Tag Archive: Facades

The lead time for a typical 9th Cycle Facade Inspection Safety Program (FISP) inspection and filing process now ranges from 3 to 5 months. Since the deadline to file an inspection report for buildings with block numbers ending in 1,...

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...

Attention Building Owners and Managers: The New York City Department of Buildings is no longer accepting hard copies of Facade Inspection Safety Program (Local Law 11/98) reports. All FISP reports must be submitted electronically through the DOB NOW online portal....

Over the years, various boards of directors at Parkside Assocation, located at 549 41st Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, resolved to replace the leaky roof of the 89-year-old building. But best intentions aside, they managed only temporary fixes and patchwork repairs....

Most New York City property owners and managers know that NYC Local Law 11/98, now called the Facade Inspection Safety Program (FISP), requires an inspection of a building's facades every five years. The many aspects of the program, however, are...

Short-term fixes rarely bring long-term relief, especially when it comes to building maintenance. Case in point: the Kensington House, a 195-unit co-op at 200 West 20th Street in Manhattan, which had been doing patchwork repairs for years in a futile...

Water is a formidable foe, and keeping it from infiltrating a building is a constant battle, as one New Jersey cooperative knows all too well. RAND recently completed a major exterior repair program at Northbridge Park, a 14-story residential co-op...

As an architectural student in Istanbul and Europe, I had the opportunity to study some inspiring buildings. I was reminded of those buildings when I was assigned as the project manager of an exterior repair program RAND recently completed at...

Every architect remembers their first scaffold drop. I’ll remember mine for years to come. As luck would have it, my first voyage was not a warm-up on, say, a 10- or 15-story building, where I could get accustomed to carefully...