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ALBANY – For those who were wondering if construction on a third lane on Route 17 in Orange and Sullivan counties would come—sooner or later—the answer is later.

TARRYTOWN, NY— Some 30 Professional Engineers attended the Construction Advancement Institute of Westchester & Mid-Hudson’s annual continuing education seminar on Oct. 19 at the Tappan Hill Mansion for a series of presentations under the banner of “Engineering – Knowledge, Innovation, Inspiration.”

HARRISON, NY—The Save the Sound environmental advocacy group and the Town/Village of Harrison have reached a collaborative agreement that would resolve Save the Sound’s Clean Water Act enforcement action filed in 2015 that stemmed from discharges of sewage from the municipality’s sanitary sewers due to deteriorating pipes.

NEW YORK—New York City construction spending will reach $86 billion in 2022, up $38 billion from last year and marking an all-time high, according to a new report released by the New York Building Congress on Oct. 19.

Secretary of Labor v. Huen Electric, Inc. demonstrates the need for construction workers to be properly trained and competent when operating a powered industrial truck (PIT), such as forklifts, lift trucks, stacker trucks/pallet stackers, etc. Some of these PITs have a cabin for the operator, while in others the operator walks and controls from behind.

Inflation can generally be defined as the increase in prices for goods and services within an economy. When prices rise, it’s also true that the purchasing power of the currency also declines. Over the last year, inflation has risen appreciably where the average consumer and business have been impacted in numerous ways.

NEW YORK—A $1.6-billion public-private partnership with The City University of New York to build a new science and research park at Hunter College’s Brookdale Campus on East 25th Street and First Avenue in the Kips Bay section of Manhattan was announced in early October.

A recent report by the Brookings Organization, a Washington, D.C. think tank, indicated that the Federal Reserve likely would need to push unemployment far higher than originally thought (4.1%) if it is to succeed in bringing inflation down to its 2% target by the end of 2024. Federal Reserve policymakers as well as most economists had expected that the upturn in inflation that began in March 2021 would prove transitory. They were wrong.

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