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I chose this article because it is about habitat for humanity. They do construction to give back to the community and those less fortunate. In high school I was part of the club and in the future hope to be able to rejoin and be able to manage one of these projects

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Throughout the country, as troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan, Habitat is focusing on ways to support their transition, especially given the economic climate. According to the group: "More than 72,000 veterans spend at least half of their monthly income on rent. And as a result, home equity is out of their reach."

In his New Rochelle office, Jim Killoran, the executive director of the Westchester affiliate, has earmarked six foreclosed homes in a downtrodden section of Yonkers to be among the first of about 20 to be renovated and sold to veterans like the Roushions.

The Westchester division, which operates on a $1.7 million annual budget for all of its projects, has already bought several of the homes for about $50,000 each from lending institutions, using donations from corporations like Cisco Systems, a global networking company in San Jose, Calif.; the Lanza Family Foundation in Harrison; and Silverstein Properties, the real estate firm rebuilding the World Trade Center.

Habitat will provide qualified veterans the mortgages - an estimated $175,000 each - interest-free with no down payment required. Under the terms of the sale, the house cannot be resold for 10 years.

Among the Yonkers properties that will probably be redone for returning veterans: a 2,400-square-foot house being converted to a two-family, and an abandoned three-bedroom colonial (vandals stole its copper plumbing months ago), which Mr. and Mrs. Roushion hope to move into within a year. They are to work alongside volunteers to rebuild the place, and to clear the brush obscuring views of the Hudson River and the New York City skyline. Mr. Killoran describes the houses as "diamonds in the rough."

They are on the west side of Yonkers in a formerly industrial area of mostly run-down buildings, many of them abandoned and pockmarked by broken windows. There is scattered evidence of the new energy that Habitat for Humanity is infusing into the neighborhood: freshly painted buildings, tidy community gardens and, at street corners, wooden planters filled with spring flowers.

"You can't just renovate a few houses and leave it at that," Mr. Killoran said. "You have to bring up the whole neighborhood along with them." Cisco has worked with more than 150 Habitat for Humanity groups worldwide and contributed more than $9 million to the organization's various projects since 1998, said William DeKnatel, a Cisco client service director. In addition to money for construction, the company offers grants to provide Internet wiring for low-income families "who often have less access to information on the Web," said Mr. DeKnatel, who works in Cisco's Manhattan offices and lives in Westchester.

He met Mr. Killoran several years ago at a Sunday service at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in New Rochelle and has since recruited church congregants, members of his Boy Scout troop and clients to volunteer for Habitat in Westchester.

At Silverstein Properties, Marty Burger, who shares the chief executive post with Larry Silverstein, says he met Mr. Killoran three years ago when one of Mr. Burger's sons expressed an interest in volunteering for the group.

Now Mr. Burger's synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester in Rye, has become involved, its members installing kitchen cabinets, replacing door frames, windows and siding, and otherwise remaking substandard housing.

Also, subcontractors at the World Trade Center site, Mr. Burger said, have trucked in gravel, poured foundations and installed electrical circuitry for Habitat projects.

Mr. Burger described the burly 50-year-old Mr. Killoran, who has a master's degree in divinity and says he believes in the "theology of the hammer," as "a soldier who's out there every week gathering troops from temples, mosques, churches and colleges."

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Westchester/In the Region - Welcome-Home Houses

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Throughout the country, as troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan, Habitat is focusing on ways to support their transition, especially given the economic climate. According to the group: "More than 72,000 veterans spend at least half of their monthly income on rent. And as a result, home equity is out of their reach."

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I chose this article because it shows that being a construction manager is a great career. Another reason why I chose construction management is because it's unemployment rate is only about 4%.

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I picked this article because im from yonkers and seeing the growth in this city is amazing. Theyre are so many projects currently  being held. I hope to one day be able to give back to my city.

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Maybe someone broke a big mirror in Yonkers in 2007. The city certainly has had its share of hard luck in the seven years since then. Billions of dollars of downtown development projects died as a result of the worldwide economic meltdown. Various state and federal budget crises slashed the economic aid the city's schools depend on to operate. Even the weather was bad-Superstorm Sandy flooded great swaths of the city's waterfront, leaving behind millions of dollars in damage and permanently closing at least one good-sized employer.

There are indications, though, that those seven years of bad luck may be coming to an end for Westchester's largest city. One of the biggest signs of changing fortunes? The real estate developers scratching through the rubble of abandoned projects in the downtown waterfront area and staking out millions of dollars of high-rise, low-rise, and even underground construction projects designed to rejuvenate the city's economic base (and fatten a few bank accounts).

Yes, much has changed in Yonkers during the last seven years. Or has it?

Life-long Yonkers resident Craig Burrows, a 53-year-old sales representative, echoes the concerns of many when he says, "Every time I hear about redevelopment, what I think about is what's gone on in the past, whose pockets got lined, and how there was a lot of talk but no action." Downtown redevelopment, he adds, doesn't mean much without addressing some of the city's other less-than-appealing areas. "You can redevelop that side of Yonkers all you want," Burrows says, "but you still have to drive through some pretty ugly stuff to get to it. Since Yonkers Avenue is the main way to get downtown, they've got to start cleaning it up from the Saw Mill to City Hall. It's not exactly inviting."

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano would disagree with the sentiment, if not the specifics of Burrows' statements. "There are good things happening in this city," Spano says. "With the turnaround in the economy, Yonkers is open for business. New shops open every day, the real estate market is up, our sales-tax revenues are up."

