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Boston Globe
a day ago
- Business
- Boston Globe
Suffolk Construction will soon get more revenue from New York projects than Boston
'By far, this is the most complicated historic building the company has done in its history,' Fish says. 'It's almost like the Great Gatsby days, that's what it reminds me of. ... You literally would think you're back in the '30s if you walked in the ballroom today.' Advertisement A rendering of 'The Torch,' a hotel tower that Suffolk Construction is building in Midtown Manhattan. Illustration courtesy of ODA and SLCE Architects Advertisement One mile to the west, a very different looking hotel will rise over the Theatre District. Suffolk is working with developer Extell there to put up an 825-room 'supertall' hotel. What makes the building unique isn't the height — though it will approach nearly 1,100 feet, or 52 stories. It's the spiraled X-like shape of the building, inspired to some extent by the torch held by the Statue of Liberty, thus earning the 'Torch' nickname. (Plus there will be a 'drop ride' stretching along the tower's spine.) Fish considers it to be one of Suffolk's one-of-a-kind structures, like the tower the company built for the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Fort Lauderdale that's shaped like a giant guitar. Fish expects to generate $2.2 billion in revenue out of Suffolk's Boston projects this year, out of $8.5 billion in total, and a similar amount next year. But the revenue coming from New York will soon surpass those levels. Fish credits his team there, led by Ralph Esposito, whom Fish recruited from LendLease in 2020, three years after Suffolk entered the city. Besides, everything in New York seems to be supersized in some way. 'New York will eclipse Boston in the next 18 months [for Suffolk],' Fish said. 'It's a much larger market, [and] the size of the projects are much greater than they are in any other part of the country.' This is an installment of our weekly Bold Types column about the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene. Jon Chesto can be reached at
Forbes
6 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
The CEO Who Is Embracing Technology In Construction
The construction industry in the US is a $2.1 trillion dollar industry which has historically been driven by human labor. Though the Covid-19 pandemic sent the industry into a tailspin with people working from home, supply chain issues and rising material costs, it's still one of the largest sectors of the US economy. But it hasn't fully recovered. Construction firms are looking for new ways to evolve. One company paving the way towards change is Suffolk Construction, based in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and led by its Chairman and longtime CEO, John Fish. Fish is not your traditional construction CEO. He's geared the business toward embracing disruptive technologies, like robotics and artificial intelligence, venture capital investments, and embracing how the built world is changing from technology.
New York Post
02-07-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Meet the $100K robodog Spot that patrols a Long Island construction site
See Spot run — a job site. A Long Island construction project has recruited a $100,000 mechanical mutt to walk the premises, ensuring maximum efficiency and safety for workers building the new wing of South Shore Hospital in Bay Shore. 'I would say it's a morale booster,' Suffolk Construction's Adam Fyrer, who handles the state-of-the-art Boston Dynamics-made robotic dog — aptly named Spot — told The Post. 3 Suffolk Construction is using a state-of-the-art mechanical dog to walk around the premises of South Shore Hospital keeping workers safe while installing a new wing for the building. Dennis A. Clark 'I think a lot of people haven't seen this kind of technology in person. It's something that excites them to come to work.' Rather than doing tricks, Spot's primary focus on the future site of a six-story building that will feature almost 100 new patient rooms is both worker and structural safety, according to Fyrer, who uses the bot on other projects as well. Spot primarily conducts walkthroughs on the property that would conventionally be delegated to someone like a project manager, to create a 'Google Street'-esque map that owners can refer to upon the job's completion. 'The benefit of that is you get it more accurate and continuously throughout the job cycle,' Fyrer said, adding that Spot's trips take off about an hour of labor a day at the Northwell Health facility. Dog days The yellow-and-black construction companion, which can run on a lithium-ion battery for approximately 90 minutes at a time, is also capable of self-navigating around obstacles or people on the move. 'It's intelligent as well,' Fyrer said of the 75-pound device that can go up and down stairs with ease. 'It will be able to say, 'hey, there's something there,' then stop, wait for it to pass, and then it will continue on its path — or it will find another way to go around that.' 3 The $100,000 mechanical mutt has been seen as 'a morale booster,' says Suffolk Construction's Adam Fyrer. Dennis A. Clark Camera technology inside Spot can also be harnessed to identify any workers who aren't adhering to safety codes on a job by detecting blatant violations, such as not wearing hard hats. 'Then we can trigger a conversation with that person.' Clients like Northwell are also more than satisfied to see things propelled into the next generation, too. 'It's nice to see a company thinking outside the box and bringing new technology in,' Vinod Nair, the hospital's vice president of operations, said. 'As well as embracing higher, sophisticated technologies in the industry.' 3 Spot, the name of the Boston Dynamics-made robotic dog is primarily used to conduct walkthroughs as Fryer also mentions the benefits of having the robot takes off about an hour of labor per day. Dennis A. Clark Spot is also built to endure, according to Fyrer, who called the robot 'extremely rugged.' 'Boston Dynamics did a phenomenal job building this system…it can take a hit,' he said. 'Lighter people have sat on it.' Keep up with today's most important news Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update. Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters Man's best friend The robodog is also brought to area schools for demonstrations on what it can mean for their generation of technology and the workforce. Fyrer maintains that advances like Spot won't be stealing jobs, but making employees' lives much easier. 'Look at some of the guys who were in the industry for 50, 60 years,' he said. ''They're like, yeah, if I had something that was able to help me do my job, that was a robot, or assistive in nature, that would have saved my job and longevity.'' However, at least in Bay Shore, more workers seem more obsessed than afraid, as several ran up to check out and interact with Spot during a Tuesday site walkthrough. 'That's why we usually have to run him at night when hardly anyone is here,' Fyrer joked.
New York Times
01-06-2025
- Business
- New York Times
The Business Interests Bankrolling Andrew Cuomo's Run for Mayor
A quarter-million dollars came from the head of Suffolk Construction, a Boston-based builder betting big on a New York City expansion. Another $150,000 arrived from the chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, who is searching for a way to revive a stalled Midtown Manhattan redevelopment so important that he once called it his 'promised land.' DoorDash, the food delivery service lobbying City Hall on regulations that could disrupt its business model, chipped in a staggering $1 million. The donations make up just a fraction of the checks from New York business leaders, billionaires and special interest groups pouring into a super PAC boosting Andrew M. Cuomo, the favorite in the Democratic primary for mayor on June 24. With $10 million raised so far, the super PAC, Fix the City, is already the single largest outside spending force in New York City's political history, surpassing a record set in 2021. It has spent multiples more on ads than any campaign in the race, blanketing New Yorkers' screens in paeans to the former governor. The next biggest candidate super PAC, set up to back Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who is second in recent polls, has 1/50th of the funds. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
