Tag: new york

June 14, 2023

A recently completed, $16.6 million infrastructure project in Queens used porous pavement to allow nearly 1.3 million gallons of stormwater to be absorbed back into the ground instead of flowing into the sewer system, according to a June 13 press […]

May 1, 2023

After Berkeley, California, became the nation’s first city to ban natural gas hookups in new buildings in 2019, dozens of local governments followed suit, including New York City in 2021. At the state level, Washington state and California have encouraged […]

February 23, 2023

Despite New York’s rise, the number of construction workers who died on the job across the country in 2021 dropped 2.2%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Both New York state’s fatality rate and New York City’s — 11.2 […]

January 6, 2023

The New York State Dept. of Transportation awarded a $446-million contract for the third and final phase of work on the $1.7-billion Hunts Point Access Improvement Project, after work on the first phase of the New York CIty project finished […]

October 19, 2022

New York state and city officials are planning to build a public health and life sciences campus in New York City at an expected cost of $1.6 billion. A master plan for the Science Park and Research Campus Kips Bay, […]

September 20, 2022

New York City Commissioner of Transportation Ydanis Rodriguez sees his mission very clearly. “We believe in implementing infrastructure that meets people’s needs.” His goal, which aligns with that of Mayor Eric Adams, is to make the city the “safest in […]

February 17, 2022

The data analysis comes from the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), an independent labor group with membership of workers, unions, activists and health and safety professionals. “New York should be a national leader in worker safety, […]

February 10, 2022

New York City’s ban on unvaccinated employees has left construction pros doing business there questioning how to comply with the rule and who will enforce it. Since December, workers have been required to show proof of at least one dose […]

January 21, 2022

A New York construction industry advisory group, created under a law Gov. Kathy Hochul signed in December, will study and recommend adjustments to state public contracting to address damages incurred by contractors, subcontractors and others because of payment delays on […]

January 4, 2022

A new state law in New York promotes low-embodied-carbon concrete for public projects, and activists are hoping to get another bill passed this year that will push it further to meet carbon emissions goals. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the bill, […]

August 16, 2021

A bill to reform New York State’s public contracting process is under review by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The bill, originated by the New York Electrical Contractors Association, would create a 21-member Construction Industry Advisory Council on Public Contracting Reform to […]

August 10, 2021

The pandemic-delayed plan to build a privately financed Terminal 6 at New York City’s JFK International Airport is back on track, following an Aug. 5 vote by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Board of Commissioners to […]

August 2, 2021

Several U.S. cities rank in the top 10 most expensive urban areas for building construction worldwide, according to a survey by global professional services company Turner & Townsend. After Tokyo, the costliest construction market at $4,002 per sqm, and Hong […]

June 10, 2021

This month, the New York City Department of Buildings deployed teams of enforcement inspectors to perform safety inspections at the city’s larger and more complex construction sites. The action followed the deaths of three construction workers over a two-week period. […]

June 8, 2021

Under the legislation, the contractor — defined as the construction manager, general/prime contractor or joint venture which entered into contract with the owner — will be liable for unpaid wages owed to a worker by any subcontractor on any level […]

March 3, 2021

Applauding the de Blasio administration’s decision was Carlo A. Scissura, president and CEO of the New York Building Congress. Resuming work on the $17 billion initiative, he said in a press release, is an acknowledgment of the key role that […]

February 25, 2021

The legislation requires all coroners and medical examiners to report construction industry workplace deaths within 72 hours to New York State’s Department of Labor, which is tasked with maintaining the registry. Once that information is cataloged, DOL is then charged […]

January 27, 2021

Laws for noncompliance with safety standards have slowly been phased in since Mayor Bill De Blasio signed Local Law 196 in 2017, in an attempt to create safer jobsites. If a DOB site inspector identifies untrained workers on the job, […]

November 18, 2020

Despite the fact that Manhattan’s office towers remain 85% unoccupied, according to the New York Post, the One Madison Avenue development team is betting on a revival of the sector once COVID-19 has passed. The most likely tenants for the […]

July 7, 2020

Just weeks after New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced it was beginning its largest capital program ever, COVID-19 hit the region, and the area quickly became the epicenter of the coronavirus infection in the U.S. As the state grappled with […]