The City University of New York and NYU Langone Medical Center are joining together to create a 25,000-sq-ft, state-of-the-art urban health science simulation training facility located on the third floor of Bellevue Hospital at 462 First Avenue. The New York Simulation Center for Health Sciences is being designed by Ballinger Associates of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and will feature eight simulation rooms including operating rooms, a wet room/disaster training room, ICU/trauma rooms and 14 patient examination rooms, as well as conference and classroom space. The new center will train a range of health professionals including students, staff and residents from the NYU

Langan Engineering & Environmental Services of Elmwood Park, New Jersey has acquired Treadwell & Rollo, a San Francisco-based geotechnical and environmental engineering firm helping to attain nationwide reach and shared access to technical resources. The acquisition is a first in the 40-year history of Langan, a privately held consulting firm with 500 employees in 14 offices around the world. 70 professionals from Treadwell & Rollo�s California offices in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Sacramento will be added to Langan. �Two elite firms with more than 60 years combined experience have joined forces to grow our client-focused business,� said David

The New York Building Congress recently released its annual construction forecast, predicting an increase in construction activity for 2011. But Building Congress President Dick Anderson tempered the optimism by saying it�s an outlook that depends heavily on public spending at a time when those dollars may be harder to obtain. “It’s the most guarded outlook we have put out since we started the series a decade ago,” he said. The Building Congress’ New York City Construction Outlook 2010-2012 annual forecast and analysis reports in 2010 a 23% drop occurred in construction spending from 2008, $23.7 billion down from $31 billion,

New York-based Perkins Eastman and Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, two international design and architecture firms have announced that they will be merging their practices, totaling nearly 600 employees. EE&K specializes in the conceptualization and design of large-scale mixed-use urban projects and brings a 50-year record of innovative educational facility design, a distinguished portfolio of historic preservation and adaptive reuse as well as a growing practice in China and Vietnam. Perkins Eastman is one of the top architectural firms in the world and will bring added strength to EE&K�s core interests including campus planning and building design, according to Stan

Alamo Iron Works in San Antonio announced the appointment of Francis “Duffy” Shea as president of the company. In this position, he will be responsible for all aspects of AIW’s steel and industrial supply business. Shea has over two decades of experience in the industrial marketplace and supply distribution. LJA employees earn Professional Engineer�s Licenses from the state of Texas. LJA Engineering Inc. announced that five employees in the firm’s Houston office recently received Professional Engineer’s License from the State of Texas. They are: Jared Ciarella, PE, Sean Wallace, PE, Mehdi Nezami, PE, Jeff Ebersole, PE and Amanda Carriage, PE,

Industry Faces  November 1, 2010 NY Jets Show Off New Stadium to Building Congress E-J Electric Installation Co. participated in the Second Annual Hudson Valley Bike Ride in support of the Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services and helped to raise over $550,000. Pictured on the left is Anthony Mann, President, E-J Electric Installation Co. and Board President, JBFCS finishing the race. Pictured on the right isTony Mann (fifth from the left)with Neil Freedman (fourth from the left), Director of Kaplan House and Kaplan House Residents. The Subcontractors Trade Association held their Annual Golf Outing at the Cherry Valley Club

Robert A. Olmsted, the first director of long-term planning for New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and a transportation engineer, builder, historian and industry mentor for more than 60 years, died on Aug. 16 in Manhattan. He was 85. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Olmsted—a descendent of Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed New York City’s Central Park—began his own industry career in the late 1940s as a Cornell University engineering graduate on the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. A protégé of Ole Singstad, the innovative structure’s chief engineer, Olmsted went on to work for other New York-area

New York based Spector Group, a city planning and design firm announced the opening of its newest overseas location in Mumbai, India. The new office comes less than a year after the opening of Spector Group’s Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates office and is located at 303 Kushal Apt, Shahaji Raje Marge in Ville Parle, in the heart of the Mumbai’s business district. Photo courtesy of The Boreland Group Spector Group’s new Mumbai office will be managed by principal Marc B. Spector from the United States offices. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Spector Group principal Marc B. Spector, who

The $74.8 million project to improve access on the Staten Island Expressway on a 1.9-mile section between Lily Pond Road and Clove Road has broken ground. Image courtesy of Federal Highway Administration The $74.8 million Staten Island Expressway Recovery project will improve a 1.9-mile section by widening overpasses and adding lanes and is expected to be completed by summer 2012. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The project which includes the addition of lanes and ramps, the widening of overpasses and the realigning and leveling of the highway’s steepest curves in order to help with its infamous traffic received the

Call it Underground Zero. In the middle of the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, workers are performing an intricate balancing act with steel and concrete, excavating beneath an active subway line while a number of other projects progress around them. The top-down permanent underpinning of the subway tunnel will create much-needed space for a new nearby iconic transit station as well as other facilities. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" No. 1 subway line runs through a structural box on grade that traverses north-south about 1,000 ft across Ground Zero, just feet from a Port Authority of New York