TETRA TECH LANDS AOL TIME WARNER JOB.Byline: Jennifer Parsons Staff Writer PASADENA - Tetra Tech Inc. landed a $15 million deal Tuesday to provide the hard wiring for the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. headquarters of AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner, soon to become the world's leading media conglomerate. The Time Warner Center The Time Warner Center is a mixed-use skyscraper developed by The Related Companies in New York City. Its design, by David Childs and Mustafa Kemal Abadan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, consists of two 229 m (750 ft) towers bridged by a multi-story atrium containing upscale retail project will be Tetra Tech's largest indoor communications project ever. ``We feel good about this very prestigious project,'' said Li-San Hwang, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of Pasadena-based Tetra Tech. ``This is a very modern and successful company and we've worked with Time Warner before, providing technology, so they know our capabilities.'' The anticipated infrastructure includes indoor wireless communications, audio and video communication systems, integrated security and power management. The 2.7 million-square-foot Time Warner Center will house AOL Time Warner Inc.'s new corporate headquarters including the Jazz Center, high-end condominiums, CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , a Mandarin Five-Star hotel and retail businesses. The merger gained regulatory approval last week and awaits a perfunctory review by the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. to finalize the deal. Business features will include upgraded broadcast and reception capabilities for CNN via satellite, fiber optic and cable communications networks, wireless phone systems and possibly 3D-holographic display maps for visitors in the center. Design of the infrastructure began a month ago and construction, supervised by Tetra Tech's New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of branch, will be completed by 2002. Tetra Tech provides resource management, infrastructure and telecommunications support services through a network of more than 150 offices throughout the United States, in Canada and Taiwan. Hwang said he thinks with the completion of this project, people will realize Tetra Tech is in the forefront of indoor communications. ``Completing this project puts us at a pretty good advantage,'' he said. ``People will recognize we have the capability to do this kind of thing.'' |
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