NYCHA - Lavanburg Housing & Battered Women Shelter

New York, NY

Ellana provided cost estimating services and consultation during the Construction Document phase of development. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has provided NYCHA with funding to update and rehab the public housing buildings that require flood mitigation and corrective construction as a result of superstorm Sandy that hit NYC Mid-fall of 2012. The completed construction will provide for resiliency against future flooding for the next 50 years. Some unique aspects of construction on this project include passive floodgates that deploy automatically without human interaction when needed. All utilities will be backed up and provided with redundancy by connecting to the nearby Baruch Housing complex and New Central Heating Plant.

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