The LiRo Group Promotes Anthony Caggiano to Vice President
The LiRo Group is currently ranked as the 10th largest construction manager in the U.S.
Syosset, NY – The LiRo Group, a national project and construction management, architecture, engineering, and technology firm, has promoted Anthony Caggiano to Vice President. He will continue to lead the storage tank and remediation group within LiRo’s Environmental Division.
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Syosset, New York, LiRo operates regional offices in New York City and throughout the New York State, including in Hicksville, Mineola, Holbrook, Buffalo, and Rochester. The firm’s offices are also located in Jersey City, New Jersey; Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Stamford, Connecticut. The company employs more than 950 construction managers, engineers, architects, planners, BIM and GIS specialists, and other construction and support professionals nationwide. Engineering News-Record magazine ranks the company as the 10th largest construction manager in the United States.
Over the past 25 years, Mr. Caggiano has been instrumental in coordinating construction management and Design-Build services for 10 consecutive New York City Department of Design and Construction (NYC DDC) contracts, with a total contract value of $192 million. These projects have encompassed work at over 800 individual sites and involved designing, installing, and testing underground storage tank (UST) and aboveground storage tank (AST) systems for gasoline, diesel motor fuel, alcohol mix motor fuel, lube oils, and heating oils.
Since joining LiRo in 1994, Mr. Caggiano has provided services for numerous public agencies. In addition to the NYC DDC, these included New York City’s Fire Department, Department of Sanitation, Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Parks & Recreation, Police Department, Housing Authority, and Housing Preservation and Development, as well as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Nassau County Department of Public Works.
Mr. Caggiano holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from the City College of New York, and has multiple OSHA and underground storage tank certifications.
LiRo’s current and recent projects in New York City and in the greater New York area include the $10.2 billion East Side Access Long Island Rail Road expansion; the $30 million restoration of Pier A and the $12 million SeaGlass Carousel in Battery Park; the $60 million CUNY School of Architecture; $180 million worth of projects at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, including the National Synchrotron Light Source II; the $228.5 million High Line Park; the new $600 million Kosciuszko Bridge; the new $3.8 billion Tappan Zee Bridge; the $240 million Staten Island Siphon tunnel; the $2.4 billion Number 7 Subway Line Extension; the $220 million Governors Island, New York, Infrastructure Improvements; the $363 million Build It Back post-Hurricane Sandy housing recovery program; the $750 million housing recovery program for the New York State Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR); New York City’s $640 million post-Hurricane Sandy Rapid Repairs temporary shelter-in-place program; and the State of New Jersey’s $650 million housing Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, Elevation, and Mitigation (RREM) program.
The firm’s projects throughout the U.S. also include construction management services for the Los Angeles Unified School District’s 800-school construction and modernization program; the new Vista Mesa Middle School in Los Angeles; Centinela Valley Union High School District facilities planning and construction program management; the $90 million California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Health Care Facility Improvement Program; the $165 million Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness’ Shelter at Home program; and the $49 million Southern Connecticut State University Academic and Laboratory Building in New Haven, Connecticut.
