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>> My name is Patrick Ascu.

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I'm currently a program manager for the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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I'm also an adjunct professor over at NYU,
and I basically work at the Port Authority

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in the capacity of doing the management for the
new World Trade Center design and construction.

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It's a huge site with a number of different
construction projects going on, namely with,

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probably everybody's familiar
with is the Freedom Tower,

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most commonly known, or Tower One.

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The tallest building in the
country at this point.

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So that is essentially being built and finished
off along with a number of other towers

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on the site, Towers Three, Four,
Five, and there's, of course,

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the major oculus is what we call,
or the hub transportation station.

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So it's a major site with major infrastructure
going on, and my role is essentially

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to manage the design and construction
[inaudible] Port, the management and design

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and construction and in that capacity as a,
you know, a civil engineer as my background.

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Well, certainly, my specific role is logistics
manager for the eastern portion of the site.

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So I deal with a lot of stakeholders

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to develop the Silvertstein New
York City Transit Authority,

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the Department of Transportation,
all the people that have a stake

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in the building and the infrastructure.

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I coordinate with them.

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I coordinate the design and construction
and to basically implement the components

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of the project into the surrounding
infrastructure, say,

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the New York City Transit Authority,
which we have a train system

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that runs right through the site.

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DOT, which there are highways and roadways.

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Again, Silverstein is the developer
that is building the towers.

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So I have to sort of incorporate
the Port Authority's primary role,

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which is to build a transportation
hub into their infrastructure,

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which is their development
of their office buildings.

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Along with that, I manage the overall
construction logistics in and around the site

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in terms of making sure cranes and all
these sophisticated construction, I guess,

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equipment gets in and out the site, manage
all the contractors in terms of how they get

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into the site and how they
build their infrastructure

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with competing other infrastructure
going on in the site.

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So it's like a logistical maze.

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Typically, I'm dealing with competing
interests in terms of contractors,

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in terms of stakeholders in trying to sort
of facilitate making sure the interest

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of the Port Authority and the buildings
get built while dealing with all the other,

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you know, competing stakeholders.