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The way your building uses energy can help its bottom line—or hurt it through inefficient operations. Fortunately there's a way for multifamily buildings to reduce energy waste and receive funding for long-term energy savings. The Multifamily Energy Performance Portfolio offered...

In my more than 30-year career as a bricklayer, preservationist, and project manager, I've been fortunate to have worked on many noteworthy buildings in New York City. None, however, has had more significance to me than the Algonquin Hotel, a...

The Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Northwest Historic District in Upper Manhattan has some beautiful buildings with amazing stonework, but also sadly a lot of decay. Fortunately one cooperative board in the neighborhood has been working hard to maintain its building's architectural integrity...

In October Con Edison listed 12 areas in Manhattan and the Bronx where buildings may be eligible to connect to a Con Ed main gas line at no additional cost when converting from oil to firm (all) gas. For buildings...

Some projects have the dual benefit of looking good and doing good at the same time. We recently completed a project that transformed a formerly bleak, unused space into a new medical clinic that now brightens the prospects of its...

Last year owners of New York City properties 50,000 square feet or more began the annual process of submitting their buildings’ fuel, electric, gas, and water usage under the city new benchmarking law, Local Law 84/09. In 2013, the next...

Halloween is only a couple of days away, but some New York City property owners and managers are more spooked by February 21. That's the day they face the SWARMP Thing. As our latest ad (right) in the November issue...

On a crisp, clear night with a gorgeous view of the Empire State Building as a backdrop, RAND Engineering & Architecture, PC celebrated its 25th anniversary at the Rare Rooftop Bar in the Hilton Fashion District Hotel in Chelsea last Thursday. It was a wonderful evening spent with staff, clients, and friends looking back at how far RAND has come and gazing ahead at how far we still hope to go.

On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, the largest one-day market crash in history at the time. The Dow lost 22.6% of its value that day, equal to approximately $500 billion, rattling the world's economy...