Category : Construction & Design

Brookfield opens WTC pedestrian concourse
Construction & Design

Brookfield opens WTC pedestrian concourse

REW Staff
by REW Staff1150
The Port Authority, Westfield Group and Brookfield Office Properties announced the opening of a critical pedestrian link between the World Trade Center PATH Station and Brookfield Place Pavilion. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Westfield Group and Brookfield Office Properties recently celebrated the opening of the World Trade Center West Concourse, restoring a critical pedestrian transit connection lost on September 11, 2001.
De Niros partner on Shanghai hospitality project
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De Niros partner on Shanghai hospitality project

REW Staff
by REW Staff939
Robert De Niro and his son, Douglas Elliman broker Raphael, this morning announced a plan for a major new hotel and retail concept in Shanghai. The De Niros are partnering with Ira Drukier and Richard Born of BD Hotels, Sam Natapoff of Empire Global Ventures LLC, Wilson Lu of Amerasia S&T Corp, and Tribeca Enterprises for the project dubbed Project 179 on Nanjing Road in the waterfront Bund district in central Shanghai, which serves as the financial capital of China. The actor signed the agreement in Shanghai in a signing ceremony with the property’s owner, the Shanghai Bund Investment Group.
Project managers, Cumming, to expand in New York
Construction & Design

Project managers, Cumming, to expand in New York

REW Staff
by REW Staff980
Cumming, an international project management and cost consulting firm, will further expand its East Coast presence with the opening of a New York office and the hiring of veteran talent. Supporting a nationwide growth plan, the construction management firm’s Midtown office located at 60 East 42nd Street will focus on...
Swedes design a storm-proof Far Rockaway
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Swedes design a storm-proof Far Rockaway

REW Staff
by REW Staff866
A team of Swedish architects has won a competition to design a new storm-proof Far Rockaway community. White Arkitekter, based in Stockholm, will design the mixed-use, mixed income development on an 80+ acre City-owned site called Arverne East. The company's designs were selected from over 100 submissions from 20 countries in the FAR ROC competition as the best for building a sustainable and storm-resilient community that will meet the new physical and regulatory challenges of waterfront development while still being affordable.
Construction & Design

No room for error as data center sector continues to evolve

REW Staff
by REW Staff597
First the good news: “If you’re involved in building and designing data centers, you’re in one of the fastest changing, most exciting, and most challenging and complex areas of technology and construction there is today,” said Robert E. McFarlane, principal of Shen Milsom Wilke, LLC. McFarlane was speaking at Professional Women in Construction’s (PWC) recent Data Center Technology Forum held at Club 101 in NYC. The caveat from McFarlane: “There’s no room for error.” The program provided an opportunity to meet some of the most significant owners, developers, designers, engineers, managers and builders, of today’s modern data center environments.
Another Rose building blooms in Brooklyn
Construction & DesignResidential

Another Rose building blooms in Brooklyn

REW Staff
by REW Staff697
Get an eyeful of this. Developer Jonathan Rose Companies has been tapped to build the new mixed-use, mixed-income building on the north site of the Brooklyn Academy of Music dubbed “EyeBAM.” The Mayor’s Office and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development announced last week that the...
Construction & Design

Contractors call for scaffold law reform

REW Staff
by REW Staff830
Correction appended Representatives from the construction and real estate industries testified at a New York State Senate Forum on Insurance Reform on the need to curb the rising cost of insurance as a result of New York State’s Scaffold Law. The Scaffold Law, which dates back to 1885, imposes absolute...