This story originally appeared in ENR New York. Two trade groups and the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) are scheduled to give oral arguments on December 17 before a state judge in a case involving the prefabricated building units of Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards' B2 Bklyn tower, designed by SHoP. A factory at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is making the 350 units for developer Forest City Ratner Companies' $117-million, 22-story modular high-rise, the first residential tower at the Atlantic Yards site. But the trade groups—Mechanical Contractors Association of New York (MCANY) and the Plumbing Foundation City of New York

This story first appeared in ENR New York. Health care activity in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut is expected to rise as the market comes to grips with some of the uncertainties that slowed it down last year, including health care and insurance reforms. But hospitals, contractors, and other stakeholders are now grappling with a new problem in the wake of Superstorm Sandy's devastating blow to many of their facilities—how to prevent that from happening again. While 2011's Hurricane Irene made these stakeholders rethink safety, security, and emergency preparedness, Sandy has brought them back to the table to come

This story originally appear on ENR.com. Industry merger and acquisition activity grew 14% to about 200 deals nationwide last year but was relatively flat in the tristate region, says Mick Morrissey, managing principal at A/E/C management consulting firm Morrissey Goodale, in Newton, Massachusetts. Even so, many buyers continued to view the tristate region as a good place to spend their merger and acquisition dollars. "New York tends to be a harder place [for an outside firm] to get into. That said, it tends to be one of the most popular states" for deals, Morrissey says. "That's because it is a

This story originally appeared on ENR.com Photo courtesy Wikipedia The Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island. The Statue of Liberty reopens today, Oct. 28, with a celebration of its 126th birthday and the substantial completion of a one-year, $30-million upgrade to meet current life-safety codes. The majority of the renovation work was in the 145-ft granite pedestal that Lady Liberty stands on, with further work on the rails and protective glass on the stairs leading up to the crown. The project team is putting the finishing touches on a few elements including commissioning of the new HVAC system and on

This story originally appeared on ENR.com An aerial view of the planned Roosevelt Island campus. New York City began the seven-month uniform land use review procedure (ULURP) today, Oct. 15, for the 12-acre Cornell NYC Tech Center planned for Roosevelt Island. The action initiates the public review phase of Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's updated master plan of their 30-year, $2-billion-plus planned applied sciences project. Cornell has also released new renderings of the 12-acre tech campus that, when completed in 2037, will include up to 2.1 million sq ft of development. First-phase plans call for breaking ground in

Photo © Spencer T Tucker During a press event Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg and representatives of Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group announced that Coach Inc. had signed a deal to anchor the Hudson Yards development. Image courtesy Related Companies View of the South Tower from the High Line. KPF designed the 1.7-million-sq-ft, 51-story tower. Related Links: The City Reimagined: Hudson Yards Luxury retailer Coach, Inc. will become the first tenant in a tower that developers Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group, both of New York, plan to build on Midtown Manhattan’s West Side. Coach will occupy more than 600,000 square

AIA President Clark Manus describes the initiative as “Match.com for projects.” Photo courtesy AIA Following in the well-trod path of Match.com and other online dating services, the American Institute of Architects thinks it has found a way to attract investors to the thousands of industry projects put on hold—send the potential suitors to cyberspace for a database of the good-lookers. That is, the AIA is compiling a list of stalled projects nationwide that “make sense” to move forward but for lack of financing, and a list of the types of projects that financial entities specialize in. Related Links: Special Coverage: