This Wall Street Journal article discusses the deferred maintenance dilemma affecting many U.S. colleges. At SUPERSTRUCTURES, we’re assisting NYC colleges prioritize and judiciously deploy funds for building envelope projects. We’re working with Columbia, NYU, Fordham, and each of the 24 campuses of the City University of New York.

Alternative to facade inspection by drone - awaiting approval from NYC DOB and ASPCA. ASTM standard to follow.

Based on our extensive exterior restoration experience with the NYC School Construction Authority (SCA), SUPERSTRUCTURES was invited to participate at an AIA NY program titled “Rehabilitating New York’s Historic Schools.”

The Department of Buildings recently published a link updating the public on metrics concerning Facade Inspection Safety Report results and sidewalk shed projects throughout New York City.

When situations require, SUPERSTRUCTURES uses exploratory probes to further our understanding of a building or structure, and the problems or conditions which may exist within. Our method of deploying probes, with the aid of our NDT&E equipment, minimizes their cost and impact.

SUPERSTRUCTURES was awarded a GSA Design Excellence Award - Citation in Preservation (2016) for the commissioning services performed on the restoration of the Conrad B. Duberstein U.S. Bankruptcy Courthouse. This is the second award the firm has won for this project, the first being a Lucy G. Moses Preservation Project Award (2014) from the New York Landmarks Conservancy. Built in 1892 and 1933, the Conrad B. Duberstein U.S. Bankruptcy Courthouse in downtown Brooklyn is a National Historic Landmark. More than a half-million square feet, this Romanesque Revival-style building occupies an entire city block.

SUPERSTRUCTURES is proud to have contributed to an award winning project completed in Manhattan’s Battery Park. On March 16, the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects announced winners of its 2017 Design Awards, with the “Battery Perimeter, Bikeway, Oval and Woodland” project receiving one of five Honor Awards. As sub-consultant to landscape architect Quennell Rothschild & Partners, SUPERSTRUCTURES provided conservation and restoration services for 11 monuments being relocated as part of the Battery Park re-design.

In September 2016, the DOB launched its DOB NOW: Safety web portal. With DOB NOW, all FISP (Façade Inspection Safety Program) actions occur on-line. Building Owners (and Owner’s Representatives) and their inspecting professionals (QEWI’s) conduct all façade-related interactions with each other, and with the DOB, on DOB NOW. DOB NOW also provides the DOB an efficient method of tracking FISP/LL11- related data, including details of the FISP Reports as well as statistical information on QEWI’s, building Owners and their buildings.

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People usually think of FISP/Local Law 11 as mandating vigilance against bricks or terra cotta falling to the sidewalk from aging older buildings. Surprise! Many buildings as "young" as five years are also subject to the requirements of FISP. The Department of Buildings does not send birthday cards, so it falls to the building owner to check the calendar and file a timely FISP Critical Examination Report with the Department of Buildings (DOB).