NEW YORK | 461 Dean St (Atlantic Yards B2) | 322 FT | 33 FLOORS

[Mike570]

Here's another article: http://www.netsdaily.com/2012/11/30/...eks-will-go-on

This should break ground in 3 weeks

[NYguy]

The video shown here gives a good idea of how the building will rise...
http://continuingeducation.construct...?L=5&C=943&P=2


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The developer’s preferred scheme for building the 350-apartment B2 tower includes 930 modules, each with a steel-framed chassis (above). According to the plan, the modules, including bathrooms, m/e/p services, and finishes, will be assembled in a factory not far from the site. They will be lifted into place by crane around a steel-brace frame (top) that will serve as the building's primary lateral-load-resisting system.

[NYguy]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...sEnabled=false

Handful of renters displaced by Atlantic Yards set to move into new pre-fabricated apartment building

By Reuven Blau
November 29, 2012

For a handful of Prospect Heights residents, moving into the first Atlantic Yards apartment building will be a homecoming of sorts. Seven years ago, 17 renters living in the footprint of the development site accepted a unique deal from Forest City Ratner. In return for moving, the tenants got apartments nearby at the same rent they were paying - covered by FCR.

Tenants were also promised they would be moved into the new 32-story complex called named B2 when it is completed in the summer of 2014. “I worried they were going to renege on the contract but they really stuck to their word,” said Karl Nussbaum, a tenant who took the relocation offer.

Nussbaum, an experimental film artist inititally fought being tossed from his high-ceiling loft at 475 Dean St. But in 2005, he accepted the relocation deal and moved to another loft in Clinton Hill and hasn't worried about rent ever since. “Some people took the buyouts and left town but I wasn't willing to do that,” he recalled.

During the contentious takeover of the 22-acre site, 209 renters living in the area were offered the relocation agreement or a cash payment averaging $85,000, according to an FCR official.

Paul Curtis, 37, was another tenant who took the relocation offer. “We were able to make an agreement to stay in the neighborhood while the project was being built,” he said. Curtis and his wife Rachel Given-Wilson, 33, moved from their two-bedroom apartment at 483 Dean St. into a cost comparable one-bedroom apartment in Park Slope.

The couple and their two-year old daughter, Neko, are now looking forward to moving into the pre-fabricated apartment building in 2014.

[NYguy]

http://www.rew-online.com/2012/12/05...-construction/

Developers, start drooling: Union deal paves way for modular construction


December 5, 2012
By Sarah Trefethen

[NYRebel]

^^^ I'm drooling after seeing that render!

[pico44]

You know, there is a plethora of great projects--either under construction or as proposals--happening in this city right now, but this may very well be the one we see in the textbooks a generation from now.

[ThatOneGuy]

Pretty nice

[Duck From NY]

I'm glad I'm not alone in liking this design.

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by pico44

You know, there is a plethora of great projects--either under construction or as proposals--happening in this city right now, but this may very well be the one we see in the textbooks a generation from now.

do you mean as thee best project of this era or as the most evocative of this era? i'm assuming the latter, yes? could be!

[pico44]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

do you mean as thee best project of this era or as the most evocative of this era? i'm assuming the latter, yes? could be!

More in influential terms. There is certainly a possibility that this will be an outlier building and modular construction such as this won't displace current construction methods. But if it takes off, as I suspect it will, this will be looked upon as the starting point for a new hyperefficient building process that will drastically change the future of architecture.

[NYguy]

Closer to the groundbreaking...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/115375018/...dfni92li661jug

B-2 Tower, Modular Residential

Activities this period are projected to be the commencement of the Phase -1 Maintenanceand Protection of Traffic (MPT) as approved by OCMC and permitted by DOT. (seeattached)

• Initial excavation equipment mobilization in support of the December 18, 2012 Ground Breaking ceremony.

• Mobilization of temporary electrical and staging materials for schedule GroundBreaking.

• Mobilization of construction trailer


MPT for the construction of the B2 Tower will be implemented on the night of Dec 5th.It will consist of the following items among others: relocating the construction fencesa round the site, creating a construction logistics area on Dean Street which closes the Dean Street sidewalk and occupies a portion of the street bed, closing part of the Flatbush Avenue sidewalk to a width of six feet, erecting a sidewalk bridge on Flatbush Avenue,creating a five foot pedestrian pathway in Dean Street, and restriping to have the bikelane share the 12 foot vehicular lane on Dean Street. There will be two phases to the MPT– Phase I: Foundation Construction, and Phase II: Module Erection. The Phase I MPT is projected to be in place for approximately 9 months; after which, the Phase II MPT willbe implemented.