Try, Try, and Try Again

Regardless of your beliefs, Yonkers deserves some credit for trying, even if much of the investment it made over the last 15 years has been with other people's money (federal and state, mostly). It retooled the Otis Elevator Company building into the fabulous $53-million Riverfront Library. That spawned i.Park Hudson, the 24-acre technology and office campus next door, which houses eight buildings, offers 800,000 square feet of space, and is home to a wide range of businesses including biotechnology, education, industrial, and more. (The campus is whimsically billed as "Not Your Grandfather's Office Park!" which is, in fact, an understatement.) In the meantime, Metro-North pumped $43 million into the city's Beaux-Arts train station, tracks, bridges, and various amenities. Suddenly, everybody wanted to build downtown.

i.Park Hudson, a 24-acre downtown office campus, is home to firms like Kawasaki, ContraFect, and Mindspark.

In 2006, Yonkers bought an eight-page section in the New York Times to trumpet billions of dollars of development based on expected 10-percent population growth, the addition of 10,000 permanent jobs in the ensuing 10 years, and an economic growth rate projected to be twice the national average. Developers were granted property-tax abatements, mortgage and sales tax relief, grants for brownfield mitigation, and anything else the city fathers could think of to induce them to build something-anything-in downtown Yonkers. The timing couldn't have been worse, coming just as $4.1 trillion in debt held by the five largest investment banks in the US turned to something that could have poured out of the sewage treatment plant just south of downtown Yonkers, and plunged the world's economy into near-depression.

All that was yet to come when I wrote about the city's (original) renaissance in the June 2007 issue of Westchester Magazine. I built the story around an appropriate symbol of the city's rebirth: the opening of Peter Kelly's X2O Xaviars on the Hudson atop the municipal pier. Westchester's own celebrity restaurateur, winner on TV's , owner of multiple award-winning Hudson Valley restaurants (not to mention a producer of Napa Valley wines), had returned to the city of his birth to invest $2 million in a dazzling eatery. His story seemed to epitomize the pending rejuvenation of the tired old industrial waterfront.

Today, Kelly's situation also reflects the current state of the city's economy. The restaurant has been successful, although not to the grand scale once envisioned, since almost all of the other projects that were to bring thousands of new prospective diners downtown collapsed before they began. "Our reputation was big enough to bring people here as a destination," Kelly says. "But even with that, it's been flat." Kelly is also embroiled in a messy lawsuit with the Yonkers Pier Development over some $462,000 of unpaid fees and utility bills he says he withheld in protest of the city's failure to deliver on promises of more than $1.5 million in repairs and incomplete work, in addition to energy issues and a landlord dispute dating back to 2007. But Kelly expects the dispute to be settled, and he remains cautiously optimistic about the future of Yonkers. "I'm still a believer," he says. "When I stand in my restaurant and see where we are, 25 minutes from Manhattan, the center of the universe, I'm not just drinking the Kool-Aid."

Nor are today's developers, according to former Yonkers Industrial Development Corporation (IDA) CEO Melvina Carter, who left office this year. "I've seen development surge and then pull back because of the economy," she says. "In 2012, though, when Mike Spano took office, developers saw a new opportunity. They decided it was time to get the ball rolling."

A Plethora of Projects

Today, many downtown development projects are in flux, but several look like they'll actually sprout cranes and girders in the near future. After many years of starts and stops, Yonkers completed the first phase of the $48-million day-lighting of the Saw Mill River, turning a two-block eyesore parking lot into a park-lined riverfront in the heart of downtown. The city has started the second phase of the plan, turning a neglected downtown lot into a pedestrian mall named Mill Street Courtyard and opening a 75- by 30-foot section of the river's underground flume. That, in turn, will signal the construction of phase one of The Rising, a $22-million plan masterminded by New York City-based developer Nick Sprayregen to turn five properties on Main Street into lofts, retail, and restaurant space.

The $48-million Saw Mill River day-lighting project turned a two-block eyesore into this riverfront attraction.

"The daylighting of the river, coupled with the re-development of our properties there," will drive additional development downtown, bringing new visitors to the retailers, restaurants, and the park, Sprayregen says. The Yonkers IDA approved the financial incentives for this phase in late 2013, but Sprayregen says it's just the beginning of his plans for the area around Larkin Plaza. The second phase of his plan is now moving toward the financing stage.

"The crown jewel of our properties will be a 24-story tower combined with the low-rise overlooking the Saw Mill River park," Sprayregen says. "It will be one block from the Metro-North station and overlooking this beautiful amenity. Between the library, the day-lighting of the river, and the Metro-North station, the site just begs for a good development." The Yonkers planning board approved the $150-million tower plans in the spring of 2013. "Now it's a matter of moving forward with the financing of the project," Sprayregen notes.

Also moving off the drawing board is Teutonia Hall on Buena Vista Avenue downtown. It will become the site of a 24-story residential tower with 361 units. The IDA has authorized the first phase, approximately $8 million in demolition and site remediation, and authorized a mortgage-tax abatement and sales-tax exemption on construction materials. Still in the financing phase, the Yonkers-based developer Metro Partners hopes to begin actual construction in the first quarter of 2015.

The biggest success on the Yonkers waterfront has been the developments from Collins Enterprises LLC, which opened Hudson Park South with 266 one- and two-bedroom apartments in 2003, then survived the economic tsunami to complete Hudson Park North, two towers with 294 apartments, in 2008. The Stamford, Connecticut-based company is trying to secure funding to build a 23-story residential complex on a lot just north of Hudson Park North at the corner of Wells Avenue and Penne Lane, which will complete its downtown Yonkers hat trick.

