Design – Construction – Operations
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — School of Architecture Dean Kenneth Schwartz and a team of colleagues at Tulane University in New Orleans partnered with Newark’s New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in an effort to start restoring parts of the coastal Seaside Heights community, several parts of which were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.
Read moreDULUTH, Minn. — Hurricane Sandy damaged sixty-five schools in New York City alone, along with dozens more across the affected region. Catastrophe risk modeling firm EQECAT said total damage from the storm could be up to $50 billion, second only to Hurricane Katrina. But the millions of dollars of government money that will flow to contractors for rebuilding schools come with strings attached. The Davis-Bacon act requires contractors receiving government money to fill out forms proving they paid prevailing wages.
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