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Terra Cotta: Yesterday’s Cutting-Edge, Today’s Headache

How NYC’s Most Stunning Facades Are Its Most Challenging to Restore — Introduction If you walk through any neighborhood in...

Introduction A hairline fracture in a parapet wall, hardly visible and easily ignored. Cut to six months, that same fracture...

In April 2023, a parking garage on Ann Street collapsed, killing one person and injuring several others. The incident accelerated...

Steel makes New York possible. From the hidden angles inside a brownstone lintel to the reinforcing bars beneath concrete decks,...

New Yorkers have learned to live under steel and plywood. For years, the city’s sidewalks have been shrouded by a...

Just send a junior, it’s cheaper… It’s the line you’ve heard a hundred times and counting. On paper, the junior...

Few building features are as overlooked or predisposed to exposure as parapets. They’re the low walls capping roofs, the quiet...

Crisis on the Ledge. It didn’t make the news, but it could have. A couple of months back, a balcony...

A building’s envelope is its outer shell that combines materials and assemblies that separate interior space from the elements. In...

One Little-Known Regulation Shaking Up Building Maintenance Top to Bottom Not every major policy arrives with headlines. A local law...