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Most construction projects have the luxury of an empty building. The crew shows up, the space is theirs, and the work proceeds on its own schedule. Occupied building construction is a different situation. The patients are still in the rooms down the hall. The students are still in class on the floor above. The government office is still processing applications two corridors away. Working in that environment is not simply a matter of being careful. It requires a fundamentally

When the Battery Park City Authority needed to protect the Museum of Jewish Heritage from storm surge without blocking its views of New York Harbor, the engineering answer was a 250-foot flood barrier topped with toughened glass. It was the first flood wall of its kind in New York City, and only the second in the United States. 4D Construction, Inc. was the contractor that built it. That project, completed as part of the $298 million South Battery Park City Resiliency Project