Resiliency Project Addressing Sea Level Rise, Storm Damage Advances in Lower Manhattan

A project team comprised of a Turner Construction Company and E.E. Cruz joint venture, along with Arcadis, the Bjark Ingels Group, Scape Landscape Architecture and WSP was selected by the Battery Park City Authority for its North/West Resiliency Project in New York. The project aims to expand and enhance Battery Park City public spaces. It is the largest coastal resiliency project developed by BPCA and will address the impacts of sea level rise and the risk of storm damage.

Under a Progressive Design-Build delivery model, the project team will engineer and build approximately 8,000 linear feet of flood and seepage barriers, and interior drainage improvements all the while protecting and enhancing landscapes and parkland. The BPCA has already engaged the community in the planning for the enhanced resiliency of the 92-acre neighborhood on the Hudson River, and the PDB delivery model will enable the BPCA and the project team to invite and incorporate further community input on the design as it is developed to ensure that the public is part of the process as it progresses.