Recently finished is the Main Street Library, a project completed by New Jersey firm Fidelco Realty Group. The retail portion of the property that replaced the old Yonkers Library has been leased, and 23 units of live-work loft rentals have a waiting list, according to Fidelco Chairman Marc Berson.

Fidelco wants to pursue its plans for several other sites in the city, but its prospects are clouded by its status as the only remaining partner of SFC, the city's erstwhile master developer that once was expected to lead $1.6 billion in projects from Nepperhan Avenue to Alexander Street. Among the current projects in Fidelco's sites are a $100-million low-rise residential rental development on the waterfront between the sculpture garden and the sugar plant, a plot identified as Palisades Point, or legally as parcels H and I. In addition, Fidelco owns the site just north of Altman Lighting on the waterfront-a residential site that is the next development for the company after the H and I project. "In the meantime, we're doing some planning work on the site. It will probably also be a rental development with 400 units or so," Berson says.

The infamous Chicken Island is where SFC's relationship with the city fell apart. That's the site of an underused municipal parking lot and some surrounding property that was to have been developed into River Park Center, 2 million square feet of retail, office, and entertainment space literally crowned by a ball park perched atop an 11-story building. None of that is going to happen, so the city has moved to open the area to offers from other developers. "That doesn't frustrate or upset us," Berson says. "We have a real partnership going and we want to cooperate with the city. I am not interested in banking land for the next 10 years, so if they want to go in a different direction, I'm sure we can work something out."

Ambitious Future Plans

Plans are in the works for a new 24-story residential tower overlooking Larkin Plaza and the Saw Mill River.

There is no shortage of waterfront projects that have been announced but are not quite ready for prime time. Chief among them is the long-abandoned Glenwood Power Plant, which is now under development as an events space and arts exhibit hall by Lela Goren. The founder and president of Goren Group bought out her erstwhile partner, Yonkers investor Ron Shemesh, not long after he closed his Excelsior Packaging Plant in the aftermath of Sandy (costing the city 112 jobs), and sold another site on the waterfront at 35 Water Grant Street that has gone undeveloped from owner to owner since it was abandoned by Sun Chemical Corp. decades ago. Goren expects the $70-million rehab project will be followed by a $60 million second phase that will add a boutique hotel, restaurants, marina, and other amenities to the power plant site, which has in recent years become known for its graffiti collection and rumored gang initiations.

Goren Group also purchased Alder Manor, a 72-room mansion on North Broadway, with plans to restore while partially demolishing co-located Bosch Hall, a former school building, and turning the remainder into a restaurant or event space.

The old Yonkers jail holds another piece of good news. Not long after taking office, Mayor Spano moved the prisoners and police operations from there to the Cacace Justice Center on South Broadway. That freed up the waterfront jail for development by art and photography dealer Daniel Wolf, who-along with his wife, award-winning architect and artist Maya Lin-will use it as a gallery, studio, and loft. Shortly after the $1-million sale was announced, Wolf applied for a $300,000 tax break from the city.

Downtown retail, dining, and entertainment enterprises seem to be lagging, but Yonkers Downtown/Waterfront BID Executive Director Daniel Lipka sees signs of change there, too. "Developers like Nick Sprayregen, Collins Enterprises, and Metro Partners have been moving forward to bring more residents and vitality to downtown," Lipka says. "Hopefully, that will spur new stores and properties."

In the non-scientific-sample department, four of the five new downtown businesses I interviewed in 2007 are now closed, and Lipka admits some problems remain. "A number of storefronts are vacant and the misconception is that they are failed businesses," he explains. "Actually, those are mostly developers waiting for the financing to build new things or refurbish what they have. In the meantime, we've just started a project to beautify those areas by putting art in the windows and painting the walls to give the positive feeling we want."

Lipka points to a growing calendar of promotional events around the newly day-lighted Saw Mill, the amphitheater by the Hudson Riverfront, and the library. He also cites Wine In Due Time, a new store by the waterfront, and Casa de Cafe, a new coffee shop, as examples of new businesses taking a strong community approach, by bringing people to events like open-mic nights and art shows featuring local talent. So is downtown Yonkers on the cusp of yet another renaissance? Architectural renderings are flying, press releases are streaming, ribbon-cuttings occur whenever two politicians and a photographer can be assembled in one place-the signs are there. On the other hand, while the housing bubble that burst in 2007 may belong in the history books, the stock market was flirting with bubble territory when we went to press this year. And Chicken Island? So far, it's still a parking lot.

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I chose this article because on the way from and to school I go across the old Tappan Zee Bridge. It amazing to see the progress its making even though it had a few major setbacks.

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21st-Century Span

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. - The building of the twin-span Tappan Zee Bridge, the first major new bridge in the New York area in half a century, has reached the halfway point.

Already, more than a mile of concrete road deck has been laid, stretching from the bridge's South Nyack end over the waters of the Hudson River. Thirty-five of the 43 pairs of piers that will hold up the 3.1-mile bridge are finished, with a framework of cornflower blue steel beams between many of them, so that more than half of the horizontal silhouette of the bridge is in place.

Almost the entire steel skeleton should be completed by October, said Neil Napolitano, who manages work on the long approaches from both the Rockland and Westchester County shores.

The toppling of a 256-foot crane on July 19 onto the roadway of the existing bridge, an accident that shut down traffic in both directions for five hours but remarkably caused no serious injuries, seems to have been a minor problem in the progress.

