Category: Construction Design & Engineering

Brooklyn, NY The New York City College of Technology (City Tech) celebrated the official opening of its new 365,000 s/f academic complex, following a $410 million project drawing together the latest educational technology with the downtown area’s renaissance.

Brooklyn, NY Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group has unveiled two new towers at Greenpoint Landing designed by OMA New York. The two towers, in conjunction with a lower seven-story building, will bring 745 units of housing—30% of which will be affordable

Over the past year and half there has been a considerable amount of focus on a proposed bill set to cap carbon emissions in NYC buildings. Originally presented as New York City Local Law Introduction No. 1729 (Int. No. 1729), it focused only on fossil fuels consumed at the building site.

New York, NY According to LERA Consulting Structural Engineers, Richard Garlock has been named a partner of the firm. With the firm since 1994, he currently leads many of LERA’s residential, mixed-use and office developments in the northeast and internationally

Rochester, NY Christa Construction has promoted the three following employees: Gail Morelle was appointed as a VP, business development.

New York, NY Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects (MBB) has promoted two key team members. According to firm leaders, these professionals embody MBB’s longstanding reputation for design solutions, technical knowledge, and a humanistic, user-centered approach to design.

Queens, NY Crystal Window & Door Systems is nearing completion of one of the largest window replacement projects in NYC.  Crystal has supplied 14,000 energy-efficient replacement windows for the Windsor Park Co-Op complex.

White Plains, NY Cauldwell Wingate has completed an office renovation at the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. building at One North Lexington Ave. The construction fit-out included three full floors amounting to 100,000 s/f.

Manhattan, NY  JRM Construction Management has completed the interior fit out for GroupM’s North American Headquarters at 3 World Trade Center, 175 Greenwich St., one of the largest leased co-location spaces in NYC. GroupM is an advertising media company by billings with 32,000 employees and 400 offices in more than 100 countries. 

New York, NY Yoel Borgenicht is the founder and president of King Rose Construction, a general contractor that specializes in commercial projects in the New York City market. The company is quickly gaining traction as one of our region’s premier firms. The New York Real Estate Journal sat down with Borgenicht to find out what motivates him to work in this opportunity-filled, high-risk construction industry:

Johnson City, NY The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM)has completed the programming, planning, and design for the new $60 million, 105,000-s/f School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY), located on the 11-acre Health Science Campus being developed less than three miles from the main campus. In addition to full architectural services, SLAM provided interior design, structural engineering and landscape architecture services.

Syosset, NY Total Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has opened the group’s new $3 million facility.   Medical appointments and a walk-in clinic that provides orthopedic-specific urgent care, Total Ortho Express,  are among the services available at the 115 Eileen Way location, a 20,000 s/f, detached one-story building. Victor Famulari Architect, P.C. was the architect for the interior of the facility.  The Capo Group (owner) is a full-service real estate development firm.  They were the prime contractor on the project.