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Job Spotlight
Google
New York City is officially becoming Contractors “All the construction is centered
Googlefied. The tech giant is expanding around keeping the employee happy
and sprawling throughout the lower Drywall and centered at their desk, which is
West side of Manhattan and our Jacobson completely different to how we see
members are hard at work at several of Donaldson Interiors other office structures,” he added.
their job sites. Eurotech Construction
Commodore Construction
Superior Acoustic Members James Devane, Local 157, and
Business Representative Eamon Carey Metropolitan Drywall Luis Delgado, Local 926 and a general
explained how important the work at foreman with Jacobson, are at work on
Google has been. “It’s kept us busy Furniture and Office Front Google’s 111 8th Avenue site. James
for the last two years. It’s been a large Elite Union Installation said working at Google is “wild.”
amount of work, particularly at 111 8th Al-Lee
Avenue. We’re expanding now into the Certified Installation “There’s so many different aspects
next phase at Pier 57. We’re going to Twenty Four 7 and a lot of different building methods
be building again at 85 10th Avenue, at Precision Furniture we’re using, like the ceiling the walls.
the Milk Building, and Chelsea Market, Right now, we’re building these pods
and by the end of the year we should Millwork which don’t hit the traditional deck
be in full construction mode at 550 Greenwood Products height. It stops in the middle and you
Washington. We are just wrapping up Wood Pro 2 have all these different angles to it and
Supreme Woodworking
both 315 and 345 Hudson Street, so American Wood Installers elevations. So, it’s not your typical box
it’s been hundreds of thousands of work inside a box,” James said.
hours already, and it will be hundreds of Fabric Panel and Architectural
thousands of hours to come.” Metal and Glass Luis commented that the pods are being
Cavanagh Wall Solutions made to look like a city within the city.
Each of these locations will become Lafayette Glass They’re calling it “the neighborhood,” he
part of Google’s epic new campus. Empire Architectural Metal said. Luis also said he thinks the most
Most of the office buildings will & Glass remarkable structure at the job site will
be interconnected by a series of Jonathan M&G be the café.
overpasses, ensuring that Google
employees will never have to leave their Flooring “The café will be the highlight of the
work site. District Council members Consolidated Carpet floor. The amount of detail and design
working on the project each said they’ve Sherland & Farrington that went into it with all the different
never built a corporate office quite like Century Carpet products is something that took a lot
this. Hi-Tech Data Floors of thought and they definitely put their
Raised Computer Floors
best foot forward in terms of building
Eamon stated how all their spaces are that space.”
centered around their workforce and
keeping their workforce happy. Each
Google building will have a daycare.
There are also dance studios, work out
stations, meditation areas, and scooter
racks (some of buildings are so large
that scooters are required to get from
one end to the other to save time!) Our
members are even building what’s being
dubbed as scream rooms. When Google
employees get frustrated, they can go
into a soundproof room and “scream
themselves happy,” according to Eamon.
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