[NYguy]

http://www.modularhomecoach.com/2012...-brooklyn.html

The interiors of the modular units are similar to traditionally built housing.
Designed by SHoP Architects, the same lower Manhattan-based firm that completed Barclays Center, B2 will comprise 363 residential units with 50% earmarked for low- to middle-income residents. All apartments will have oak wood floors and eco-quartz countertops.


Exteriors consist of setbacks giving the impression of three structures stemming from one. Façade materials include perforated metal frames, beveled channels, and metal panels projecting out. Rather than concrete, the buildings will be held together by a structural steel system. There will be 23 different unit types with 64 variations.

[NYguy]

http://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot....onference.html


December 17, 2012

Tomorrow, at a press conference, a host of people will celebrate the groundbreaking for the first tower at Atlantic Yards--a 32-story, 363-unit B2, which should be the world's tallest modular building.

Officials expected include Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Borough President Marty Markowitz, Forest City Ratner CEO Bruce Ratner, Forest City Enterprises CEO David LaRue, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York President Gary LaBarbera, Skanska USA Building CEO William Flemming, and Bertha Lewis--the latter whose affiliation isn't billed, but who signed the May 2005 Affordable Housing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Forest City as the leader of New York ACORN.

At the groundbreaking, Forest City will display one of the 930 modules used to create the apartments, "50 percent of which will be affordable," according to a press notice.

[dc_denizen]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Tomorrow, at a press conference, a host of people will celebrate the groundbreaking for the first tower at Atlantic Yards--a 32-story, 363-unit B2, which should be the world's tallest modular building.

Officials expected include Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Borough President Marty Markowitz, Forest City Ratner CEO Bruce Ratner, Forest City Enterprises CEO David LaRue, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York President Gary LaBarbera, Skanska USA Building CEO William Flemming, and Bertha Lewis--the latter whose affiliation isn't billed, but who signed the May 2005 Affordable Housing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Forest City as the leader of New York ACORN.

At the groundbreaking, Forest City will display one of the 930 modules used to create the apartments, "50 percent of which will be affordable," according to a press notice.

Ok, this sounds great. However: where are the structural steel and other components going to be made for all these prefab units? How much of the work is domestic compared to imported, and how does this ratio compare to a regular building? Are they are going to import all the steel from low-cost countries, and do only the assembly work here?

[Fardeb]

Didn't realize this was starting quite so soon. Although it might not be the most beautiful tower(it's not bad though) or all that tall, in some ways it's the most interesting one being built in NY thanks to the construction method being used. Hopefully it will be well documented on here.

[NYguy]

http://observer.com/2012/12/would-yo...breaks-ground/

Would You Live In This Giant Steel Box?
Atlantic Yards’ First Modular Tower Breaks Ground





By Matt Chaban
December 18, 2012

Well, modular is here, and it’s real. After decades of dreaming by architects, an unlikely patron, developer Bruce Ratner, has made it possible to build a New York City building in a factory, assembling the units on site. Instead of cars, we will now be rolling apartments off an assembly line.

New Yorkers got their first look at the product, too, or at least the “chasis” around which these units will be built, at a ground breaking for the first Atlantic Yards residential tower, B2, nestled up beside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

“This may be the means and method to create more opportunities for construction that would not have existed if it were not for this technology,” Gary LaBarbera, head of the New York City Building Trades Council declared from the dais.

[NYRebel]

"Would you live in this giant steel box?

YES! Undoubtably. So glad today was the ground breaking!
Probably by Summer we should see some height. Can't wait to track progress.

[yankeesfan1000]

What's the Deal With Atlantic Yards' Modular Construction?
Wednesday, December 19, 2012, by Curbed Staff



"... How much do you save compared to conventional construction? How much faster is it?

We estimated that it's around 12 to 15 percent in savings based what we think our effectiveness will be. We hope it'll be better than that. It does provide tangible savings, because we're producing it around four months faster than conventional construction. We expect to be done in 18 months. The conventional construction would have been 24 months..."

[NYguy]

http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/12/...tlantic-yards/

Developer, NYC officials “dig in” at Atlantic Yards
Construction begins at massive project's first residential tower

December 18, 2012
By Guelda Voien

B2 will rise 32 stories and include 181 units of low-, moderate- and middle-income housing as well as 182 market rate units. The tower is slated for completion in the summer of 2014; two other towers in the area — near the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Dean Street — are set to begin construction in the next six to nine months.

“The modular construction that will be used for B2 and subsequent buildings at the Atlantic Yards has the potential to really change the way cities are built,” Bloomberg said. “It makes construction cheaper, faster and less destructive than ever.”

nycmayorsoffice

[Fardeb]

Are the other two towers that are supposedly starting construction in 6-9 months the other two in the rendings on the last page?