Although COVID-19 (commonly known as coronavirus) is not currently rapidly spreading through communities in the United States, its impact on Chinese production has been devastating global supply chains. The outbreak has already affected US-based companies in tech, automotive, and airline industries, and is posing a threat to the construction industry. Construction Dive reports: “Richard Branch, chief economist […]
Send in the drones! Following two deaths in the past month caused by debris falling from buildings, the City Council is taking steps to legalize the use of drones for property facade inspections. “Where people walk our streets, they have a reasonable assumption that they are safe from danger,” City Councilmember Robert Cornegy said Monday […]
Debris from an 84-story building under construction on Midtown’s Billionaires’ Row punched a hole in the roof of a yellow taxi Thursday and forced the closure of part of W. 57th St. for the day. No one was hurt in the scary incident, which the city Buildings Department said involved a piece of “terra cotta” […]
Rising costs, the tight labor pool and new requirements for building sustainability — not to mention a potential downturn — have created a new era of caution in construction. “We plan for the worst, hope for the best and usually somewhere in between comes in,” Avana Capital co-founder Sanat Patel said about providing construction financing at Bisnow’s […]
The surprise inspections are New York’s most aggressive effort to tighten oversight of construction sites after a surge in worker injuries as the city undergoes its biggest building boom in more than half a century… …In the first nine months of this year — as dozens of surprise inspections were carried out daily — construction […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio, Deputy Mayor Laura Anglin, and New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) Commissioner Melanie E. La Rocca announced that injuries during the construction of buildings declined more than 26 percent in January through October 2019 compared to the same period last year. The injury decline comes even as the city’s construction boom shows no signs […]
New York City is no stranger to colossal infrastructure and development projects that often come with harrowing delays. The past decade was no exception, with a handful of major projects that have been years (or decades) in the making finally coming into focus—though some are still a long ways off from crossing the finish line. Some […]
