July 3, 2002—The public authority charged with transforming five miles of West Manhattan’s waterfront docklands into a series of parks and public spaces has selected Constructware as its standard project management and collaboration tool. The Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT), which is a partnership of New York State and the City of New York, has been pilot testing Constructware’s Internet-based project management collaboration solution since early 2001 and recently signed an enterprise contract that will expand use of Constructware to all program team members over the next year.
The roughly 550 acres of parkland along the Hudson River consists of seven segments totaling five miles, and extends from Battery Park in lower Manhattan to West 59th Street. It is the largest park program in New York City since Central Park was designed and constructed in the 1850s through the 1870s. The overall program is budgeted at roughly $380 million. The first segment of the Hudson River Park, west of Greenwich Village, will be completed in the spring of 2003.
The Trust and its construction management firm, DMJM+Harris, will use Constructware to coordinate and manage the work of roughly 50 engineering and architectural consulting firms, and the work of specialty contractors. HRPT says that Constructware’s up-to-date information gives them the ability to effectively manage scores of companies with close attention to detail, and to remain accountable to taxpayers.
