As the city probes another outbreak of Legionnaires Disease clustered in Washington Heights, building owners and managers are being encouraged to look to new technologies to help eradicate the bacteria once and for all. Cooling tower experts say a...
The steam pipe explosion that blew a crater into the middle of Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District and spewed asbestos onto nearby buildings, cars and people, is still getting cleaned up a week later. The early morning explosion last Thursday shut...
Every day in New York, hundreds of garbage trucks log long hours on the city’s streets, pumping exhaust fumes into the air along with a cacophony of unpleasant sounds and smells. These vehicles frantically crisscross the five boroughs collecting...
By Felix Feliz, PE, CEM, Collado Engineering Come 2020, owners of New York City buildings over 25,000 square feet will have to know—and publicly display—their energy grade. Analogous to the Health Department’s “A, B, C, D” restaurant...
Real estate groups and politicians are debating the viability of installing sprinkler systems in buildings like Trump Tower, where a resident died and six firefighters were injured during a fire on Saturday. The four-alarm blaze broke out Saturday...
