Category: Construction Design & Engineering

Manhattan, NY A façade preservation and restoration project at 54 Bond St. received the Society of American Registered Architects’ National Award of Excellence. The international project team for this complex exterior restoration included architect CTA Architects P.C.

Manhattan, NY CetraRuddy has been selected as architect for a new affordable housing complex located at 806 Ninth Ave. in Hell’s Kitchen. The vacant city-owned site will be transformed into a mixed-used building with 100 units of affordable and supportive housing

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: