SPECIAL REPORT! --UPDATE (9/13/01 -- 4 p.m.)
Industry Mobilization Continues; DDC Selects 3 Cleanup Teams

The New York City Department of Design and Construction has hired three cleanup teams: AMEC and Bovis Lend Lease LMB, Turner Construction and Plaza Construction and Tully and DeFoe Construction. Equipment, supplies and volunteers are not needed at this time.

AMEC Vice Chairman John Cavanagh, who is also chairman of the Contractors Association of Greater New York (CAGNY) and president of the Building Trades Employers’ Association (BTEA), said CAGNY is now coordinating the efforts of the local construction industry and that no more supplies, such as goggles, respirators, work gloves and hard hats are needed at the present time. “If we need more, we know where to get them,” he said.

A meeting is presently underway with the three main teams involved, according to a Bovis spokesperson. The location of the meeting was not disclosed, but the spokesperson said the efforts of the three teams will be “more organized” as a result of the meeting.

Executives of the other firms making up the DDC-hired teams could not be reached for comment because of ongoing difficulties with busy telephone lines and switching problems.