In late July, workers began laying the bridge's signature feature - the thick cables that will attach the main decks at midriver to eight 40-story towers and help firmly brace them like suspenders holding up a pair of trousers. The first of 192 cables, a 140-foot-long cord made up of strands of braided steel, was stretched from the eastern tower of the Rockland-bound span and a projecting section of road deck, locking into anchors built into the deck. By Aug. 1, four cables were strung, in whole or in part.

In all, the length of cable used will total roughly 14 miles. To passing travelers, the cables, sheathed in white plastic, might look like strings on a set of eight giant harps.

"A cable-stayed bridge is a perfect mix of form and function," said Sky Lee, the Oklahoma-born engineer supervising the construction of the main spans. "We are using cables to build the bridge, and ultimately it's what everyone sees: the icon for the bridge."

If everything goes according to plan, said Jamey Barbas, the engineer orchestrating the entire project for the New York State Thruway Authority, the first section should open to eight lanes of two-way traffic toward the end of next year. Demolition will then begin on the present Tappan Zee Bridge, which opened in December 1955, built cheaply during Korean War austerity for just $60 million ($531.5 million in today's dollars). Its replacement is expected to cost just under $4 billion.

Sometime in 2018, seven years after work began, the second section should be finished, carrying four lanes of traffic heading westbound toward Rockland on the northern stretch and four lanes heading east toward Westchester on the southern stretch. Bicyclists and pedestrians will have their own scenic lane, whose terminus, after some controversy, has been shifted from a residential neighborhood to a traffic circle in South Nyack.

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Sky Lee, the engineer supervising the construction of the main spans. A cable-stayed bridge, like the Tappan Zee, "is a perfect mix of form and function," he said. Credit Fred R. Conrad for The New York Times

The bridge is not progressing as fast as the first optimistic schedule had it (the Thruway Authority once said the first span would be ready early next year), but a key to the relatively timely progress has been the strategic decision to prefabricate pieces of the replacement bridge on land, saving months of perilous work above the river. The large steel girders - 30 miles long in total - and 6,000 concrete roadway panels are assembled 14 miles upriver at Tomkins Cove near Bear Mountain or at Port of Coeymans, 10 miles south of Albany. They are then shipped to the Tappan Zee site by barge, where cranes lift them up and, guided by workers, swing them slowly into place.

Much of the concrete needed for piers, foundations, platforms and towers has been poured from floating plants on the river, requiring far fewer trips by truck through residential neighborhoods - 30,000 fewer, Ms. Barbas said.

On a boat tour the other day, a reporter and photographer could see three barges lined up to deliver steel beams and other modular pieces to crane operators. A team of schedulers synchronize delivery of beams, concrete deck panels, nuts and bolts and other supplies as they are needed.

Mr. Lee, a civil engineer, said one challenge of the Tappan Zee's parallel main spans was that they were "so isolated on the river." Other bridges he has worked on, like the replacements of Gulf Coast bridges destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, had far more land access, while the central spans of the new Tappan Zee are in the middle of a three-mile-wide stretch of river. Work requires regular commutes by small boats from Tarrytown and deliveries by barge.

"We're in the middle of the Hudson River, so everything is multiplied by two," he said.

Because the work will take several years, his wife and high-school-aged sons moved with him to Westchester from the New Orleans area.

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Under the bridge. Right, the project's first stay cable is anchored to one of the bridge's concrete towers and to the sides of a section of structural steel. Credit Left: Fred R. Conrad for The New York Times; Right: New York State Thruway Authority

A classic suspension bridge like the George Washington has cables that are anchored to the shore. A cable-stayed bridge like the new Tappan Zee has its cables anchored to tall towers, which bear the load.

The construction of the four pairs of towers - massive wing-shaped concrete structures each 40 stories tall and leaning outward about 5 degrees - use an inventive engineering process that relies on what are called jump forms. The blue steel and wood forms - boxlike work rooms without a ceiling - allow carpenters and ironworkers to construct the successive concrete segments of each tower, one huge block of steel rebar encased in concrete piled atop another. Then after the concrete block is cured, or hardened, the forms can be elevated on vertical rails attached to the block, so the next block of concrete can be built atop the previous one within a safe enclosed space.

The size of each block varies from 12 to 18 feet tall, with those at the top narrower than those at the bottom; it takes 26 lifts of a jump form to stack all the blocks for a tower that tops off at 419 feet tall. Though the towers are only two-thirds complete, crossbeams have already been extended from one tower to its sidekick to hold up the decks of the main spans. The cables, once pulled taut, will strengthen the grip.

Seen from some angles, the towers look like four slender people doing an open-armed yoga exercise. Several holes in which the cables will be anchored are already visible. There will eventually be 12 holes each on flip sides of a tower, which means that 192 cables - some 11 inches in diameter, others two feet thick, with the longest segments reaching almost 800 feet - will be supporting the main deck.

Depending on where it is placed and the weight it must support, a cable can be made up of 30 or 60 or 80 strands of wire, each strand - three-fourths of an inch thick - itself made up of seven slim wires braided together. The cables are so heavy and stiff that they need to be threaded through the holes not by human hands but by a cranklike winch.

Alessandra Rosso of the Bronx, a field engineer on the project. Credit Fred R. Conrad for The New York Times

Supervising much of the work on the jump forms and cables are field engineers like Alessandra Rosso of the Bronx and John McCullough of Piermont, N.Y. Two or three times each day, they climb metal staircases to reach work areas in the towers that are 15 stories now and keep getting higher.

