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...
Read moreRAND 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...
Read moreHow 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...
Read moreEmergency 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...
Read moreMy 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...
Read moreKeys 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...
Read moreAn 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...
Read moreRAND 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.
Read more#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...
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