Change orders usually mean additional expense and a delayed project completion date. But occasionally, they’re a pleasant surprise—when they signify a reduction in construction cost. Our restoration of Columbia University’s Fayerweather Hall is a recent example.

Do you have the particular set of skills we’re looking for? They include the ability to craft construction documents (drawings and specifications) that are correct, complete, clear, concise, and consistent.

Clever of the British to give a posh name to a common problem: Regent Street Disease. But there’s no mask requirement in London’s West End—this disease affects buildings, not people. London’s prestigious Regent Street lends its name to a form of facade deterioration common to the neighborhood’s proliferation of 19th-century buildings.

From Harlem to Hell’s Kitchen and Jersey City to JFK airport, SUPERSTRUCTURES has restored buildings across the greater New York region. Each pin on this map represents one of our projects in progress and the renewal of part of the backbone of the city. Each project is an opportunity to advance our practice of the art and science of restoration.

While conducting a test using a handheld, high-pressure spray nozzle to investigate water infiltration at a prominent condominium building in the South Street Seaport Historic District, we made our own mini rainbow! Non-destructive testing techniques like this (which we call leakage mapping) give us valuable information.

Year after year, SUPERSTRUCTURES successfully completes more exterior restoration projects than any other firm in the New York region. Each pin on this map represents one of our projects in progress. More importantly, each pin represents the renewal of part of the backbone of the city, as well as an opportunity to advance our practice of the art and science of restoration.

It’s back-to-school time for New York City students. Students bound for one of the many school buildings designed by Charles B. J. Snyder may overlook the details that make them artifacts of a time when schools were “temples” of learning. SUPERSTRUCTURES has had the honor of working on various Snyder structures.

A recent post by the Manhattan Contrarian argues for a pragmatic reexamination of New York’s mandates for a sustainable energy transition. It questions some of the aggressive provisions of NYC Local Law 97 aimed at “greening” NYC’s building stock—and it makes some valid points. SUPERSTRUCTURES is attempting to remain above the fray, subscribing to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s position that “the most green building is one already built.”

"The truth is out there." Familiar from The X Files, this adage could be added to the inspiration that guides SUPERSTRUCTURES’ work. The currency of our practice is information, so we continually seek it in the investigation phase of each project.

“Why was I not made of stone like thee?” As Notre Dame’s famous gargoyles (and grotesques) are repaired—or recarved—and reinstalled as part of the landmark’s restoration, we’re reminded of this lament by Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) from the 1939 film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.