Category : Construction & Design

The Subcontractors Trade Association (STA) recently honored Frederick Elghanayan, president and co-founder of TF Cornerstone, a New York City real estate development firm, for his impact on the New York real estate market and commitment to excellence and integrity in construction.

By Al Barbarino   The Connecticut Laborers’ District Council has launched an “organizing campaign action” against the developer of the Harbor Point real estate project – Norwalk, Connecticut-based Building and Land Technology – and out-of-state subcontractor Baker Concrete. The group plans to protest in front of the main construction entrance...

Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri last week kicked off the Department’s 8th annual Construction Safety Week with the 2012 Build Safe/Live Safe Conference at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. More than 350 construction professionals and government regulators attended the day-long conference where the Department unveiled its latest safety initiative, 3D...

AS RESIDENTIAL SPENDING NUDGES UP, GOVERNMENT SPENDING IS HEADED DOWN Overall construction spending in New York City reached $27.4 billion in 2011, a 3.5 percent … Continued

It was a good year: the Yankees won the World Series, Jack Nicklaus won the US Open Golf Championship, and the first Target store opened. It was 50 years ago, 1962, and it was the year that Bob Bellini got started in the plumbing business. “I started the company with...

Capital spending by the City of New York will remain near record levels through Fiscal Year 2013, according to a New York Building Congress analysis of the City of New York’s Preliminary Fiscal Year 2013 Budget. However, the longer-term forecast of spending and new commitments drops to levels not seen...