrades across Vornado Realty Trust’s 22 million-sq-ft portfolio in the city. The 6.2-megawatt cogeneration plant at One Penn Plaza is the largest cogeneration facility in a commercial office building in New York City, supplying 50% of electricity usage for the building as well as reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint by 40%. Photo Courtesy

Construction is currently under way for the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission�s River Barge Park in Carlstadt, New Jersey lead by a team that includes DMR Architects of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey and general contractor, Arco Construction Group of Elizabeth, New Jersey. The NJMC had to first acquire four acres in Carlstadt, formerly known as the Barge Club, for redevelopment as a riverfront park with approximately 400-miles of shoreline in order to help preserve open space and provide public access to the Hackensack River. Rendering courtesy of DMR Architects River Barge Park will include a marina that will provide water access

A final design has been completed for the construction of the $150 million New Brunswick Gateway Transit Village, a 632,000-sq-ft mixed-use building located at the intersection of Somerset Street and Easton Avenue in downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey that will link the campus of Rutgers University as well as the larger community to the local train station. Rendering courtesy of Meltzer/Mandl Architects, PC Meltzer/Mandl Architects of  New York designed the transit village and completed the final documents for construction on the project which first broke ground in January 2010, on behalf of the development team including New Brunswick Development Corporation

By April, the power will go on in the $1.4-billion, 2-billion-gallon-per-day Catskill/Delaware Ultraviolet Disinfection Facility, the world�s largest. The plant is being built by the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection in a county to the north to deliver safe drinking water to the city�s nine million residents. Photo: Courtesy of Welsbach Electric Corp. Up to 2 billion gallons of water can pass through the plant�s four UV galleries every day. Welsbach is using 3D CAD to weave the 570,000 ft of conduit and 4.5 million ft of wire required to support the 56,480-volt UV units. “We are supposed

Through a $92 million contract, Skanska USA Building will construct two laboratory buildings at the City University of New York in Harlem, New York for the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York. Rendering courtesy of Skanska Construction has already begun on an approximate 474,000-sq-ft research building that will include laboratories, a cafeteria and a 100-seat lecture hall as well as an approximate 248,000-sq-ft second laboratory building for biology, chemistry and physics. Skanska has also recently completed two buildings for teaching and research for CUNY. The two laboratory buildings are scheduled for completion in the summer of 2014.

The Deutsche Bank fire trials have been postponed, ENR has learned.

Sam Schwartz Engineering, a transportation consulting company based in New York City has acquired Metro Transportation Group, Inc., a traffic engineering, planning and design and signal systems company based in Chicago in order to expand its Midwest operations. Photo by Kristin Golojuch Dave Miller “Metro brings to Sam Schwartz Engineering, a rich 30-year history of working on some of the most significant projects in Illinois and the region while significantly increasing our Midwest footprint,” said Rob Phillips, Executive Vice President and COO of Sam Schwartz Engineering. Metro’s major projects include the development of traffic management plan for Northwestern University, a