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By Renee Sosnowski AEU – the DOB’s Administrative Enforcement Unit – has made some changes to its service and service level agreements, which went into effect on December 5, 2016. AEU will only process same day service Certificates of Correction ...
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By Penny Laughlin The Parks Department has implemented new procedure for the required plan review needed for DOB New Building and Major Alteration filings. This new process for tree work permits and plan will streamline a process that has typically ...
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By Brian Lafferty The DOB has developed a Project Guidelines series to provide the trade with guidance on general project requirements. The Project Guidelines contain general operational, administrative, and technical requirements related to construction project type. The Project Guidelines will ...
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By Austin Regan Back in the days when I was young and had hair, I remember having lunch with a long time successful contractor who explained to me that he never submitted Change Order requests because “It wasn’t worth the ...
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By Andrew J. Pisani The City Council recently voted unanimously to expand the reach of LL84 and LL88. LL84 covers annual Benchmarking, and LL 88 covers sub-metering and lighting upgrades. Under both, the compliance threshold size for buildings is dropping ...
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By Frank Fortino The expiration of the 421-a tax exemption led to a scramble among developers as they completed preliminary work to get their projects filed. Now, legislators have announced that they are extending the 421-a Affordable Housing Program for ...
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By Brian Lafferty We learned the hard way about the impact of major storms on our City. One of the takeaways of the process was understanding what, exactly FEMA believed to be the flood risks related to NYC. In 2015, ...
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By Garvey Thelemaque Starting on December 5, 2016, After-Hours Variance (AHV) applications will no longer be accepted at borough offices. Instead, applications must be submitted online through the DOB’s eFiling system. To submit an AHV application online, the filer must ...
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By Austin Regan The DOB’s long touted upgrade of their computer filing is way behind schedule. Mandatory use of the new DOB NOW filing system for limited applications (sprinkler & plumbing only) was supposed to begin in the fall. The ...
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By Penny Laughlin In efforts to be more transparent and efficient, the DOB has introduced the NYC Buildings Project Guidelines. The guide intends to provide a general overview of construction industry project requirements for different audiences. There are sections for ...
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By Andrew J. Pisani The numbers are in for housing construction permits for September, and the numbers look good. At 2,218 new units approved, we saw the highest monthly volume in all of 2016. Sound good, right? Yes and no. ...
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By Wayne Sheppard NYCDOT has issued the details of the 2016 Holiday Construction Embargo. The embargo will be in place on Friday, November 18, 2016 from 6:00 AM to 11:59 PM; and again, from Monday, November 21, 2016, 6:00 AM through Monday, January 2, ...
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