A few months after the ribbon was cut on two new schools in Newark, an ambitious multi-block redevelopment project has broken ground with three new apartment buildings intended to house the schools' teachers as well as other city educators. Rendering by TEKTEN, Courtesy of RBH Group Creating A Community: The 410,000-sq-ft project is attempting to fashion a vibrant mini-neighborhood with low-slung stores, homes and schools. Photo by Matthew Hochberger, Courtesy of Arup Making Progress: With two of the six planned buildings completed and three more under way, the $160-million project is coming to life. Related Links: ENR New York More
What does it take to do a massive spire-to-sidewalk, inside-to-outside restoration of one of Manhattan's best-known landmark churches? The crew assigned to the three-year, $177-million upgrade of St. Patrick's Cathedral has found it comes down to preparation, coordination and an enormous amount of scaffolding. Related Links: ENR New York More ENR New York Projects The project includes replacing marble on the facade and interior of the historic structure, which looms from Fifth to Madison avenues and from East 50th to East 51st streets and is on the list of National Historic Landmarks. It also involves repairing or replacing more than
Work is ongoing on Stamford Hospital's $450-million expansion as crews are in the process of erecting the structural steel for a new building that broke ground in May. Rendering Courtesy of WHR Architects Expanding for the Future: The expansion project will add 641,463 sq ft of space to the existing hospital. Related Links: Outlook 2014: Sandy Work Still Helping Region's Gradual Recovery ENR New York More ENR New York Projects Upon completion in the summer of 2016, the project will have added 641,463 sq ft to the hospital, whose main campus is a collection of buildings with some dating back
More than $10 billion of bridge projects are either under way or about to start in the metro New York City area, most with multiyear plans that bode well for industry, executives say. Photo Courtesy of PANYNJ Closing In: Construction on the $1.5-billion Goethals Bridge replacement project may begin as soon as the end of this year, a PANYNJ spokesman says. Photo Courtesy of CCA Civil All Hands on Deck: Work to replace the deck of the Pulaski Skyway, part of NJDOT's rehabilitation program, is expected to start next year. Related Links: Outlook 2014: Sandy Work Still Helping Region's Gradual
Las Vegas-based developer Triple Five Worldwide Development Co. expects to announce its construction team for the long-stalled $2.2-billion American Dream Meadowlands project as early as first quarter of 2014, a Triple Five spokesman says. Construction would start soon after and take 18 to 24 months to complete, says Alan Marcus, president and CEO of the Marcus Group, Little Falls, N.J., which represents Triple Five. Rendering Courtesy of GH+A A reawakening: A team may be chosen as early as the first quarter of 2014 for the long-delayed $2.2-billion project. Related Links: Outlook 2014: Sandy Work Still Helping Region's Gradual Recovery ENR
it may be more than a year since Superstorm Sandy pummeled the tristate region, but its powerful punch is still fueling industry activity and is expected to continue contributing to a gradual recovery. While emergency repair work flourished in nearly all sectors immediately after the late-October 2012 storm, rebuilding efforts in some regions have helped boost the 2013 bottom lines of many firms, industry executives say. Sandy-related activity is expected to continue into 2014, both in terms of rebuilding and as the public and private sectors fine-tune longer-term resiliency plans. Related Links: Lessons Learned From a Superstorm Outlook 2013: Recovery
To transform a 120-year-old dormitory into the new $38-million Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University, the team had to build a new steel structure within the existing historical facade.
The design-build team constructing this New Britain police station had just 30 months to complete the 91,300-sq-ft structure, including six months of early design time.
The team tackling Contract C of the New York State Capitol Building Restoration project was well aware of the basic safety compliance mandates for an undertaking of this scope.
This $48-million project focused on the east quadrant of the historic New York State Capitol building in Albany, a 19th-century structure that took more than 25 years to build and had five architects.
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