Mr. Mysore L. Nagaraja

• 
  www.newyork.construction.com/features/archive/2008/03_f - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2008    Last Visited: 3/13/2008  

  "The whole landscape is going to change," says Mysore Nagaraja, president of capital construction at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
  
  At peak construction on all of these projects, a total of four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) will be grinding through the Manhattan bedrock at the same time: two on East Side Access already in operation, and, later this year, one on the No. 7 extension and one on the 2nd Ave. Subway.
  
  The four TBMs may not seem particularly remarkable when compared to Shanghai, China, with a population approaching 30 million people ("they have 50 TBMs running at the same time," says Nagaraja) but it's unprecedented in the city's history.
  ...
  "The greatest challenge right now is that the construction industry is so saturated and so much work is going on not only in New York City, but all over the country and all over the world," says Nagaraja."The resources and the contractors [we need to get] have been a challenge, and the prices are much higher that we expected them to be."
  
  In addition to putting a strain on management and consulting firms in terms of the sheer amount of work, the number of projects running concurrently limits the skilled labor available to do the job."The good contractors always depend on the best skilled labor in the industry the A-teams," says Nagaraja.
  ...
  However, the scope of New York's new construction is such that all of MTA's projects, for example the 2nd Ave. Subway, East Side Access, and the No. 7 extension amount to a mere 15 % of all work in the city, according to Nagaraja.
  ...
  "New York City is 100% developed - both under ground and above ground," says Nagaraja.
  ...
  "We have been very transparent," says Nagaraja."And we need to be."
  
  "Once we have the launch box [for 2nd Ave. Subway] between 92nd and 96th Sts., once the TBM is lowered, the TBM will be doing work underneath," he explains.
  ...
  "We have not done these kinds of projects in a long time," says Nagaraja.

• 
  www.intlcenter.org/newright.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/15/2006    Last Visited: 3/7/2007  

  This year's dinner honored: Carolina Esquenazi-Shaio, Executive Director and President of Genesis Foundation, Inc.; Vincent Mai, Chairman and CEO of AEA Investors; and Mysore L. Nagaraja, President of MTA Capital Construction.

• 
  newyork.construction.com/news/newswatch/archive/2009/01 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/27/2009    Last Visited: 1/28/2009  

  Mysore Nagaraja
  ...
  "I hope the administration will reconsider it," said Mysore Nagaraja, the former head of the MTA's construction arm.
  
  If not, he warns, "The situation will be going back to the 1970s, which I don't think anybody wants to see." He believes that, without more funds, New Yorkers will see the return of widespread layoffs and service delays.

• 
  www.vskpbrts.com/BRTS_WEBSITE_UPDATE_INFO.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 10/6/2008  

  Mysore Nagaraja, President
  
  consultmysore@yahoo.com
  
  Transportation Consultant

• 
  www.namasthenri.com/nrioftheweek/nagaraja.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/6/2008    Last Visited: 1/6/2008  

  Mysore Nagaraja - Indian to head New York Projects
  
  Mysore Nagaraja is a licensed Professional Engineer in the States of New York and New Jersey.He received his Bachelor's degree in Engineering from University of Mysore in India and went on to get MS from Brigham Young University.He held several positions before joining New York City Transit.During his earlier assignments he managed large capital construction projects for M.W Kellogg Company.
  
  Nagaraja then joined New York City Transit as a project manager in August 1985, was promoted to assistant vice president in October 1986, to deputy vice president in June 1989, and to senior vice president and chief engineer in 1996.As Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer at MTA New York City Transit where he oversaw all aspects of the Capital Program including the reconstruction of the 1 & 9 subway line section within a year and four days of its destruction during the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.
  
  Nagaraja is now the president of the newly created Capital Construction Company by the Metropolitan Transit Authority.His new role will see him presiding over multi-billion dollar capital expansion projects in New York City.Then there are over 300-400 engineers and hundreds others in every position from supervisor to computer programmer to conductor and token booth clerk working under his supervision.
  
  For his hardships and dedication to the work Nagaraja received the Milton Pikarski Distinguished Leadership in Transportation Award from CUNY's City College in 1998.
  
  He is also the recipient of other awards such as the Environmental Action Coalition Green Star Award, June 2001 and the the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York 2000 Municipal Engineer of the Year.He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a professional member of the American Institute of Steel Construction.

• 
  enr.construction.com/news/transportation/archives/07110 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/8/2007    Last Visited: 12/9/2007  

  Mysore Nagaraja, president of the MTA's Capital Construction Co., says the sole bidder will be officially awarded the job in mid-November.The team has a 57-month construction schedule to bore a 21.5-ft-dia tunnel through mostly hard rock some 130 feet deep.Within 9 months from the start of construction, the MTA may add $450-million to the job for a station shell, adds Nagaraja.

• 
  newyork.construction.com/news/newswatch/archive/2009/01 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2009    Last Visited: 3/5/2009  

  Mysore Nagaraja
  
  "It's not a one-time fix. It's a fix forever," explains Mysore Nagaraja, who retired from the MTA last year and now works as a consultant..
  
