At-Risk Homes Now Face FEMA's New Flood Maps

With the senate's recent passage of a $50.5-billion Superstorm Sandy aid bill, some hard-hit homeowners in New York and New Jersey now face a new issue as the Federal Emergency Management Agency recently released new flood elevation map data for the city that details how rebuilding should occur. The new maps double the number of NYC properties lying in flood zones, and FEMA advises homeowners to build higher.

然而，在新闻时间，纽约市长Mike Bloomberg签署了暂停高度和其他限制的紧急订单，以便建筑物可以满足新的洪水高程标准。该市还采用了一个新规则来增加所需的最低防洪高程，以便建立大幅损坏的建筑物和其他新建建筑以承受更大的洪水风险。

The move should help New Yorkers limit the cost of future federal flood insurance premiums by better protecting properties in flood-prone areas from risk and damage, the mayor says.

"We are beginning the process of updating our building code and zoning regulations so that new construction meets standards that reflect the best available data about flood and climate risks," Bloomberg said in a Jan. 31 statement announcing the new measures.

"Homeowners need to be able to rebuild to sound flood protection standards without facing conflicts with current zoning regulations," Amanda M. Burden, city planning commissioner, said in the same statement.

该市表示，它将与联邦政府和其他人合作，制定可能协助财产所有者遵守新推荐海拔的计划。

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NYC's Rapid Repairs Program Makes Strides

纽约市长Michael Bloomberg公告，纽约市迅速维修计划完成了超过10,000名住宅的工作。

Under the program so far, the city says it has completed 6,072 buildings and 10,492 residential units. It says work has begun in 7,878 buildings, with 4,303 buildings remaining.

与FEMA合作的自由城市计划旨在帮助居民迅速进行紧急维修。

在该倡议下，该市将承包商团队送到永久或暂时恢复热水，电力和热水，并使该市表示，使其他“有限”的维修保护房屋免受进一步重大损害。

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美国交易增长攀登，但N.Y.市场平坦

全国范围内的行业合并和收购活动去年在全国范围内增长了14％至约200次交易，但在Triamtate地区相对平坦，Mick Morrissey表示，A / E / C管理咨询公司Morrissey Goodale，牛顿，牛顿。即便如此，很多买家继续将三塔斯地区视为花费M＆1美元的好地方。

“纽约往往是一个更加艰难的地方[外部公司]进入。所以说，莫里西说，它往往是”对于交易的最受欢迎的国家之一。“那是因为它是一个重要的经济 - 一个世界上的世界，这是一个非常有吸引力的地方，因为它有很多工作”与许多其他地区相比，他说。鉴于国家严格的许可和实践法律，他补充说，局外人也更容易且更快地进入市场。新泽西州是另一个最受欢迎的市场，主要是因为它靠近纽约。

“没有人在明尼苏达州德卢斯做了很多交易，所以你不想在那里度过你的收购美元，”莫里西斯说。“没有人在密西西比州买企业，但它旁边的国家，路易斯安那州，是国家外面的最热门公司之一，因为他们想要进入石油行动。”

去年，大约26家公司主要在建筑和工程领域以及纽约的环境咨询，土地测量和景观建筑实践，而Morrissey Goodale的数据如2011年和2010年的25岁。2012年，新泽西州和康涅狄格州的三个交易。

M&A activity in the region last year included Woburn, Mass.-based GEI Consultants's purchase of Garden City, N.Y.-based EEA, a 14-person environmental and ecological consultancy; Lansing, Mich.-based Capital Consultants Architecture and Engineering's merger with Canton, N.Y.-based Burley-Guminiak & Associates; San Diego-based Kleinfelder's acquisition of Princeton, N.J.-based Omni Environmental; and Chicago-based Alfred Benesch & Co.'s merger with Glastonbury, Conn.-based Purcell Associates.

Those types of deals, in which a buyer in one state scoops up market share in another, tended to be the growth strategy of industry firms prior to the recession. However, "since the recession and even more so in 2011 and 2012, closer to half the deals done in our industry have been within states," he says.

去年该地区的内部交易包括北斯托宁顿，康涅狄格州的A / Z公司的合并与哈特福德的PMKArchitecture +室内设计;Sparta，N.J.为基于CP工程师的资产购买了斯巴达的工程公司Cerenzio＆Panaro;和Patchogue，N.Y.基于BBS架构师和工程师的BOHEMIA，N.Y.的Ward Associates。

莫里西说，当客户要么不及时地支付时，遭到衰退期间，资产负债表在经济衰退期间造成的殴打。“我们在2011年和2012年看到的是公司[经济困难]开始与他们所认识的公司谈话，他们所知道的是在同一条船上，”所以两个综合的力量。

One trend prior to 2011 was that large, publicly traded firms initiated about one-third of the U.S. deals, Morrissey says. But in 2011 and 2012 only about one-fifth of such firms did so "because a lot of them turned their sights on overseas markets where they saw relatively greater opportunities."