Best for NYC: Best Practices
In today’s Best for NYC Challenge post, I want to discuss an effect of our company’s size. As I’ve mentioned before
Journal
Our work with old buildings has us studying a lot of different topics in addition to structural engineering – for example, architecture, history, and historic preservation – and we like sharing stories about what we’ve found.
Best for NYC: Other Companies
It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that these Best for NYC Challenge blog posts were written in advance
Best for NYC: Hearing It Firsthand
I mentioned Red Rabbit in a previous Best for NYC Challenge post. Why read my comments when you can hear
Best for NYC: Best Practices
It turns out that I’m not done discussing recycling as part of the Best for NYC Challenge. The furniture in our office
Best for NYC: Other Companies
For today’s Best for NYC Challenge post, I’d like to call out Ecobags. Like Red Rabbit, Ecobags does not directly intersect
Best for NYC: Our Core
I saved the best for last this week. I want to talk about what Old Structures does and how it
Best for NYC: Best Practices
In the context of the Best for NYC Challenge, I mentioned a few days ago the idea of incrementally improving
Best for NYC: Other Companies
Today’s Best for NYC Challenge post is about another B Corp: Impact Hub NYC. Impact Hub NYC is providing a
Best for NYC: Hello Out There
The Best for NYC Challenge has been getting some press: here and here and here.
Best for NYC: Best Practices
In my last post I talked about paper reduction and recycling. While I’m on that topic, a few words about
Best for NYC: Best Practices
Part of how the Best for NYC Challenge works is that we have to review how our company affects the environment.
Best for NYC: Other Companies
When I mentioned yesterday I’d be writing about the Best For NYC Challenge I forgot to mention an important point:
Best for NYC: Introduction
When I announced that OSE had become a Certified B Corp I promised that I’d be discussing the topic more “in the
Greenwich Village Landmark Judson Memorial Church
The scaffolding has just come down from Judson Memorial Church on the south side of Washington Square Park. The building
“Obsolete”
Because we live in an era of rapid technological change, we are used to (if not necessarily comfortable with) the
Something You Don’t See Every Day
That is a picture (click to enlarge) of a Guastavino vault floor supported on a Guastavino arch “girder.” Guastavino construction
X-Ray
For someone working with old buildings, this picture (click on it for a larger version) tells a sad story: a
Bow Bridge
The construction is done and getting press. The work went well from start to finish, even if it did take four
Fair Warning
This sign is meant to be taken seriously. I’ve been near a lot of unsafe buildings: some of them were
A Completed Project in the Press
Montrose Morris of the Brownstoner blog has provided a detailed history of 951 Prospect Place (also known as 172 Brooklyn
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