  The Commission proposed to resolve the MTA's financial problems by creating two new sources of revenue: a Regional Mobility tax forcing employers to pay 33 cents for every $100 of payroll and cashless tolling on all East River and Harlem River Bridges.
  
  According to the Commision's report, the nominal Mobility tax will generate $1.5 billion per year, and the tolls will bring in an additional $600 million annually. Nagaraja believes this will be enough not only to keep all of the existing train lines in a state of good repair, but also to keep all of the MTA's expansion projects on schedule.
  
  As President of the Capital Construction Company, Nagaraja conceived and spearheaded projects like the Second Avenue Subway, East Side Access and the extension of the 7 line. So he is particularly happy to point out that one year of the Mobility Tax will raise enough revenue to complete the Second Avenue Subway, which currently needs $1.2 billion.
  
  Fares for subway riders will still increase under the plan, but the smaller and more predictable hikes will be set to fixed rates and schedules. Nagaraja says the MTA is currently mulling 23% increases, and only an 8% hike would be needed under the Ravitch Commissions proposals.
  ...
  Nagaraja admits that the report did not take Obama's potential stimulus package into account, and if passed, it could provide enough funding to rescue the MTA - until its next financial crisis.
  
  "My message is that this is a holistic approach, and it will improve the region forever. That's how [lawmakers] should look at it rather than how it will affect us tomorrow," Nagaraja says.

• 
  www.ny1news.com/ny1/NY1ToGo/Story/index.jsp?stid=5&aid= - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/22/2007    Last Visited: 10/30/2007  

  "If funding becomes available, certainly that option can be exercised and the station can be built as a part of the project," said Mysore Nagaraja of the MTA Capital Construction Company.

• 
  newyork.construction.com/news/newswatch/archive/2006/06 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/1/2006    Last Visited: 3/5/2009  

  Construction bids for two major Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway projects in Manhattan - the $3.8 billion first leg of the new Second Avenue line and the $2 billion extension of the No. 7 line - are set to go out by the end of the year, said Mysore Nagaraja, president of the agency's capital construction unit, at an industry briefing in New York.
  
  And Nagaraja said the winning contractor may well bear strong resemblance to the team that won a $428 million contract from the MTA over the summer for its other big Manhattan tunneling job, a 1-mi., four-tube dig that will connect a new station at Grand Central Terminal to Long Island Rail Road trains from Queens
  ...
  "You have these European contractors coming in and that's a big challenge to the local contractors," Nagaraja said.
  
  While the winning bid may well be a repeat of a local contractor and a European firm, Nagaraja said that the advanced level of work will raise the bar and attract local players.
  
  "That really will be the challenge to everybody to be more innovative," he added. "The local guys are now going to sharpen their pencils. It's going to be a healthy type of competition that will ultimately benefit the public."
  
  The No. 7 contract labeled C-26503, which Nagaraja would only say is coming out "later this year" in response to bidders' questions, would cover running tunnels, caverns, and station structures in the extension that will stretch the existing line from its terminus at 42nd Street in Times Square to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Manhattan's Far West Side.
  ...
  The project, which New York City is funding out of its own capital monies, also requires the city to finalize takings of several properties that would be used for stations and shafts along the route, a process that Nagaraja said is expected to be complete later this year.
  ...
  Both projects would require a 19-ft., 6-in. inside diameter, precast segmental binder tunnel, though Nagaraja said the agency might consider cast-in-place concrete.

• 
  newyork.construction.com/news/newswatch/archive/2009/01 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2009    Last Visited: 1/13/2009  

  Mysore Nagaraja
  
  "It's not a one-time fix. It's a fix forever," explains Mysore Nagaraja, who retired from the MTA last year and now works as a consultant..
  
  The Commission proposed to resolve the MTA's financial problems by creating two new sources of revenue: a Regional Mobility tax forcing employers to pay 33 cents for every $100 of payroll and cashless tolling on all East River and Harlem River Bridges.
  
  According to the Commision's report, the nominal Mobility tax will generate $1.5 billion per year, and the tolls will bring in an additional $600 million annually. Nagaraja believes this will be enough not only to keep all of the existing train lines in a state of good repair, but also to keep all of the MTA's expansion projects on schedule.
  
  As President of the Capital Construction Company, Nagaraja conceived and spearheaded projects like the Second Avenue Subway, East Side Access and the extension of the 7 line. So he is particularly happy to point out that one year of the Mobility Tax will raise enough revenue to complete the Second Avenue Subway, which currently needs $1.2 billion.
  
  Fares for subway riders will still increase under the plan, but the smaller and more predictable hikes will be set to fixed rates and schedules. Nagaraja says the MTA is currently mulling 23% increases, and only an 8% hike would be needed under the Ravitch Commissions proposals.
  ...
  Nagaraja admits that the report did not take Obama's potential stimulus package into account, and if passed, it could provide enough funding to rescue the MTA , until its next financial crisis.
  
  "My message is that this is a holistic approach, and it will improve the region forever. That's how [lawmakers] should look at it rather than how it will affect us tomorrow," Nagaraja says.
  
  Click here for more Newswatch >>

Page:  1 2 3 4 5