This is how you build skyscrapers over moving trains without disrupting traffic

How do you build a 5.4-million-square-foot commercial development over what is currently nearly a dozen open air railroad tracks?

That’s what Brookfield Properties had to figure out for their Manhattan West mega-project in New York City.

Situated on a five-acre site on Manhattan’s West Side, the builders will execute the construction without disrupting traffic. They explain how they will accomplish that feat in this video.

As we told our American readers last week, ground just broke on the $4.5 billion project that’s expected to be ready to receive tenants by 2016.