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INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES and NYC CLIMATE RISKS INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES And NYC CLIMATE RISKS HI-BRIDGE ORIGINAL BRIDGE : 15 MASONRY ARCHES - BUILT 1839-1848 FIVE MASONARY SPANS REPLACED WITH STEEL ARCH – 1928 1958 OLD CROTON AQUEDUCT REMOVED 1960 DPR OWNERSHIP 1/2013 NYC Infrastructure reconstruction challenges • It is widely recognized that a significant percentage of the country's infrastructure has reached its useful life and must be replaced. • This infrastructure renewal is first and foremost a serious challenge for the nation's urban areas where people, financial and cultural centers are concentrated. • This presentation is an overview of some of New York City's approaches that go beyond just infrastructure reconstruction. • New York City Department of Design + Construction (DDC) • DDC was created in 1995 to provide design and construction expertise to 23 City agencies. • This centralization enables our client agencies to focus on delivering their quality services to the public. • It also allows DDC to focus on our core mission which is to strive for the highest degree of engineering, architectural design and construction quality while improving the urban environment. • We manage the design and construction for publicly funded city buildings and the basic infrastructure that New Yorkers routinely rely on every day. • Sewers, water main and roads projects are designed and managed by DDC Infrastructure Division. • Building projects are managed by DDC Public Buildings Division. New York City Department of Design + Construction (DDC) • created in October 1995 • oversees capital projects of 23 City agencies • performs design and construction services • Infrastructure Division streets sewers water mains retaining walls plazas bio-retention - BMPs • Public Buildings Division correctional and court facilities cultural institutions libraries firehouses police stations • uses in-house resources and private consultants and contractors New York City owns approximately 1,300 buildings and leases over 12.8 million square feet of office space DDC Projects Completed – 2002 through 2012 PUBLIC BUILDINGS Police Facilities Total: $243.6 mil. 5 New Buildings $119.4 8 Major Reconstruction $97.8 9 Upgrades $26.4 Fire/EMS Facilities Total: $444.5 mil. 11 New Facilities $218.60 15 Major Reconstruction $104.2 91 Upgrades $121.7 Libraries: NYPL $337.8 mil. (Manh, Bronx, S.I.) 8 New Libraries $49.0 35 Major Reconstruction $256.0 58 Upgrades $32.8 Libraries: BPL $86.1 mil. (Brooklyn) 3 New Branch Libraries $33.7 21 Major Reconstruction $37.6 51 Upgrades $14.8 Libraries: QPL $98.5 mil. (Queens) 6 New Branch Libraries $57.2 9 Major Reconstruction $9.4 36 Upgrades $31.9 Cultural Institutions $1.13 bil. 18 New Facilities $408.1 79 Major Reconstruction $574.5 112 Upgrades $147.6 Department of Environmental Protection Total: $373.7 mil. 1 New Facility $47.2 29 Upgrades $326.5 Department of Transportation Total: $83.1 mil. 1 New Facility $18.9 22 Major Reconstruction $64.2 Health Facilities Total: $247.6 mil. 1 New Facility $67.2 76 Major Reconstruction $126.4 59 Upgrades $54.0 Human Services Facilities Total: $293.5 mil. 7 New Facilities $8.8 48 Major Reconstruction $193.1 65 Upgrades $91.6 Courts Total: $27.2 mil. 2 Major Reconstruction $7.5 11 Upgrades $19.7 Corrections Total: $482.2 mil. 7 New Facilities $155.9 4 Major Reconstruction $73.6 38 Upgrades $252.7 TOTAL: $3.9 Billion 4,336 PROJECTS 745 MILES (402 Km) OF SIDEWALKS AND STREET RECONSTRUCTED 735 MILES (1178 Km) OF NEW WATER MAINS 554 MILES (888 Km) OF NEW STORM AND SANITARY SEWERS 10,100 HOMES CONNECTED TO THE MUNICIPAL SYSTEM FOR THE FIRST TIME DDC Projects Completed – 2002 through 2012 INFRASTRUCTURE Program $ (Mil) Bluebelt Projects $356.6 Emergency Repair $34.2 Milling (in preparation for resurfacing) $278.6 Pedestrian Ramps $163.8 Pedestrian Safety Improvements $60.2 Plazas $73.0 Retaining Walls $51.0 Roadway Reconst/ Infrastructure Development $1,053.8 Sewer Installation (Storm, Sanitary, Combined) $622.6 Sewer Rehabilitation $11.8 Sidewalk Maintenance $249.8 South Queens Flood Remediation $94.1 Special Projects (Step Streets, Bulkheads) $91.0 Streetscape $5.0 Water Mains $566.8 TOTAL: $3,712 NYC Capital Budget • NYC Five-Year Capital Plan $39.5 billion • DDC current design and construction 5 Year portfolio is about $7.8 billion or 20% of NYC Capital Budget plan. 1. Infrastructure Division designs and builds road, sewers and water main projects for DOT and DEP with portfolio of more than $4.2b 2. Public Buildings Division designs and builds structures projects for multiple agencies and has a portfolio worth more than $3.6b PUBLIC BUILDINGS 5-YEAR ACTIVE PORTFOLIO BY TYPES OF PROJECTS $3,666,684,449 Corrections Transportation Courts $335,971,257 Cultural Facilities Corrections $673,435,556 Fire Courts $122,570,937 Health Facilities Human Services Cultural Facilities Libraries Police * $331,988,423 $1,521,409,585 Parks Fire Police * $158,214,954 Transportation Health Facilities $69,858,505 Human Services $166,759,000 Libraries Parks $182,962,232 $97,514,000 The new Police Academy will provide training space for up to 4,000 recruits per year while satisfying the ongoing requirements of the NYPD's uniformed officers and civilian corps. The campus will consolidate the Department’s academic and training facilities currently scattered across the City. The overall complex will include instructional spaces for providing immersive, scenario-based training for police personnel, indoor firing ranges, a sophisticated tactical training building, classroom and administrative space and a driver training course. The new Academy will be one of the largest environmentally sustainable complexes in New York City. College Point, Queens Est. $ 737 million The Public Safety Answering Center II (PSAC II) will be a second emergency communications 911 call intake and dispatch center for the City; The new building will act as a parallel operation to the existing PSAC I in downtown Brooklyn and will augment and provide redundancy to the current emergency 911 response service; It will serve as a streamlined emergency call and dispatch center for all of the City’s first responders, including the NYPD, FDNY and the Emergency Medical Services, and; will house command control centers for the FDNY and the NYPD in order to coordinate emergency response throughout the entire city at a centralized location. Hutchinson Center, Bronx Est. $583 million NYC CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE 322 square miles - City area 6,375 miles of streets 6,417 miles of sewers 144,000 Catch Basins 6,134 miles of water mains 14 miles of public Beaches 520 miles of water front 149 miles of interceptor sewers 14,000 acres of Staten Island "Blue Belt" storm water management system 2,000 square miles of watershed 19 Clean Water Reservoirs; 3 controlled lakes 580 billion gallons drinking water storage capacity 700 miles of subway 90,000 miles underground power cables 14 Wastewater Treatment Plants 2,000 bridges and tunnels 5.2 million trees 6,000 acres of wetlands NYC Statistics Streets 6,375 miles (10,580 km) Sewers (Storm, Sanitary & Combined) 6,417 miles (10,700 km) Size – 6” to over 90” diameter (150 mm to 2300 mm) Age – 66.4% built prior to 1940 Water mains 6,134 miles (10,225 km) Size – 8” to over 72 “ diameter (200 mm to 1800 mm) Age – 59.4% built prior to 1940 1000 miles of water mains are estimated to be over 100 years old. Water Main Break Floods Flatiron District A massive water main break in Flatiron sent water cascading into a subway station at Broadway and 23rd St. late Friday morning, leading portions of the N and Q lines to be closed all afternoon. The main — a 36-inch pipe dating to 1915 — ruptured at 24th St. and Broadway about 10:45 a.m. Friday, February 1, 2013, flooding area streets and sending water rushing down into the subway system. The MTA says N/Q service is suspended between De Kalb and 57th and 7th or R service between Queens Plaza and Whitehall as the power has been turned off at the flooded station. Also? Expect a lot of traffic around Madison Square Park today. Massive water main break drenches a subway station in Flatiron, knocking out service on the N and Q lines for hours The break was at 24th St. and Broadway, and sent water flooding down into the subway station at 23rd St. and Broadway. Normal service has been restored normal service was restored on the N, Q, B and D lines. The R train is running on alternate lines. By Pete Donohue / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, February 1, 2013, 1:46 PM Lisa Marie Pompilio Street Flooding – inadequate drainage Sink Hole – cause by underground sewer collapse Electric manhole fire-30-83 Crescent St (Queens) INFRASTRUCTURE 5-YEAR ACTIVE PORTFOLIO BY TYPES OF PROJECTS 3rd Water Tunnel Projects $4,296,597,000 Bluebelt Projects Streetscape Emergency Repair Special Projects (Step Streets, $78,020,000 Bulkheads) Blue-belt Projects $58,631,000 $89,228,000 Green Infrastructure Water Mains 3rd Water Tunnel Roadway Reconst/ $501,640,000 Emergency Repair South Queens Flood Remediation Projects Infrastructure Development $468,097,000 $150,045,000 $186,931,000 Milling Sidewalk Maintenance $53,221,000 Green Infrastructure $63,846,000 Pedestrian Bridges Sewer Rehabilitation, $39,719,000 Pedestrian Ramps Pedestrian Safety Sewer Installation (Storm, Improvements Sanitary, Combined) Roadway Reconstruction/ Plazas $702,989,000 Infrastructure Development $1,355,167,000 Retaining Walls Select Bus Service Select Bus Service Improvements $25,368,000 Improvements Sewer Installation (Storm, Retaining Walls Sanitary, Combined) $43,592,000 Sewer Rehabilitation Plazas $140,279,000 Milling Sidewalk Maintenance Pedestrian Safety Improvements, $91,908,000 $98,828,000 Pedestrian Bridges South Queens Flood Pedestrian Ramps $85,457,000 Remediation $63,631,000 Special Projects (Step Streets, Bulkheads) Streetscape NYC water supply system • 1.2 billion gallons drinking water per day daily • Serving 8 million residents of New York City plus approximately one million people living in Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties.
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