News Mini industrial tower set for Queens NYC New York developer Innovo Property Group plans to build a six-story industrial building in the Borden Innovation District on Review Ave in Queens. Set for completion in the autumn of…
News Skanska win $861m deal to turn South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into ‘wind port’ Norwegian energy company Equinor has chosen Skanska for a $861m project to turn the 73-acre South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in New York into an “offshore wind port”. The scope includes…
News $100m for expansion of New York’s Ellis Island migrant museum The Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation is to spend $100m on the refurbishment and extension of a museum that recalls the history of migration to New York. The 34-year-old, 137,000…
News New York training school charged with issuing 20,000 fake safety certificates Six people have been accused of running a construction safety training school in the US that issued certificates to some 20,000 students who did not undertake the 40 hours of…
News Arcadis team wins role on $16bn New York transport corridor A joint venture between Dutch engineer Arcadis, British contractor Mace and American consultant Parsons has been chosen as the delivery partner for the $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project. The scheme involves…
News Major affordable housing complex tops out in Brooklyn Friday saw the topping out of New York City real estate company Douglaston Development’s 1057 Atlantic Avenue, a 474,000-sq-ft, 456-unit multifamily rental development in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood.
News Staten Island to get first new recreation centre in 14 years New York City mayor Eric Adams oversaw the groundbreaking ceremony for the $92m Mary Cali Dalton Recreation Center in Tompkinsville, Staten Island on Friday.
News Google set to move into renovated 1930s train terminal in New York Work has been completed on a 1930s train terminal in New York’s Tribeca neighbourhood that is to become to 3,000 Google staff. The St John’s Terminal (SJT) was the last…
News Bjarke Ingels Group unveils its design for Manhattan’s Freedom Plaza Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has unveiled its design for the “Freedom Plaza”, a civic and cultural hub on the shores of Manhattan’s East River. The project, which is being developed…
News Skanska picked to revamp fuel system at LaGuardia Airport Skanska has won a $113m contract from LGA Fuel to build LaGuardia Airport’s new fuel transmission systems in Queens, New York. The work involves installing 11,000 feet of two parallel…
News SOM’s supertall New York office tower complete The 285m-tall Two Manhattan West skyscraper, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), has been completed. The tower is located on the corner of Ninth Avenue and West 31st Street,…
News Skanska to replace 21 escalators in New York subway Skanska has won a $146m contract from New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to replace 21 subway escalators throughout the city. The design-build project also sees the company upgrading escalator machine…
News 14 hospitalised for carbon monoxide poisoning on building site Fourteen people were hospitalised at a construction project in New Haven, Connecticut, after potentially fatal levels of carbon monoxide accumulated in a building undergoing renovation, AP reports. The cause of…
News Floating plus-shaped pool to open in New York in 2025 Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, announced that $16m would spent to fund the testing of the “+ POOL”, a swimming pool in the shape of a plus that floats in…
News Construction firm pleads guilty after fatal fall on its property A construction firm in Long Island, New York pleaded guilty on Friday (5 January) to three criminal charges after a worker fell from a roof on the company’s own property…
News Foster + Partners’ JPMorgan Chase skyscraper tops out in Manhattan at 423m The final steel beam for 270 Park Avenue has been lifted into place, marking the topping out of JPMorgan Chase’s 423m skyscraper in Manhattan, designed by UK architect Foster +…
News Performing arts facility opens at NY World Trade Centre site The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) has opened, the final public segment of the rebuilt World Trade Center site following the 9/11 attacks. The 138ft-tall, cube shaped PAC NYC…
News Skanska tops out SOM-designed $448m public health lab in New York Skanska topped out the structural steelwork for the new home of the famous New York City Public Health Laboratory last week on 20 September.