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advantage over competitors.”
Adapting to the changing times keeps
the company busy, Scalamandre notes. “We
have done a lot of roads and bridges over
the last 10 years,” he says.
“We have done several joint ventures,
[which are] comprised of 30 miles of Long
Island expressways, [which constituted] 25
new bridges. And, we slip formed four
miles of highway in Long Island with
356,000 cubic yards of concrete.”
Other projects include a five-story park-
ing garage for St. Francis Hospital in Long
Island, a 500-megawatt power plant in
Queens, and a few terminals and taxiways
for companies such as American Airlines
and JetBlue. PSSI is also known for some
residential high-rise construction.
In fact, it completed the general con-
struction, as well as the concrete super-
structure work on a 25-story mixed-use
school/residence in Battery Park City, N.Y.
In addition, the company completed
two recent high-rise concrete superstruc-
ture projects within the past year, includ-
ing NYU dormitory, a 26-story building in
lower Manhattan, The Standard Hotel, a
20-story hotel in lower Manhattan, and it
PETER SCALAMANDRE AND SONS INC.
is currently working on a 35-story high-
rise reinforced concrete building in
Brooklyn, known as 80 Dekalb Avenue.
Combined Partnership
The power plant sector has been a busy
market through the recent years, Scala-
mandre notes. In fact, the company has
completed civil work on five power plants
in New York in the past five years.
This includes the $37 million Freeport
Generator and the $28 million Freeport
Plant No. 2 developed by Equus Power.
Both power plants were completed as
an EPC contractor (Engineering, Procure-
ment and Construction) in joint-venture
effort with Fresh Meadows Mechanical
Corp., a New York-based mechanical
contractor.
Freeport Plant No. 2 is a 47-megawatt
combustion turbine project producing
electric for the Village of Freeport. It was
built by GFS LLC, a partnership comprised
of Greenman Pedersen Inc., Fresh
Meadows Mechanical and PSSI.
“GFS not only rose to the challenge
of constructing this project on active
utility property, [but] they were essen-
tial to our timely mitigation of the PCB-
contaminated soils that were identified as
site preparations began,” Electric Utilities
Superintendent Hubert Bianco said in a
statement.
“They worked closely with our envi-
ronmental consultant to ensure the reme-
diation effort was conducted in accordance
with all environmental, public safety and
work place safety standards, and kept con-
struction of the combustion turbine mov-
ing forward.”
Because of PSSI’s repeat projects with
Fresh Meadows, the two companies
recently formed a joint venture known as
F&S Power, and are now building power
plants throughout New York. It completed
the $7.3 million Bethpage Energy Center
III in Bethpage, N.Y. The job consisted of
“performing the turnkey civil scope of
work for a combined cycle plant con-
sisting of one GE LM6000 combustion
turbine generator package, innovative
steam technologies and Siemens steam
turbine generator,” PSSI says.
PSSI has also completed a $37 million
subcontracting project at Astoria Energy
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