Beacon Consulting Group was a Bronze Sponsor for this year's Women in Construction (WIC) Conference held in in Washington D.C. on October 18, 2019. This year, Myat Cyn represented Beacon at the event. Myat is a project engineer and surety consultant based in Beacon's NYC office, but also travels to consult on assignments at construction sites across the U.S.
Billionaire Elon Musk founded The Boring Company (TBC) in December of 2016 with the goal of greatly reducing the cost of building tunnels and tunnel-based transportation systems. Part of his inspiration for entering into the business was his frustration with gridlock traffic in Los Angeles and the general limitations of the world's current "2-dimensional, road-based" transportation networks. The company's focus has been on developing tunneling methods and designs with which will speed up the tunnel construction process while greatly reducing costs.
The Chuo Shinkansen project is a magnetic levitation ("maglev") railway project currently underway in Japan, being built by the Central Japan Railway Company. While Japan is famous for its high-speed bullet trains (which have been in operation since 1964), this new maglev train line will reportedly cut rail travel time between Tokyo and Nagoya by 50% when completed in 2027. With trains traveling faster than 265 mph, this will decrease the time for the 178-mile trip to just 40 minutes.
Beacon's team can help clients to determine if a project plan is sound or if there are any "early warning signs" that a project may be headed for trouble because of an insufficient budget, lack of a clear plan, or a wide variety of other factors. This article focuses on some of the ways we do this...
John Richmond joined Beacon in September of 2016 and has since become an integral part of our Construction Consulting team. John helps to provide a wide range of services to Beacon's clients...
Just for fun, in celebration of Halloween, we compiled accounts of construction sites & other places across the U.S. which are (or were) rumored to be haunted or cursed.
John Yeung has been a key member of Beacon's team since 2006. In January of 2017, John was appointed to the position of Vice President and has managed Beacon's New York City office since that time. John's background includes more than 20 years of construction consulting experience...
Beacon’s Dan Newcombe has been providing construction consulting services for one of the largest skyscraper projects underway in New York City—One Vanderbilt Place, a 67-floor, supertall skyscraper being built at the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in midtown Manhattan...
As part of a larger Surety Consulting assignment involving multiple project sites across the U.S., Beacon Consulting Group is providing Construction Management Oversight services for a project underway at a U.S. Army research facility located in Massachusetts.
Beacon Consulting Group, Inc. is once again a sponsor of the Women in Construction Conference which will be taking place on Friday October 18th in Washington, D.C. (Marriott Marquis, 901 Massachusetts Ave NW). The conference's organizer, Women in Construction, Inc., is the Mid-Atlantic region’s premiere forum for professional development and networking in the construction industry. Beacon Project Engineer Myat Cyn will be attending the event...