Category: Education

New York City’s Facade Inspection Safety Program (FISP) 9th Cycle filing window begins next week on February 21  and the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) has issued a new amended rule aimed at increasing safety and holding a small number...

  New York City Bar Association (City Bar) is offering 2-credit CLE course "Hot Topics in Cooperatives & Condominiums: Cases & Marketplace Developments in the last 6 Months" on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 from 6:00PM to 8:00PM at its headquarters...

As part of our RAND Gives Back initiative of charitable giving, RAND partners with Mentoring USA's Corporate Employee Mentoring Program to mentor students from City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology. Twice a month, RAND's volunteer mentors, led by RAND President...

To help residential buildings reduce energy costs, New York City has launched a free energy efficiency training program for maintenance staff and property managers of small to mid-sized multifamily buildings. The NYC Building Operator Training program aims to extend the...

RAND’s still got it. For the 6th time, RAND Engineering & Architecture, DPC has been recognized as one of Crain’s Best Places to Work in New York City. Ranked number 58 this year, RAND was one of only two engineering...

In September, the NYC Department of Buildings rolled out a new electronic filing system called DOB NOW, which requires building owners and representatives to register with the DOB's eFiling portal and to file their Facade Inspection Safety Program (Local Law 11/98) reports online....

One of the many things I love about RAND is how it offers ongoing education for its employees, from lunch-and-learn seminars to topical movie viewings to company-sponsored field trips. A group of my RAND colleagues and I recently took advantage...

Next week RAND will participate in a symposium addressing key topics important to cooperatives and condominiums. RAND's Principal and Vice President Peter E. Varsalona, PE, will discuss the challenges and considerations of oil-to-gas conversions, a major capital improvement project that...

Bill Nye the Science Guy recently said, “There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.” He would have loved my summer internship at RAND. Every...