Category : Construction & Design

Developers complete giant green roof
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Developers complete giant green roof

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by REW1676
Queens is getting greener with a new 55,000 s/f green roof atop a Flushing luxury condo. Onex Real Estate Partners  teamed up with Blondie’s Treehouse to create one of Queens’ largest green roofs at the 448-unit  Grand at SkyView Parc at 40-28 College Point Boulevard . The roof, made of sedum plants, was...
City issues RFP for new movie campus
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City issues RFP for new movie campus

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by REW2426
New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) released a Request for Proposals (“RFP”) for an opportunity to develop nearly 200,000 s/f of waterfront real estate at the Made in New York (MiNY) Campus at Bush Terminal in Sunset Park into a...
Construction & Design

Crane count rises as building sector soldiers on

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by REW1238
Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB), the international property and construction consultancy, has released its latest Crane Index and Quarterly Cost Report. Announcing the new surveys, Julian Anderson, FRICS FAACE, President of RLB North America, said, “The increase in the net crane count indicates that the construction industry is prospering, despite a...
Construction & Design

ENGIE acquires Donnelly Corp.

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by REW1061
ENGIE North America Inc. has acquired Donnelly Mechanical Corporation, a mechanical, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), and energy services contractor headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in 1989 and has more than 200 employees serving customers in a range of industries from healthcare, to data centers,...
Construction & Design

Skanska celebrates opening of LaGuardia flyover ramp

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by REW1639
Skanska executives and employees working on the transformation of LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B celebrated the opening of a new flyover ramp at a press conference with Governor Andrew Cuomo and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Executive Director Rick Cotton, along with other elected officials. The new flyover...
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Watchdog group calls for evaluation of Project Labor Agreements

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by REW1589
A city watchdog group is calling for evaluations of the city’s labor agreements with New York’s building and construction union network. The Citizens Budget Commission, a nonprofit civic organization focused on the city and state’s finances, sent a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio in July requesting the city report...
Work underway on new Brooklyn park
Construction & Design

Work underway on new Brooklyn park

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by REW1965
Pennrose, Duvernay + Brooks and Blue Sea Development have begun construction on a new 0.75 acre park at Prospect Plaza, a new mixed use, 364 unit affordable housing redevelopment project in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The park is part of a partnership with the New York City...