Tag Archive: RAND

Like all of you, RAND is closely monitoring the latest news regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Because the health and well-being of our employees, clients, and community-at-large are of utmost importance to us, we are continually modifying our policies and procedures...

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...

It's official. Just in time for the start of the City's 9th Cycle Facade Inspection Safety Program (FISP) on February 21, 2020, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) has published a new amended rule aimed at increasing safety...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...