Dive Brief:

• Colleges and universities in New York City have not gone without construction during the economic downturn, but indications are that there is a lot more coming in the next five years that they have undertaken in the recent past.
• The schools put about $4.5 billion into construction over the past five years, and that is expected to more than double in the next five, according to numbers collected by the New York Building Congress, a construction industry trade organization.
• In addition to projects at schools in Manhattan and the Bronx, Cornell University — based upstate in Ithaca, N.Y. — is set to build a Tech Campus in the city, on Roosevelt Island in the East River.

Dive Insight:

Additions and renovations by institutions of higher education in New York City are no small component of the construction scene. As seen by the numbers, City University of New York, Fordham, University, New York University and Columbia University make major impacts when they build.