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About $ 29 million in FEMA finance awarded in January at Brooklyn Navy Yard will replace existing boilers and fuel tanks and strengthen other key infrastructure in developing and developing technology in New York City for being resistant to the city Storm.
New York Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and representative Nydia Velazquez (DN.Y.), announced funding to replace teams housed in building 41a and raise the system above elevation d ‘Flood in the old naval site of 300 acres, located for three miles from the East River in Brooklyn, New York
“As one of the main industrial centers in New York City, we are proud to be at home with more than 550 companies and 13,000 workers, but we also know that we are vulnerable to extreme weather events,” says Lindsay Greene, President and CEO of Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp., a non -profit organization that serves as a real estate developer and responsible for properties of the garden for its owner, the city. “This federal award will help us restore and modernize the campus infrastructure that was poorly damaged by Sandy hurricane,” he adds “and catalyzed short -term projects” identified in the resilience strategy of the site.
“We are currently outlining a project schedule that will include the evaluation of infrastructure and the design phase for construction 41A as the following steps, followed by the distribution of a contracting or application to contract a contractor,” he says. A spokesman for the corporation, which occurs “ever” at some point. By the end of this year. “
Hurricane Sandy contributed 80 mph winds and increased 14 -foot storms that caused $ 100 million damage to the yard in 2012, according to resilience strategy, a 147 -page report. When 48 in, of “brackish water” it was lifted above the finished soil of building 41A, electric motors, wiring, ducts, plumbing, insulation and instrumentation of control for steam boilers And the fuel storage system was widely damaged in the building, note, note.
That the damage and more, since then, emphasized the need to develop “an innovative and innovative strategy to advance climate adaptation and protect the garden infrastructure business,” says the report.
Navy Yard and his consultant, Westford, Mass., Ramboll Engineering, worked to identify “risks, restrictions and opportunities,” says the corporation. Among their objectives, they develop “Protective measures to support the [its] Mission, historical interior and maritime work and to integrate the practices of coastal resilience into design solutions, “he says.
Ramboll, with his father -based father in Denmark, used Scalgo, a Danish modeling platform recently expanded in the United States as a member of the TECH Incubator Incubator of Navy Yard NewLab, to model coastal floods and precipitation based on climate danger projections. , The Yard Corporation, The Yard Corporation, The Yard Corporation says. These included 1% of extreme water level events in 2018, 2050 and 2100. For floods based on precipitation, the scenarios included a storm event of the return period of 1% 60 minutes in 2018, 2050 and 2080.
“Our resilience strategy includes an integrated approach that takes into account the sources of flooding and measures of multifunctional flood protection,” says the corporation. Some preliminary consideration include flooding barriers to protecting the construction perimeters that fit the industry’s trends and can achieve the ease of storage and assembly, indicates their report.
For rainwater management, Ramboll can incorporate blue-green infrastructures (elements in an improved open space. This sustainable approach to managing the risk of urban flooding integrates portions of urban landscapes and natural water bodies. A Consideration is a flood square that can capture the rainwater in the upper area The strategy also recommends more rainwater research
In 1801, Brooklyn Navy Yard served as a naval construction center and was in continuous operation until 1966, when it was deactivated and sold in the city, with its greatest expansion since World War II.
