This unsolicited testimonial is from the co-president of one of the city’s premiere restoration contractors. Producing documents that inspire this kind of praise relies on consistently satisfying the “Four Cs” of excellence: drawings that are clear, correct, concise, and complete.

News that NYC will soon mandate periodic safety inspections of parking garages, similar to periodic facade (FISP/LL11) inspections, has raised alarms that “garages are the new facades,” alarms that are overblown for several key reasons.

SUPERSTRUCTURES joins the National Trust for Historic Preservation and local organizations across the country in celebrating Preservation Month in May. As architects and engineers specializing in exterior restoration, we maintain a broad focus, but subscribe to the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath: “First do no harm.”

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Parking structures are revenue centers, so all the more reason to inspect and maintain them—especially now that most will be subject to a new city inspection program. SUPERSTRUCTURES has years of experience identifying and remediating parking garage problems using our team of New York State-licensed engineers and we're ready to help garage owners fulfill this mandate.

Habitat Magazine’s recent article on applications of infrared (IR) imaging touts the technology as “a new way” to find moisture. That’s curious, because SUPERSTRUCTURES has been using IR cameras to investigate water infiltration and other issues in building envelopes for nearly two decades.

SUPERSTRUCTURES conducted an exterior restoration of one of Robertson’s New York masterpieces, the MacIntyre Building (1892) at 874 Broadway in the Ladies Mile Historic District. This restoration earned the firm a Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award. Happy birthday, Robert Henderson Robertson (not to be confused with Robbie Robertson of The Band).

In honor of Earth Week, we’ve made a temporary change to our logo. While efforts to make everything—including buildings—“greener” tend to dominate the environmental conversation (especially around Earth Day), the energy already embodied in existing buildings should be higher on the sustainability agenda. SUPERSTRUCTURES has long subscribed to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s position that “the greenest building is one already built.”

Steve Job’s story of helping his father build a fence around the family’s home illustrates the attention to hidden detail that had long influenced his design philosophy. Jobs later insisted that the interior workings of Apple products—the circuit boards unseen by most—must be equally elegant. At SUPERSTRUCTURES, we take a page from Apple’s approach. Our construction documents—drawings and specifications—are as elegant as the restoration projects they define.

We restore the exteriors of the buildings that are the lifeblood of New York City: government buildings, hospitals, transit hubs, universities, museums, and public schools. We work on New York City’s most prominent buildings—those that make the city run as well as those that turn heads. And we do more of it than anyone else.