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

A year ago, signs of the construction market’s collapse were as clear as a crisp autumn day – backlogs were drying up, revenues were swept away, sputtering projects went dormant, and new work was nowhere on the bare landscape. And in the midst of that chill in November 2009, Structure Tone, a New York contractor with a $3 billion book, jumped on an acquisition of L.F. Driscoll, a Philadelphia market leader with $650 million in work. Most market observers say the construction sector’s swoon actually opened a prime season of mergers and acquisitions, a time for strong firms to not

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

Industry Faces  October 1, 2010 NYBC and New York Construction Co-Sponsor Construction Industry Forum The New York Building Congress and New York Construction recently co-sponsored a Construction Industry Luncheon Forum at the Hilton in New York City. From left: U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler, Richard T. Anderson of the New York Building Congress, NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Michael McNally of Skanska USA, Raymond Daddazio of Weidlinger Associates and U.S. Representative Michael McMahon.(Photo by Bob Wallace) The Real Estate Lenders Association recently held their Seventh Annual Thomas E. Sasso Memorial Golf Outing at the Metropolis Club in White Plains, New York. The

In April, we release our Top Contractor rankings, in which we gather surveys filled out by contractors throughout the region that show us their regional revenue numbers from the previous year. Come August, we do the same with specialty contractors. In October, we turn our eye toward design and architecture firms. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" These numbers represent a quick way to show our readers what may be going elsewhere, outside the walls of their own firms. In the top design rankings that begin on page 51 of this issue we see some interesting trends. Most of them,

Plans for the redevelopment and expansion of Delta Air Lines Terminal 4 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport have been unveiled after being approved by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Work on the $1.2 billion project began this September and is said to generate approximately 10,000 airport and construction-related jobs over the next three years. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The expansion of Terminal 4’s Concourse B includes the replacement of outdated facilities, the addition of nine new international gates sized to accommodate larger aircraft and the construction of a connector between Terminal