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Category: Building Trades

Meet the WTC’s ‘Man of Steel’

February 19, 2013 Marc Bussanich  The typical office tower in New York City contains about 3,000 tons of reinforcing bars to guarantee the necessary resistance to the elements. But One

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Residential Projects Increases

February 19, 2013 By Stephanie West Residential Starts Rise 54 Percent; Public Works and Non-Residential Starts Slip   Sparked by a sharp increase in new residential projects, New York City

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Carpenters Hammer TIAA-CREF!

February 12, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco Despite an aggressive campaign highlighting their involvement in a notorious construction site “sweatshop” in Queens, the largest retirement fund in the country and the

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Developer Earns ‘A Big, Fat ‘F’

February 7, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco and Marc Bussanich Build Up NYC, a broad coalition of 250,000 private sector workers in the building trades and their affiliates, issued its first

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