Tag: building code

• Partial Wall Collapse Leads to Evacuations in 3 Buildings in Brooklyn

  https://abc7ny.com/wall-collapse-forces-residents-out-of-3-buildings-in-brooklyn/5106663/

  29 January 2019

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  building code, construction, safety

• Luxury Williamsburg Apartment Building Turns Out To Be Death-Trap

  http://gothamist.com/2015/11/30/menachem_stark_evactuation.php

  2 December 2015

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  building code, new construction, stalled sites, vacate

• Airbnb Advocates for Dwelling law Amendments

  http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/02/06/airbnb-advocates-for-dwelling-law-amendments/

  6 February 2013

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  building code, hotel, zoning

• City’s Law Tracking Energy Use Yields Some Surprises

  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/science/earth/new-york-citys-effort-to-track-energy-efficiency-yields-some-surprises.html

  27 December 2012

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  building code, energy, leed

• Rethinking Building Code, Post Sandy

  From the Times, some opening thoughts on revamping the building code in a post-hurricane city. The focus for now is on how to build better in a rising-sea level world, versus just not building in Zone A at all (as a rather silly recent “resolution” from Community Board 1 wants). As the Times notes, some…

  24 November 2012

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  building code, development, waterfront, zoning