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By Austin Regan This past year was a busy one for our industry. While most of us know not to complain about being busy or having too much work, even the most industrious can sometimes grow weary of the 6 ...
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By Johan Soltani Mayor de Blasio is working with City Planning to approve the Housing New York program. The program will build 200,000 units of new low income housing by expanding the existing Inclusionary Housing program, Zoning Resolution appendix F, ...
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By Bruno Caligara Many large building owners look to save money on energy cost and explore the use of motion sensor activated lighting for their exit stairwells. These fixtures are permitted but only when approved by the DOB. When the ...
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By Austin Regan When trying to determine if your building is fully Code compliant, one can no longer rely only on the Building Code. More and more we find that a thorough review of the Fire Code is required also. ...
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By Bruno Caligara Many of us typically don’t think twice about how they specify hot water Heaters on filings. Yet we should. The DOB’s Plumbing Division considers several cases where a hot water Heater may actually be considered to be ...
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By Brian Lafferty Once plans are approved and permitted, and work is completed on Fire Alarm systems, it’s inspection time. The project’s licensed electrician will need to schedule a FDNY inspection under the approved application. If all of the approve paperwork ...
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By Austin Regan Over the last year we have highlighted changes that occurred under the 2014 Code related to a variety of subjects. Some were significant, many were clarifications or corrections. Many changes did not have a direct impact on ...
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By Brian Redlein Continuing on the theme of Energy Code filings here at Manhattan New Buildings, your humble filing rep has been increasingly enlightened on why ASHRAE can be a superior compliance path than NYCECC, and while to some of ...
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By Johan Soltani The DOB has issued Building Bulletin 2015-017 to clarify Code requirements for lot line windows. Lot line windows, up to now, were basically permitted as long as they were not more than 10% of the façade of ...
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By Austin Regan With the advent of the 2014 Code, all renovations to prior Code buildings must fully follow the handicap regulations found in Chapter 11 of the current Code (AC 28-101.4.3). BC 1101.3 provides special provisions for prior Code ...
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By Brian Redlein With summer behind us and the end-of-year rush ahead of us it’s important to take a pause to look at one of the least understood parts of the filing process: the Determination request. Determinations, also known as recons ...
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By Andrew J. Pisani The DOB has issued a new Bulletin – BB 2015-025 – which clarifies the types of work subject to the 2014 Building Code for buildings whose existing fire alarm system was approved under the 2008 Code or ...
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