"If you're not in shape you get in shape pretty quickly," Ms. Rosso said.

Still, 90 percent of her job is coordinating the ordering and delivery of materials, finding ways to get tools to where they are needed, talking to crane operators who must be nearby to hoist the materials to where they are needed but who must not be left to idle long. "Crane time is like gold around here," she said.

At times the bridge has had two dozen cranes doing various jobs. The one that collapsed, which was using a vibrating hammer to force cylindrical support piles into the river bottom, was quickly replaced.

"It's not going to impact our work," Ms. Barbas said of the toppled crane.

This is Ms. Rosso's first bridge. She previously worked on the East Side Access project that will connect Long Island Rail Road trains to Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. So she has had to adjust to working at daunting heights in all kinds of weather.

"The first time it's definitely scary, but then it's just work," she said. "I think about the task, not the heights."

Mr. McCullough, who last worked on renovating the Pulaski Skyway in New Jersey, seems simply awed by the scale of the job.

"This is 400 times bigger, everything is much bigger," he said. "You have to have a Plan B if Plan A doesn't work and a Plan C if Plan B doesn't work."

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A18 of the New York edition with the headline: The New Tappan Zee Bridge Achieves a Milestone: It's Halfway Finished. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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Milestone for New Tappan Zee Bridge: It's Halfway Done

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21st-Century Span TARRYTOWN, N.Y. - The building of the twin-span Tappan Zee Bridge, the first major new bridge in the New York area in half a century, has reached the halfway point. Already, more than a mile of concrete road deck has been laid, stretching from the bridge's South Nyack end over the waters of the Hudson River.

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A construction worker was killed while aboard a crane that was being disassembled in the Longwood Medical Area yesterday, authorities said.

"They were disassembling a crane - he was on it," said Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald.

Boston police said about 1 p.m. they were notified of an "accident involving a crane" and that the worker was pronounced dead shortly after.

The man was not identified.

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A construction worker was killed while aboard a crane that was being disassembled in the Longwood Medical Area yesterday, authorities said."They were disassembling a crane - he was on it," said Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald.Boston police said about 1 p.m.

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I chose this article because It shows that the construction industry is still growing. One of the main reasons I picked this major is because  it is on a steady increase.

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I picked this articles because it shows that as the world is changing so is the industry. There is a constant varsity of new forms of construction  be brought about. It is amazing to see constructions managers be innovative about how their projects are constructed.

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As the economy improves, often the construction business does as well-but that industry is still looking for sound strategies, not just structures. After the housing dip of a few years ago, value is still on people's minds as there isn't a guarantee that another downturn couldn't be around the corner.

Mike Miller, the Mid-Atlantic Division leader for Southland Industries, Dulles, VA, a mechanical engineering building firm, and Jim Snyder, director of operations for construction company Warrior Group, Columbus, OH, give us insights into the trends to look for this year.

1) Single-Design Model

Miller points out that traditionally, engineering documents were created then given to the contractor to re-draw with different information. Now, to save time and money, there's a shift to have it all in-house from engineering to coordination, creating a one-stop shop. Through the proper coordination, models can and should, says Miller, go through engineering right into construction. "Thirty month projects can get turned into 24-month projects," he adds.

2) Materials

Miller, who has a degree in architectural engineering, says materials such as adapted sheet metal are popular as a guaranteed pressure class for high quality, but it's how materials are being used that makes the difference. Going to prefabrication off-site for construction fits right into the ongoing theme of improving schedules. "Instead of joining one piece of duct work you can join 20 feet of duct together," Miller says. "It's about moving more work from the field into the shop."

3) Energy Efficiency

Energy consumption is always on the mind in construction, says Miller. He notes systems that recover energy through heat wheels and occupancy sensors are becoming vital. An example of the latter are the countless interior conference rooms that can be left empty for weeks. By recognizing carbon dioxide in the room, a sensor changes the ventilation and, therefore, the energy needed.

4) Permanent Modular Construction

Snyder offers that permanent modular construction will be a huge trend in the coming years, saying the construction can easily last more than 50 years. "It looks exactly like commercial construction and can be done using many of the same things: metal studs, concrete, or even wood." Snyder says modular construction fits particularly well when you're in a time crunch, from fast food restaurants that need to go up quickly to army barracks for military deployment. "It also allows you to have an easier time doing the building as you go," he says. "Instead of building 100,000 square feet, you can do 25,000 and then later, add on." Snyder, who has a degree in construction science, sees it also becoming a part of high-rise construction and being particularly popular for how it fits in with LEED requirements. The key, he says, is changing people's minds about what they envision. "They see it as boxes," he says, "but it can be so many things that you want it to be."

5) Possibly...You

According to Miller, well-rounded mechanical engineers who can go beyond calculations to fitting into these coordinated engineering design models will render themselves invaluable. The only question is: Are you flexible enough for the challenge?

Eric Butterman is an independent writer.

Well-rounded mechanical engineers who can go beyond calculations to fitting into these coordinated engineering design models will render themselves invaluable.
Nikhil A. Koratkar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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5 New Trends in Construction and Building

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I chose this article because over the summer I worked for this company. This project stretch's over nine miles and has to be done within 3 years. The pressure is on for these construction managers. It is really cool to see this project happening.

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Construction to widen and resurface lanes and redesign exit patterns along a 1-mile stretch of Interstate 695 in Baltimore County began this week and is expected to continue through the summer of 2017, according to the State Highway Administration.

