The owner of Grand Central Terminal, Andrew Penson, is suing the city of New York for $1.1 billion, following the city’s green-lighting the construction of a 65-story tower nearby, called One Vanderbilt.
Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon New York University’s School of Engineering has received a $100 million dollar donation, and will be renamed NYU Tandon School of Engineering to pay tribute to the benefactors, Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon.
A solar farm proposed for Oneida in Madison County would be one of the largest in Upstate New York, covering ten acres of land. The city signed a 25-year power purchase agreement with Vermont-based company groSolar to build the solar farm, which will feature roughly 9,000 3 by 3 ft solar panels. It will generate 3.5 million kilowatts of electricity, covering about 90% of the city’s electricity needs. “The city recently completed a climate action plan to review potential strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meet sustainability goals,” said Jon Rauscher, city engineer. “We identified solar
The Dept. of Transportation issued a bid solicitation last month for additional repair work on the Brooklyn Bridge with no connection to the current major rehabilitation project.The $600 million dollar construction project currently underway is the first major repair to the bridge since 1958. After being delayed for decades due to the high cost, the bridge earned a “poor” condition rating by the state in 2007, and renovations began in 2010.The project has faced several obstacles since breaking ground. Earlier this year, completion was pushed back once again following the discovery of 3,000 structural “flags”
After opposing former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed plan to fill open space owned by the New York City Housing Authority with mostly market rate housing, Mayor Bill de Blasio has revealed his own plan to help agency with its financial struggles.
Courtesy of Stephen Chernin, Associated Press After the longest civil trial in Manhattan Supreme Court history, a jury found James Lomma liable for the 2008 crane collapse that killed Donald Leo, 30, and Ramadan Kurtaj, 27—ordering the crane magnate to pay the families of the victims a total of $96 million.
Courtesy of SURE HOUSE The students at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., have completed work on the SURE HOUSE, an energy efficient house that’s been built to better withstand storms with the force of Hurricane Sandy.
About 50 middle school students from a Las Vegas public school technical academy kicked off the summer with a three-day stay at an engineering students camp in Mount Vernon, Wash.
