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Celebrating Preservation: Harlem River Houses Wins Lucy G. Moses Award
The restoration of Harlem River Houses, New York City's first purpose-built public housing development, was recently honored with a 2025 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award. RAND…
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New York City Local Law Building Compliance Calendar 2025
RAND Building News & Insights, January 2025 Staying on top of NYC’s building compliance deadlines is more important than ever. This year is a critical one…
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Bridging Disciplines: Eugene Gurevich, PE and RA, on Building Expertise and Careers at RAND
Eugene Gurevich, PE, AIA, LEED AP, serves as the Senior Structural Engineer and Construction Phase Director at RAND. Since joining the company in 2008, he has…
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RAND Highlights: Meet Our Newest Professional Engineer, Jefferson Zamora, PE
Congratulations to RAND Project Engineer Jefferson Zamora, PE, CEM, LEED Green Associate on earning his professional license! This outstanding achievement reflects his exceptional qualifications, expertise, and…
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Act Now: Critical Upcoming Deadlines for NYC Energy Compliance
NYC Benchmarking Deadline Alert: May 1, 2024 The 2024 Benchmarking Covered Buildings List is out. Owners of buildings on the list must submit their energy and…
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New Year, New NYC Inspection Requirements
As state and city regulations continually adapt to maintain the safety and integrity of our buildings, residents, and the public at large, staying up to date…
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Solving a Hot Water Problem at a Manhattan Condo [Habitat’s Problem Solved! Podcast]
Hot Water Without the Wait Waiting over 10 minutes for hot water in an apartment is not only frustrating, but a waste of time, water, and…
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Celebrating Giving Tuesday 2022
#GivingTuesday is here! Each year, on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States, RAND celebrates this day of global of giving and generosity and…
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New Local Laws and Important Upcoming NYC & Jersey City Compliance Deadlines
RAND Building News: Upcoming and New Local Law Compliance Deadlines Whether in response to a recent tragedy or looking ahead to take preventive precautions, laws and…
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It’s #NationalInternDay: RAND Summer Intern Spotlight
Happy National Intern Day to our fantastic summer interns! In recognition of their hard work and contributions to RAND, we are celebrating with a luncheon today…
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Energy Efficiency Reports Must Be Filed by Registered Design Professionals Beginning January 1, 2022
As part of NYC’s Greener, Greater Building Plan, Local Law 87/09 requires owners to have an energy audit conducted on their base-building systems; undertake energy-efficient maintenance…
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RAND Gives Back: #GivingTuesday 2021
As we kick off the holiday season, RAND prepares for #GivingTuesday by reflecting on all the hard work our RAND Gives Back volunteers have done throughout…
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Weathering the Storm: Emergency Preparedness & Storm Resiliency
After last week’s record-breaking rainfall caused flooding, power outages and widespread damage to buildings and infrastructure, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) released a…
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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,…
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ENR Names RAND’s James Vignola, PE Top 20 Under 40 Professional
RAND is proud to announce Structural Team Leader and Director of Technical Design Jimmy Vignola, PE has been named one of Engineering News-Record‘s 2021 Top 20…
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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…
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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.…
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RAND Takes on “The Wall” with Stephen Colbert
Last Friday night RAND was proud and excited to see one of our very own structural engineers Christine Hobson, PE appear on CBS’s Late Show with…
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Ask the Engineer: Backflow Prevention
One billion gallons of clean drinking water are distributed to the taps of nearly nine million New Yorkers each day. The city’s potable water supply, however,…
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Ask Our Experts: Oil-to-Gas Conversions
Even with the recent drop in oil prices, many co-op and condo boards are considering converting their building’s heating plant from an oil-burning system to one…
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Hard Core-Drilling Softens Costs
Rarely does a repair project go exactly as planned, which is why it’s critical to have a contingency plan. And sometimes the contingency plan itself needs…
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Steel Away
Today is SteelDay, an annual event sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction to educate the public on how the structural steel industry contributes to…
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From Intern to Principal
In October 1987, a 16-year-old boy who loved to solve problems was beginning his junior year at St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, NJ, studying…