The $34.4 million project, part of a slate of recent highway investments paid for under the state's Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act, will affect the inner and outer loops of the highway between Harford Road and Perring Parkway. The stretch of highway cuts through Parkville and Carney in the county, northeast of Baltimore and east of Towson.

Temporary lane and ramp closures will occur in the area throughout the project's duration, particularly during off-peak hours. Those were described as weekdays between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and weeknights between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., the SHA said.

About 160,825 vehicles use the section of highway each day, the SHA said, and that number is expected to rise to more than 181,000 by 2030.

The work will increase safety by creating new auxiliary lanes for drivers to enter and exit the highway in designated areas, the SHA said.

It will also get rid of the cloverleaf exit pattern from eastbound I-695 onto southbound Harford Road; replace the existing Old Harford Road bridge over I-695; improve medians and traffic signals on Harford Road; introduce new water management systems and lighting; and provide for reforestation in the area.

The first phase of the project will focus on widening eastbound and westbound I-695 and replacing the the Old Harford Road bridge. The existing bridge will remain open as the new one is constructed.

The contractor is the Six-M Company, of Delta, Pa.

Work also is expected to begin next week on a $56.7 million project, also paid for under the new transportation act, to replace two bridges carrying I-695 over Benson Avenue and over Leeds Avenue, U.S. 1 and Amtrak lines in the Arbutus area.

The work will improve safety and reduce congestion and also include the construction of a new ramp from U.S. 1 to the inner loop of I-695, the SHA said.

The SHA expects the work, which coincides with new safety measures being introduced on both Leeds and Benson avenues, to last through the middle of 2017.
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Three-year construction project begins on I-695 in Balto. Co.

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Construction to widen and resurface lanes and redesign exit patterns along a 1-mile stretch of Interstate 695 in Baltimore County began this week and is expected to continue through the summer of 2017, according to the State Highway Administration.

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I picked this article because if feel that  that sustainable building is an important way of construction that will help  save the environment. Being in construction management will give me the opportunity to be apart of projects like this.

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Defining sustainable construction "Sustainability" is one of the world's most talked about but least understood words. Its meaning is often clouded by differing interpretations and by a tendency for the subject to be treated superficially.

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I picked this article because I learned about how much money really goes into some projects. Also the bigger the project the more money you will possibly be making.

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5 Biggest Construction Projects in U.S. History
The United States is the second largest construction market in the world. Many of the construction projects in U.S. history have completely reshaped how we live, get resources, and travel. Below, you'll find a list of the five biggest construction projects in U.S. history.

New York City Water Tunnel #3

This is part of the water supply system for New York. It brings drinking water to more than 8 million residents of New York City and another 1 million upstate users.

The third water tunnel project began in 1970 and is expected to be completed in the 2020s -- 50 years later. Water tunnel No. 3 will be more than 60 miles long, at a cost of over $6 million. It sits 500 feet below the surface and is 24 feet wide. Since the project began, 24 people have died, including a 12-year-old boy who died while he was exploring uncapped water pipes.

The Empire State Building

The framework for the Empire State Building started rising at a rate of 4.5 stories each week, beginning in 1930. The building was completed just 430 days later. It stands 102 stories or 1454 feet tall. More than 3.6 million people visit the building each year, which is the 9 th tallest building in the world. It even has its own zip code.

In 1945, a B-25 Bomber crashed into the 79 th floor of the building while in heavy fog. Fourteen people died, but the building was open for business on Monday.

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is one of the largest pipeline systems in the world. It travels 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska. Construction began in 1974 after the 1973 oil crisis. There were huge difficulties to overcome during construction, including the extreme cold, the isolated terrain, and the permafrost. In 1977, the pipeline carried its first barrel of oil. As of 2010, nearly 16 billion barrels of oil had flowed through the pipeline.

According to Terrence Cole, an Alaskan historian, "The wealth generated by Prudhoe Bay and the other fields on the North Slope since 1977 is worth more than all the fish ever caught, all the furs ever trapped, all the trees chopped down; throw in all the copper, whalebone, natural gas, tin, silver, platinum, and anything else ever extracted from Alaska too."

Hoover Dam

The Colorado River was controlled for the first time in history because of Hoover Dam. Lake Mead was also created, which holds almost 29 million acre feet of water. While there are 56 dams along the Colorado River and its tributaries, Hoover Dam was the largest of its time at 725.4 feet high and 1,244 feet long. Built during the Depression, thousands of men took less than five years to complete it, starting in 1933. The highest paid workers made $1.25 an hour.

There is enough concrete in the dam for a 16-feet wide, 8 inches thick road, running from New York City to San Francisco. If the heat created by the curing concrete could be concentrated in a baking oven, it could bake 500,000 loaves of bread each day for three years.

The Panama Canal

As one of the most difficult engineering projects of the 20 th century, the 48-mile long Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. An American-led company took over the project from the French in 1901, finding ways to defeat disease-causing mosquitoes and landslides. More than 40,000 workers from almost 50 countries were working at any one time.

The amount of rubble and earth removed in the building of the Panama Canal could bury the island of Manhattan to 12 feet. The canal opened in 1914 and Panama has had control of it since 1999. An incredible 13,000 ships take the 8-10 hours voyage through the canal each day.

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5 Biggest Construction Projects in U.S. History

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5 Biggest Construction Projects in U.S. History The United States is the second largest construction market in the world. Many of the construction projects in U.S. history have completely reshaped how we live, get resources, and travel. Below, you'll find a list of the five biggest construction projects in U.S.

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I chose this video because I find it inspirational. It one of those videos that is very uplifting and encourages me to want to be successful and that is why I picked construction management.

