Crain’s Best Places to Work: RAND Scores a 10
Our employees have spoken! RAND has been named a Best Place to Work in New York City for the tenth time. RAND is proud to announce that it has been included on the list of “100 Best Places to Work…
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DOB Issues Advice to New Yorkers After Historic Citywide Flooding
Dangerous conditions may have been created in buildings affected by yesterday’s record-breaking rainfall and unprecedented flooding from Hurricane Ida. The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) has released a list of advisories that building owners and property managers should…
Celebrating RAND Interns, Current and Former, on National Intern Day
RAND’s summer internship program returned to the office this year, and in recognition of National Intern Day, held on the last Thursday of July each year, we’re treating our interns to lunch to celebrate their hard work and contributions to…
Envisioning an Urban Farm at IKEA Paramus
Our transportation and distribution systems are continuing to evolve, and while the future is still uncertain, we are certainly recognizing the consequences of our model of growth at all costs in the present, categorized by rolling major disruptions and perpetual…
RAND’s First Annual RAND Strong Virtual Run Raises $6,000 For Charities
Since 2006, our RAND on the Run team has participated in a 5K charity run each year (including the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge and NYCRuns’ Building Brooklyn 5K). While the pandemic cancelled our annual run for the first time in…
RAND Gives Back: Virtual Field Day, Valentines for Seniors, and Project Linus
Our RAND Gives Back volunteers have been busy the last couple of months. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, RAND has remained committed to our goal of volunteering and donating 1% of our gross billing to charitable organizations that are important to our…
DOB Denying Permits to Buildings with Excessive Violations and Arrears
In the last couple of years, New York City has passed two new local laws restricting the issuance of new permits, and in some cases revoking active permits, to properties with excessive violations and to those who owe the City…
Coming This April: The Interim Certificate of Occupancy
A new class of Certificate of Occupancy, which removes red tape from the building occupation process for commercial and residential property owners, developers, and tenants, is coming to New York City starting April 2021. In December 2020, the New York…
RAND and REW’s 2020 Rising Stars
RAND is proud to recognize Project Architects Brett Rieger, AIA and Michael Langwell, RA as RAND’s and Real Estate Weekly‘s Rising Stars of 2020. Brett Rieger, AIA Project Architect Brett Rieger, AIA is Project Architect on RAND Engineering & Architecture,…
New $2,000 Civil Penalty for Failure to Correct SWARMP Conditions
Owners of buildings who fail to correct Safe With a Repair and Maintenance Program (SWARMP) conditions noted in their 8th Cycle Facade Inspection Safety Program (FISP) Report will now face a Failure to Correct SWARMP civil penalty of $2,000 upon…
Holiday Giving in 2020
Over the past year, RAND has been working on new initiatives and looking for different ways to create a more meaningful and positive impact on our community and help those who are enduring hardship at this time. In lieu of…
RAND Gives Back: #GivingTuesday 2020
Every year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, RAND honors #GivingTuesday, the global day of giving. Started by New York’s 92 Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation in 2012, #GivingTuesday encourages everyone to take collective action to improve their communities, give…
RAND COVID-19 Update: Ongoing Projects and Safety
Continued Commitment to Safety and Our Clients Dear Clients and Friends, As a construction industry Architectural/Engineering firm involved in projects affecting building infrastructure and public safety, RAND is designated as an essential business per Governor Cuomo’s “New York State on…
COVID-19 and Continuity of Services at RAND
Like all of you, RAND is closely monitoring the latest news regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Because the health and well-being of our employees, clients, and community-at-large are of utmost importance to us, we are continually modifying our policies and procedures…
9th Cycle FISP – New Rule Issued for Facade Inspections
It’s official. Just in time for the start of the City’s 9th Cycle Facade Inspection Safety Program (FISP) on February 21, 2020, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) has published a new amended rule aimed at increasing safety…
#GivingTuesday Spotlight: Winter Wishes
For the last couple of years, RAND has had the privilege of working with the staff of P256Q at PS43, an elementary and middle school consisting of school children from Kindergarten through the 8th grade, in Far Rockaway, Queens, to…
RAND Structural Engineer and SEAoNY President Hosts Tianjin Delegation of Civil Engineers
On November 6th, I hosted a delegation of Chinese civil engineers at RAND’s office in Chelsea, Manhattan. The delegation, which included ten senior engineers from the Tianjin Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute, a private engineering company in China, had…
How We Designed Our Award-Winning Cansculpture: Don’t Let Hunger DRAG ON
2019 marks my 6th consecutive year as Co-Captain of our RAND Canstruction Team, and this year, we created “Don’t Let Hunger Drag On,” a behemoth fire-breathing dragon breaking through a wall for our sculpture at the 27th annual Canstruction New…
Emergency Preparedness: Building a Better Backup Generator
Liberty House Condominium, a 239-unit, 27-story tower over looking the Hudson River escaped Hurricane Sandy relatively unscathed. The building didn’t lose power like the rest of downtown Manhattan (Battery Park City happens to be on the Brooklyn power grid), and…
My RAND Summer Internship: A Hands-On Experience
Going into a summer internship after completing only my sophomore year of college, it was hard to know what to expect from an internship at RAND. On my very first day, I was already out and about going on site…
Keys to a Successful Capital Improvement Program
We were the project engineer/architect for a large capital improvement project at Nordeck Apartments, a six-building, 343-unit complex near the Atlantic Ocean in Arverne, Queens, that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy. It was a $50 million project with a very wide-ranging scope of work – replacing bricks, windows, parapets, and roofs, an electrical upgrade, new...
An Engineer’s Path to Building the Rooftop Farm
As a LEED-accredited professional engineer and buildings expert working with RAND Engineering & Architecture, DPC in New York, I have the ability to shape urban life in a way most people don’t. I spend much of my energy maintaining and…
RAND Wins Ortner Preservation Award for Park Slope Jewish Center Project
RAND is proud to announce our exterior and roof repair project at Park Slope Jewish Center in Park Slope Historic District has won a 2018 Evelyn and Everett Ortner Park Slope Preservation Award. The award is given out by the Park Slope Civic Council for restoration projects and interventions that preserve and enhance Park Slope's historic character.
#GivingTuesday Spotlight: The Floating Hospital
After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, comes #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving. Spearheaded by New York’s 92 Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, #GivingTuesday encourages global charities, families, businesses, community centers, students, and others to take collective action to improve…