Protruding Pilings Challenge Power Station Construction (Constructioneer)

Executive Quote and Information Service : EQUIS, September, 2007

Increasing energy consumption in New York City prompted Con Edison, one of the nation's largest investor-owned energy companies, to build a substation that would help meet the growing demand. Con Edison turned to D'Onofrio General Construction for the expertise and equipment that could easily handle backfilling material on the job site's ever-changing elevation.

Standing where an old Farberware facility once stood in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, the substation has been in the planning stages for several years. Demolition of the Farberware facility began in January 2005 and construction for the new substation started in July 2005.

"We needed to build a substation to meet New York City's current and future energy needs," notes Brian Yee-Chan,...