Through Spanish construction and engineering company, Grupo Dragados SA and its subsidiary, Schiavone Construction of Secaucus, New Jersey, Grupo ACS has been awarded a new $447 million contract for the construction of the 72nd Street Station in Manhattan, part of the ongoing Second Avenue Subway Line project. The contract which was also signed by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority includes construction of the main cavern under Second Avenue which is approximately 1,056 ft long and 72 ft wide and is over 98 ft below ground level. It also includes maintenance and traffic control, monitoring of the existing buildings and

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has approved $2 million in planning work for a future 25,000-sq-ft terminal expansion of Stewart International Airport. The planning and design for the phased terminal expansion is being conducted by the Port Authority who first took on the operation of the airport in 2007 and is expected to be completed by December 2011. The first phase of the planned expansion will consist of expanding the north side of the terminal to construct an adequate federal inspection service facility and to increase overall capacity as well as allowing for the simultaneous processing

Construction has begun on Binghamton University�s $30 million New York State Center of Excellence in Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging building which will support more than 180 jobs per year throughout the construction process. Rendering courtesy of Binghamton University The new two-story, 114,000-sq-ft Center of Excellence is expected to be completed by January 2013. The new two-story, 114,000-sq-ft, metal and stone Center of Excellence facility will feature open laboratory space, a symposium hall and offices providing space for the expansion and consolidation of Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging and its team of scientists and engineers. The facility will

The $28 million first phase of a regional park in Far Rockaway, the fourth of eight regional parks proposed under PlaNYC, the city�s plan for a greener New York, has broken ground. The project will create a 13-acre park stretching from Beach 11th Street to Beach 17th Street and Beach 28th Street to Beach 32nd Street and contain such amenities as a synthetic turf football field, a performance venue, a skate park, a central lawn area, a climbing wall and a variety of sports courts. "The fact that we are moving forward on these projects in spite of the tough

Rendering courtesy of The S/L/A/M Collaborative The new North Clinical Tower will add approximately 300,000 sq ft to Danbury Hospital. Connecticut�s Danbury Hospital is set to expand with a new $150 million North Clinical Tower that will add approximately 300,000 sq ft to the hospital, the largest expansion in the 12-floor, 371-bed regional medical center and university teaching hospital�s history. The new North Clinical Tower Addition is being designed by The S/L/A/M Collaborative of Glastonbury, Connecticut to better align with the hospital�s mission of �a higher level of care� and will consist of a new main entry including a double

Rendering courtesy of the MTA The $176 million, 180,000-sq-ft Fulton Street Center is scheduled to open in 2014. A contract for the above and below-grade construction of the $176 million, 180,000-sq-ft, Fulton Street Transit Center has been awarded to Plaza Construction of New York who will serve as the General Contractor along with Schiavone Construction of Secaucus, New Jersey. Construction on the center which is said to modernize this major Manhattan subway complex began in December 2008 but Plaza Construction�s work isn�t scheduled to begin until this coming February following the erection of a tower crane in January. The scope

Work has begun on the 60,000-sq-ft Battery Park City Community Center located at the tip of Liberty Luxe and Liberty Green high-rise residential towers on North End Avenue in Downtown Manhattan. The facility which is being constructed by Stalco Construction of Islandia, New York aims to achieve LEED Platinum certification and will consist of a main lobby, adult swimming pool, children’s pool, gymnasium and fitness center, theater/auditorium, dance studios, classrooms, offices, lockers rooms, a cafeteria, kitchen, bathrooms, and storage and equipment rooms. Green design features and leading edge technological solutions that will be incorporated into the community center include light

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today killed the $8.7 billion Trans-Hudson River passenger rail tunnel project that was expected to double commuter train capacity between New Jersey and Manhattan. Christie said he feared cost overruns on the Access to the Region�s Core (ARC) project could cost the state between $2 billion and $5 billion, despite commitments of $3 billion each from the Federal Transit Administration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. �I will not allow taxpayers to fund projects that run over budget with no clear way of how these costs will be paid for,� Christie

The AECOM Technology Corp. acquisition juggernaut, running now for at least five years, is showing few signs of slowing down, despite the recession. The Los Angeles-based engineer said on Aug. 5 that it would spend a total of nearly $680 million to buy two more companies, less than a month after its $245-million purchase of Tishman Construction Co. propelled the firm deeper into the construction management business. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" AECOM announced an agreement to acquire Davis Langdon, a U.K.-based cost and project management consultant, for $324 million. The much-rumored purchase is set to add 2,800 global

Corgan Associate’s Dallas office announced three new associates to add to its team of professionals with expertise in aviation and interior design. Dan Hursin, Ginger Gee and Shelly Nichols were promoted to associate. Gee received a bachelor’s degree in interior design from Harding University in Arkansas and received her master’s of architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" STG Design in Austin announced the promotion of two team members, PollyAnna Little and Jeff Ervin. Little has been promoted to principal and Ervin to associate principal. Little is a graduate of the University of