Moving Forward With Caution
Design firms say a gradual recovery is afoot for the private sector but the public side slows.

High Line Extension Hangs Tight
Surrounded by other construction projects, the last leg of NYC's High Line park requires frequent meetings with neighboring management teams.

Seeking to Capture the Heart of New York
The Owner of the Year winner, the Related-Oxford joint venture team, broke ground in December on the first of many projects to come at Hudson Yards on Manhattan's West Side.

West Point Science Hall Rolling Along
The military academy makes extensive interior renovations to bring €˜cramped, old€™ science space into the 21st Century.

Recovery Work Takes Center Stage
Superstorm Sandy put a lot of work on the street, but the industryâ??s long-term forecast is still in need of rescue.

Region's Best Project: Making Short Work of Long Spans
MassDOT bypasses road rage by getting on the social media highway with 14 bridges in 10 weekends.

Putting Education on a Firm Foundation
Crews dig deep to bring a waterfront high school into the 21st Century.

Bright Spots in an Otherwise Hazy Outlook
Mixed signals prolong economic uncertainty for tristate's specialty contractors.

Jingoli-DCO Energy Named 2012 Contractor of the Year: An Energetic Partnership Generates Growth
Starting up an energy-focused contracting firm in the early days of energy-sector deregulation in New Jersey seemed like a good idea at the time to Frank DiCola, Michael Jingoli and Joseph R. Jingoli Jr.

Powering Up Construction Waste
Most of New England's construction and demolition (C&D) waste is landfill-bound, and that's a problem for states as well as contractors.

CHA Drives Growth
High-profile projects across the New York region are seldom the work of just one or two design firms anymore. Instead, complicated projects that require deep proficiency in areas such as sustainability, computer-aided design and cross-discipline coordination are calling for bigger teams of specialty firms.

Tackling Big Things in Small Places
Manhattan contractors are used to building in small spaces. But when an owner-developer joint venture team offered to custom-design a 24-story tower for Pace University housing at 180 Broadway, the idea of "small spaces" took on a new dimension.

PSEG Keeps the Lights On for Small Firms
At its core, Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is like any other energy services company that aims to meet or exceed shareholder value and keep power flowing through sweltering summers and record-breaking storms.

Brooklyn Basketball Arena Nears Final Buzzer
Adistinctive feature of the new $825-million Barclays Center in Brooklyn is its "pre-weathered" facade of rusted steel panels that give the 675,000-sq-ft arena a been-there-all-along air.

NYC Schools Put Private Partnerships to Work
Next September, students at P.S. 59 and the High School of Art and Design on Manhattan's East Side will start classes on their old block but in new digs: a 12-story building that they will share with each other and a Whole Foods market on a mixed-use site.

2011 Best Projects Take Center Stage
Battling to keep business afloat in a tough economic climate is hard enough, but the 98 contenders in this year's Best Projects competition had to go further than just completing the job.

Reviving the Dead Zones
Contractors, developers and designers face a new sort of project backlog across the New York region today: many hundreds of stalled sites that loom as a steep challenge to the industry.

4 WTC: Out of the Spotlight
4 World Trade Center, the shortest of the four towers on the 16-acre WTC site, stands tall in its own right.

Rx for Hospital Design: Models & Meetings
When Turner Construction Co. introduced business information modeling (BIM) for building the new University Medical Center of Princeton, it immediately inspired a medical metaphor for the owner: brain imaging technology used by neurosurgeons.

New Jersey Officials Redraw the Road Map
New Jersey charts a new course for its five-year transportation capital plan after scrapping a $9-billion Hudson River tunnel to New York

Top Design Firms
Design firms throughout the region continue to suffer the pains of the recession, but some see signs of relief on the horizon. As with 2009, designers saw a dribble of work flow from private-sector clients last year as financing remains elusive.

Enter the Dragon
So when a New York-based team was assembled to deliver a new 450-room hotel and convention facility in the heart of Hanoi?s new central business district, a skyscraper seemed the obvious choice to reflect the rise of Vietnam?s bustling economy.

