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by Don Friedman on February 4, 2013

Here’s OSE’s very own Gabi Pardo, helping describe Grand Central for a Spanish news show on the terminal’s 100th anniversary:

Grand Central cumple 100 años.

 

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Sandy

November 1, 2012

There’s some irony in a structural firm that performs forensic investigation of buildings being shut down by storm damage, but here we are. Our office is fine and the building is open again as of today, but our staff is stranded across the city without reliable transportation and the area surrounding our office is not [...]

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Michael Lo

September 4, 2012

Michael Lo joined Old Structures Engineering in August as an Associate. Michael has more than twenty years experience as a structural engineer, and has worked on new building, renovation and addition, and historic preservation projects. He worked with Marie at a previous job for most of the 1990s, and with both Marie and Don in [...]

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Talk at the Skyscraper Museum

April 9, 2012

I’ll be talking at the Skyscraper Museum (6:30 PM, April 24) on the history of structure in early skyscrapers. This is part of a lecture series in conjunction with the current exhibit on early skyscrapers and specifically the headquarters buildings of New York newspapers erected between 1870 and 1905.

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Mona Abdelfatah

October 19, 2011

Mona Abdelfatah started at Old Structures Engineering yesterday as an engineer. Mona has experience in the design of both renovations and new construction, and will be continuing to work on both types of projects. She is a graduate of UC San Diego and has passed her E.I.T exam.  

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Talk, Down South

September 6, 2011

I’ll be speaking at the AIA-North Carolina conference this Thursday. The talk is on a topic of greg interest to me and close relation to our work: do designers learn lessons from the past. The specific topic I’m going to discuss is the relation of current facade-inspection laws such as New York’s Local Law 11 [...]

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Nat Tocci

June 30, 2011

Mr. Nat Tocci joined Old Structures Engineering in 2011 as an Associate. Nat is an accomplished engineer specializing in the analysis and design of complex structures. He has extensive experience with the design of high rise buildings, hotels, schools, renovations, and the evaluation of existing structures. His past projects include numerous notable structures in NYC [...]

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Andrew Evans

November 3, 2008

Andy Evans has joined Old Structures as a project manager and field engineer, following ten years of real estate development and rehab as CEO of Avalon Holdings.

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Marie Ennis

January 1, 2008

Marie Ennis merged her practice with that of Old Structures, starting today as a principal. Marie’s experience in both structural engineering and historic preservation both broadens our experience base and gives us the capacity to handle larger projects.

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SAHC 2008

November 19, 2007

Don is scheduled to speak at the Sixth International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historic Construction at Bath, UK. The paper will be on  the analysis of archaic floor systems used in steel-framed buildings.

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