RAND Building News & Insights With 2026 underway, now’s a good time to get ahead of NYC’s building compliance deadlines. Our 2026 NYC Building Compliance Calendar highlights what’s coming up first (PIPS Cycle 1C opened January 1 and FISP Cycle…
Here’s When You Must File in NYC’s Cycle 10 (2025–2029) If your building is six stories or taller and was newly constructed, it may now be required to have its facade inspected and a Facade Inspection Safety Program (FISP) report…
As we head into the final quarter of 2025, several key Local Law deadlines are fast approaching — and some have shifted since the start of the year. New York City has clarified how extensions for Local Law 97 affect related reporting under LL88 and LL84, and enforcement is now in effect for newer requirements like lead paint inspections, annual parapet reports, and the PIPS annual checklist for parking structures.
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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 for compliance, with major Local Law 97 and 88 deadlines driving significant changes in…
The Brooklyn cooperative at 75 Henry Street, a 32-story, 356-unit building sits atop of a three-level underground garage comprised of 546 parking spaces. Its garage had compromised concrete which led to leaks and falling pieces of concrete and dust. As…
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.
The four-story Park Slope Historic District Romanesque Revival townhouse had a checkered past and a current leakage problem. 153 Lincoln Place was built in 1887 for Frank Babbott, a jute merchant, and his wife Lydia, daughter of Standard Oil magnate Charles…
In Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza stand two imposing figures, Victory and Family, 24-foot-tall limestone sculptures flanking a memorial honoring the Brooklynites who lost their lives during the Second World War. Dedicated in 1951, the memorial is one of five WWII tributes…
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…
Last Sunday a group of my Rand coworkers and I met at Church Avenue in Brooklyn for a walking tour of the Prospect Park South Historic District. It was the second walking tour that we’ve done as a group (the…