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I picked this video because it shows how  PPE is important. I feel that make sure everyone is safe can save someone's life.

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The consideration of personal protective equipment (PPE) begins with a hazard assessment long before you approach the job task. Once the hazards and risks have been determined, your supervisor will implement the necessary hazard controls to eliminate or reduce the risk of injury to the workers involved in the job task.

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I picked this video because it shows one of many new technologies used in construction. The ability to make a 3-D schedule now is great.

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BIM 4D Scheduling - Building Information Modeling - Construction Sequencing - ENGworks

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4D adds the time factor of the construction schedule to the 3D model. ENGworks links each activity of a Gantt chart to the BIM. These animated models represent the planned construction sequence set against time.

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I picked this project because this is some more amazing man made projects that took time to be built but came out phenomenal.

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10 Of The Largest and Most Impressive Man Made Structures

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Today we'll be going through 10 of the Largest and Most Impressive man made structures on Planet Earth. Of course there are many incredible structures in this world but these are 10 that stood out to me. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my other Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/thegamersjoint I Live Stream here: http://www.twitch.tv/thegamersjoint

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I picked this video because these are some amazing projects that fascinate me and make me feel like I made the right choice in picking construction management.

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Earth of Skyscrapers , Buildings & Towers

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Top 10 Tallest Building In the World 2016

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Top 10 Tallest Building In The World 2016 Link Youtube : https://youtu.be/I6QOXOGN8I4 List of tallest buildings in the world 2016 ( Skyscraper City) 1. Burj Khalifa - Dubai (UAE) - Height : 828 m floor : 163 - built : 2010 2. Shanghai Tower in Shanghai (China) - Hieght : 632 m - Built : 2015 3.

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I picked this video because I'm from New York and hope to one day take part in a project in the city.

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Quick City Overview: New York City, United States of America (HD)

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Website: http://www.epicheaven.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpicMediaArgentina/timeline/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/epicargentina Google+: https://plus.google.com/104198077913997130284/posts Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/epicmedia/ ---- Quick City Overview: New York City, United States of America (HD) New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world-the New York metropolitan area.

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I picked this video because it is another great over view about what construction management really is.

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I chose this video because it shows this project being created from start to finish which is a beautiful thing to me.

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Dunbar High School Construction Time-Lapse

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EarthCam's construction camera technology documented progress from start to finish for the new Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. Watch 20 months of construction progress with this hand-edited megapixel imagery.

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I picked this video because this video is a perfect example of what happens when their isn't a good construction manager. I want to be a part of this field to prevent these occurrences

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construction management (field of study)

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Construction Fails Compilation 2014 Reupload http://www.tube-vid.com Epic Fail Video. VideoFailEpic.

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I picked this picture because it reminded me of my mother. I chose construction because i wanna be successful to be able to provide for my mother for all the years she has provided for me.

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I picked this picture because it shows the construction industry is on the rise. This feild is something that will always grow because stuff will always need to be built.

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I picked this picture because it shows these construction workers working together to get the job done which is important to me.

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i Picked this picture because at a kid i always liked building these toys and watching all the pieces come togther which is similar to construction

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I picked this picture because in high school my major was carpentry. This when i first realized i really wanted to take part in construction.

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I picked this picture because i took this on our trip to washington dc. This trip sparked my intrest because it was my first hands on view of how these big construction companies work.

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I picked this company because unlike many other companies they push to deliver quality, on time, and budgeted projects. They also push environmental stewardship and and community relations which i feel is important for construction projects.

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That's what we do at Barnard. Whether we're raising a dam in Alaska, constructing a reservoir in Florida, tunneling under downtown San Francisco, redirecting a river while building a complex hydropower plant in northern Manitoba, or strengthening and improving the integrity of a natural gas pipeline in a Sacramento suburb, our people arrive at our projects with a determination to do the best for their communities and be the best in the industry.

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i picked this company because it is a family owned company . One day i want to be fortunate enough to start my own company.

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Gilbane, Inc. Is one of the largest privately-held family-owned construction and real-estate development firms in the industry.

About

Gilbane, Inc., headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, is one of the largest privately held family-owned construction and real estate development firms in the industry. Founded in 1873, Gilbane has active participation from the 4th, 5th and 6th generations. Concentrating in select markets throughout North America, as well as internationally, Gilbane has 46 office locations around the world, as an industry leader in construction and real estate development.

With several billion square feet of successful project completions to our credit, including some of the most complex assignments, we have demonstrated time and time again our expertise in turning the most challenging situations into successfully completed buildings. We strive to bring our core values, expertise and integrated client-focused team approach as we deliver value in each of our projects in streamlined process.

Board of Directors

Thomas F. Gilbane III

Thomas F. Gilbane III is a managing member of Rockpoint Group LLC, a global real estate investment management firm. In 1999, Mr. Gilbane joined Rockpoint's predecessor, Westbrook Real Estate Partners ("WREP"), with a concentration on their Eastern United States and European investment and asset management activities. Prior to joining WREP, he worked in Merrill Lynch's Real Estate Investment Banking Group.

A graduate of Brown University with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mr. Gilbane is chairman of the board of Overseers for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and is actively involved with Boston Children's Hospital.

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Gilbane Family

Building More Than Buildings

Our camaraderie and team sentiment is rooted in our family history. There are more than a century of lessons learned incorporated into everything we do. We've built and developed millions of square feet of facilities throughout the United States and internationally. This history gives us the insight and experience necessary to deliver maximum value in all construction and real estate development projects for clients.

