Atlantic Yards Stage 3 & 4
Location:
Brooklyn, NY
Client:
Greenland Forest City Partners
Contract Value:
$301 Million
Project Dates:
2014 to 2020
- Complete reconstruction of Long Island Rail Road’s (LIRR’s) Vanderbilt Yard (VD)
- Installation of approximately 2,100 LF of 20’ tall x 3’6” thick retaining wall
- Support of Excavation (SOE) elements installed included: (165) 24” soldier piles, 50,000 sq-ft of timber lagging, (390) hollow bar tie-backs.
- Installation of deep foundation elements including (165) 13-3/8” diameter piles and (104) 24” diameter caissons
- (160) pile caps/footings/piers for future platform overbuild consisting of 25,000+ CY of concrete
- Over 160,000 CY of excavation
- Installation of over four miles of electrical duct bank, new AC&DC traction power substations, (3) 38 KV Transformers, (2) Rectifier Transformers, 5KV Substation, 480V Substation, LIRR MG Set, LIRR CIL Hut to control yard signals, and overhead catenary lighting
- Installation of structural steel for LIRR East & West Portal tunnels and yard access ramp
- Installation of a 4,000 SF modular employee facility building, elevator building, and prefabricated pedestrian bridge
- Installation of over 200 LF of 48” diameter water main
- Installation of (7) new storage tracks
- All work was done within an active railyard and LIRR Atlantic Tunnel.




















