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Mayor Bloomberg's office recently released the city's first report on Local Law 84/09, which requires New York City buildings with more than 50,000 square feet (or multiple buildings with a combined square footage of more than 100,000 square feet) to...

Just as every team needs a good utility player, so does every company—especially a startup. When Rand was getting off the ground in 1987, it had Chris Walsh. The company had just moved into a barren office in Chelsea, and...

After finishing my freshman year at the University of Virginia as a civil engineering major, I was excited to land a summer internship at Rand. But with no previous experience and only a year of college under my belt, I...

When I was in grammar school, the guest speakers on Career Day were typically police officers, fire fighters, and doctors. Although they were engaging, I wished I could have heard someone talk about buildings and design and construction, which I've...

Our busy staff is constantly running from project to project, so once in a while it's fun to run for a different reason. Last week a group of 34 Rand employees participated in the 36th annual J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge...

As you wend your way through the streets of New York, especially in Manhattan, you can’t avoid walking under or around construction sheds, those ubiquitous steel-and-plywood structures covering large tracts of the city’s sidewalks. Just how ubiquitous are they? According...

The amount of information an owner, agent, or engineer/architect may need to know about a building can be extensive. Fortunately a number of websites and online databases makes it much easier to find property data than it was just a few...

As the wife of Rand's president, I have been around building construction in New York City for more than 25 years and appreciate the energy and vitality of urban revitalization. So when our new neighbors decided to gut renovate the dilapidated...

Rainy days and Thursdays don't always get me down. After meeting a manufacturer's rep to review a recently completed roof replacement project at a 14-story building on West End Avenue yesterday morning, I paused to appreciate the gloomy allure around...