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Workers install base of spire at One World Trade Center
Workers at the the construction site of One World Trade Center installed the first piece of the building’s spire on January 15, the AP reported. Once the spire is complete, the 104-floor skyscraper will be the tallest in the Western Hemisphere. The nearly 70-ton piece arrived in Manhattan on December 12. It’s the heaviest of […]
January 16, 2013
Business
New York reviews methods to prepare, respond to future disasters
The NYS 2100 Commission, a panel put in place to issue recommendations for how New York should spend some of the $60 billion it received to recover from superstorm Sandy that hit October 29, released its preliminary report on ways to harden infrastructure in case of future emergencies, The Wall Street Journal reported. Rockefeller Foundation […]
January 8, 2013
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Escalator climbs its way into Four World Trade Center
This photo of a new escalator making its way to the top floors of a skyscraper at the World Trade Center construction site made its way to Reddit. If the perspective throws you off, that’s because the photo was reportedly taken from One World Trade Center, where a crane atop the building is hoisting the […]
December 19, 2012
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Spire of One World Trade Center arrives in NYC
Very cool moment for construction workers in New York City today as the crowning spire for One World Trade Center arrived by boat, the Associated Press reported. “It signifies that we’re back, we’re better than ever, and it shows the resilience of not just New York, but also people in general,” Steven Plate, the director […]
December 12, 2012
Roadbuilding
The city under your feet
Under many of our big cities is another city. A place of tunnels and sewers and open spaces. Steve Duncan studies and photographs these places. If I am the Roadologist, Steve is the Sewerologist. In fact he calls his postgraduate studies work “sewerology.”  It’s the sort of idea that can change your city experience. If […]
August 6, 2012
Construction Equipment
The equipment (and cost) behind NYC’s Second Avenue Subway
CNN Money has a really interesting piece on the $4.5 billion budget of the first mile-and-a-half segment of New York City’s Second Avenue Subway, currently under construction: What contributes to the mammoth tab? Big machinery, for starters. At $800,000 a piece, equipment such as hydraulic drill jumbos and load-haul-dump loaders can rack up a bill […]
June 14, 2012
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