T纽约市学校建筑管理局（New York School Authority Authority）在接下来的三年中每年都有30亿美元的费用。过去，这一公告将获得设计和建筑行业的刻板印象：“是的……祝你好运。”但是今天，该行业正在引起眉毛。
沙龙·格林伯格（Sharon L. Greenberger）是纽约市SCA的新校长 |
在2006年7月1日开始的2007财年，SCA计划建立100所新学校，完成2,000多个资本改善项目，投资于所有五个行政区的科学实验室和礼堂项目。新利18备用网址资本计划是充分资金的，准备就绪。
纽约市学校建筑管理局的总裁兼首席执行官沙龙·格林伯格（Sharon L. Greenberger）说：“鉴于我们前面的工作的规模和范围，我们需要处于比赛的顶端。”过去，SCA甚至以排名前五名而闻名。
自1989年成立该机构以修复建造和改善纽约市1200个设施库存的过程中，SCA的声誉逐渐消失。
在过去十年中的大部分时间里，全市的承包商不想与纽约学校建筑管理局开展业务，这是出于多种原因：付款缓慢，古老的设计准则，封闭式的封闭方式没有快速处理，还有更多。
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Levinson says the agency has come a long way. "Do they have their house in order? As well as can be expected given the number of jobs they have to put out and the scope of those projects. It's a very difficult thing to do."
To improve the project close-out process, the SCA now uses total building commissioning techniques to assure quality and to close out projects more quickly. Communication tools have improved so the entire team can work closely together on speeding along project close-outs.
To improve the change order process, the SCA now allows project managers to approve changes under $25,000. Changes over $25,000 get negotiated quickly by a change order unit. If the contractor and the SCA can't agree on a price, the SCA issues a unilateral change order that the contractor can bill against until a price is agreed upon, which should not be more than 30 days after the change order is granted. Since the SCA has a contract that requires contractors to execute on change orders whether they be negotiated out or not, this new process helps keep work and money flowing together.
"One of our biggest complaints in the past was that our change order process took too long" said Chester Yee, vice president project management. "We think this new system addresses that."
The payment process has improved, Levinson says. Over the summer he had two emergency contracts that had to be complete before school went into session in September. He asked for a payment up front for mobilization, and payment every two weeks, and the SCA did it. "Not only did they do it for my job, they did it for all job," he says. "You can't find another agency that will do that."
行业来源来源Sharon Greenberger和Chester Yee对该机构的积极变化。
"I'd say the SCA is now the best-run agency in city and state of New York," says Louis J. Coletti, president and CEO of the Building Trades Employers' Association, a group that represents over 1,500 union contractors in the city. His group and the Building and Construction Trades Council were instrumental last year in creating a program labor agreement with the SCA that provides SCA with straight time plus 5 percent labor rates for second and third shift work. In return, all contractors on these projects — even non-union — must use union labor.
莱文森说：“镇上有一个新的警长。”“她是一个商人，她知道事情必须流动。我希望她在那里很长一段时间 - 至少在我退休之前。”