Gilbane, Inc.

We have active participation from multiple generations at both the Building Company and Development Company. Thomas F. Gilbane Jr. is chairman and CEO of Gilbane, Inc. and chairman of Gilbane Building Company. William J. Gilbane Jr. is vice president of Gilbane, Inc. and vice chairman of Gilbane Building Company and Robert V. Gilbane is chairman and CEO of Gilbane Development Company and vice president of Gilbane, Inc. Paul J. Choquette Jr., son of third-generation family member Virginia Gilbane Choquette, is vice chairman of Gilbane, Inc.

History

Legacy

Gilbane is the builder and developer of some of the most highly visible projects domestically and internationally. With a global footprint of 46 office locations around the world and the resources of more than 2,600 people, we are motivated by a commitment to quality and excellence with a determined effort to exceed client expectations.

Gilbane Building Company

Gilbane Building Company is one of the nation's oldest construction companies and is recognized as a leader in the industry. Our vision to be the premier company serving a full spectrum of facility needs to our clients and opportunities for our employees remains steadfast, as does our dedication to core values. We are a leading building firm, providing full construction and facilities-related services from sustainable building to the latest in construction technology for clients across various markets.

Gilbane Development Company

Gilbane Development Company is the real estate development, investment and property management arm of Gilbane, Inc. We've been creating and implementing successful real estate programs for public, private and non-profit clients throughout the United States for four decades. Our goal is to serve as a single resource for navigating the tangled web of variables associated with real estate development, construction, financing, operations, and management.

Interactive Timeline

Click here to view an interactive timeline featuring key milestones in Gilbane history, from immigration to America from Ireland to present day projects.

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Gilbane, Inc. Is one of the largest privately-held family-owned construction and real-estate development firms in the industry. Gilbane, Inc., headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, is one of the largest privately held family-owned construction and real estate development firms in the industry. Founded in 1873, Gilbane has active participation from the 4th, 5th and 6th generations.

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I picked this company because they have a large number of projects. They also take part in real estate which goes hand and hand so they will stay in business.

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Tishman | Hotels | Realty | Real Estate Services | Home

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I chose this company because after hearing my classmates internship i realized how much opportunities companies like this offer for the future.

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© Copyright 2018 Clune Construction Company. All Rights Reserved.

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I chose this company after seeing their past project and this is another big company that i would like to be a part of.

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Danbury Fair Mall Providence Business News

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Daly Field Breaks Ground West Coast Growth Leads to New Office

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New Beverly Hills Maison Profiled in LA Times Shawmut Hosts 7th Annual Nationwide Safety Week Providence Business News

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Southern Florida Athletic Complex for Simmons College

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Trend InterContinental New York Barclay Reopens

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IFMA Boston Awards of Excellence Brown University

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Community Servings Choate Rosemary Hall Celebrates Beam Signing for New St. John Hall Primark

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Deliver Best-in-Class Client Service Miami Office Named Best Place

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The New York Times Using Lean Philosophy

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We take the same approach to every construction management project: from day one all the way through the ribbon cutting, we put your interests ahead of ours.

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i picked this company because i was fortunate enough to work for them over this past summer. They showed me the design side to construction and how a company could be a second family

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I chose this company because it was the first company to offer me a internship. Their work is more with material testing which is another important part of construction.

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WTC Tower One

Advance Testing has provided a variety of construction support services for the Port Authority of NY & NJ during the rebuilding of WTC Tower One, including document control support, concrete and reinforcing steel inspection, and structural steel, weld and bolt inspections.

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Advance Testing - Construction Materials Testing

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Advance Testing has provided a variety of construction support services for the Port Authority of NY & NJ during the rebuilding of WTC Tower One, including document control support, concrete and reinforcing steel inspection, and structural steel, weld and bolt inspections.

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i chose this company because this is another big company that has projects worldwide.

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Turner has a culture of innovation and promotes advances in technology, sustainability, lean practices, building information modeling, safety, community involvement, learning and development, and knowledge sharing.

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I picked this company because after hearing my classmates presentation about his project it made me really interested in commerical construction

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T.G. Nickel & Associates is an experienced construction management and general contracting firm serving clients in the academic, corporate interiors, healthcare, landmark restoration and residential markets. For nearly two decades, our clients have depended on us to provide the honest, straightforward solutions needed to successfully guide a project from concept to completion. On every project-no matter the size-we make decisions with our clients' best interest in mind, always striving to provide the highest standards in quality, schedule and cost.

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About Nickel T.G. Nickel & Associates is an experienced construction management and general contracting firm serving clients in the academic, corporate interiors, healthcare, landmark restoration and residential markets. For nearly two decades, our clients have depended on us to provide the honest, straightforward solutions needed to

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I picked this company because this was the first construction company that i learned about. They have a variety of projects nation wide which is very interesting.

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Since 1909, the firm has been guided by the principles of integrity, excellence and customer delight in the delivery of construction services.

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P4
I picked this picture because it shows a team. In construction management there is a lot of people that come together to get the project done.

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P3
I picked this project because in the end old the hard work put in to this field will be worth it. I feel as if the construction field is ever growing because there will always be something to be built. So sticking it out will lead to success.

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P2
I picked this project because watching a project come along amazes me. From seeing a projects in its planning stages come to reality.

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V1
I picked this video because it was very informal about what construction managers actually do. This is something I can see my self doing in the near future.

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A Day in the Life: Construction Project Management

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I Picked this picture because it reminded me of our trip to Washington which I found very beneficial of seeing construction hands on.