Items Tagged with 'Brooklyn'

Sylvia Smith, ENR New York Legacy Award winner, fulfilled her mission as a pioneering partner at Brooklyn-based FXCollaborative.

High winds and a tight schedule made replacement of two tower elevator systems and upgrades to locks, gates, counterweights and mechanical components on the nearly 90-year-old Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge no easy feat.

Resilience work at developing New York City manufacturing and tech hub is set to restore infrastructure damaged by 2012 Hurricane Sandy and other storms

The Sunset Park public library project in Brooklyn not only revitalized one of the borough’s busiest branches, it also combines public library facilities with 100% affordable housing—a first for New York City, says the project team.

The project revitalized a historic 1920s-era French Baroque theater —that once hosted Buddy Holly & the Crickets, Chuck Berry, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald—by preserving its former grandeur while integrating modern technologies to meet today’s performance standards.

Working under a design-build delivery approach, the team completed replacement of two tower elevator systems on the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, a 540-ft-long vertical lift span built in 1937, and rehabilitated mechanical components, including the span locks. 

A decade after Superstorm Sandy flooded New York City’s largest transit rail yard complex, the combined Stillwell Avenue Yard, Avenue X Yard and Coney Island Yard now boast enhanced resilience to withstand future storms.

Flooding and other building damage from Superstorm Sandy in 2012 is a distant memory following capital improvements that included a 10-story addition, interior renovations, resilient power systems and a new 4-ft-high floodwall.

The Adams Street branch is the first new library built in Brooklyn since 1983 and the first branch constructed in the DUMBO neighborhood—the result of dozens of meetings with community members aimed at providing new resources for the area and fostering civic literacy.

A 471,000-sq-ft residential high-rise in Brooklyn’s Coney Island will get sustainable heating and cooling from underground wells when open in 2024.