Manhattan Miracle
Years after planners planted the seeds of redevelopment at the World Trade Center complex, the 16-acre site in lower Manhattan shows significant signs of life.

Renovation Salvation
With tight budgets and financing issues putting the squeeze on base-building projects during the recession, lingering opportunities in the renovation market have proved to be a lifeline for some contractors trying to keep crews working.

Construction Outlook 2011
While some signs suggest the economic downturn has reached bottom, construction activity in the New York region still languishes with little optimism for a quick rebound.

Best Of 2010
One thing we’ve come to expect every year when it comes to our annual, year-end “Best Of” competition is that it’s nearly impossible to make any assumptions or predictions as to the outcome.

Easier Being Green
Years after ?green? became a buzz word for engineers, architects and builders, we?re still seeing advancements and breakthroughs on projects and programs across the region. It?s hard to find an affordable housing project that has not ?gone green?.

Top Design Firms 2010
By Alex Padalka
The tri-state area?s designers were on the front lines of a construction market choking on its excesses in 2008.

Downtown Moves: Construction At The World Trade Center
By Alex Padalka
The headlines about the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site usually include “arbitration,” “notice of dispute,” and “finally started” — with only the occasional mention of any good news.

"Sleeping Giant":
Skanska USA Named ENR New York's Contractor of the Year
By Jack Buehrer
It might be hard to believe, but there was a time when Skanska considered itself something of an unknown in the U.S. construction market.

Top Projects 2009
Looking back on 2009 there were a few reasons to smile.
Despite a year that saw the industry’s new job rate fall to the lowest it has been in a decade, 2009 wasn’t all bad.

Owner of the Year
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection is finding itself in a unique situation these days.

Fit for Survival: Contractors Across Region Make Adjustments to Weather Down Market
The storm clouds over the New York region?s construction industry had formed in late fall 2009 as project backlogs emptied and new jobs were few on the horizon.

Greening an Icon: The Empire State Building
When the owners of the Empire State Building in 2007 decided to move forward with a new capital improvement plan, they were looking for standard improvements to get the building to Class A commercial status.

2010 Local Industry Forecast
Experts fear the worst for 2010 as public jobs continue but private work is vanishing.

Best Of 2009: Yankee Stadium Voted Region?s Best
No matter how you look at it, 2009 was a different kind of year.

New Life: An Oral History of the Industry?s Own Recovery Act
On May 29, using words like ?historic? and ?groundbreaking,? New York City?s Construction Industry Partnership between union labor and contractors announced a project labor agreement both sides said would breathe life into an industry that had begun to circle the drain.

Redrawn Landscape: Amid the Rubble, Design Firms Search for Signs of Recovery
The captains of architecture and engineering practices across the New York region were already enduring hard times in the past year, and didn't need reminders of how bad things were.

World View: New York Firms Take Long, Careful Steps to go Global
Architects, engineers, and contractors are stretching their horizons to international opportunities. And most don't approach it simply as a temporary market opportunity.

Staying Afloat
Many specialty contractors face tough decisions in difficult economic times.

Contractor of the Year
Tishman Builds Winning Recipe from Forward Thinking, Family Values.

A Look at the Region's Top 21 Big-Ticket Construction Starts from Last Year
2008 was a strange year for the construction industry in the tri-state region.

Owner of the Year
It's going to be tough for the New York City School Construction Authority to top its 20th year of existence.

Tri-State Contractors Weigh Options for Future
In the deepening recession there is a mix of both optimism and wariness among contractors in the Tri-State region this spring.

Plant in the Park
The borough's biggest construction project is not that baseball stadium on River Avenue you've been hearing so much about.

Shifting Gears
Although the amount of private renovation work in the U.S. has declined with the economy, some projects, including government jobs, keep moving forward.

Construction Outlook: How Low Can it Go?
Given the week economy, there's little doubt that construction activity is set to take a dive in 2009. It's just a matter of how fast and how far.