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Talking History

by Don Friedman on March 30, 2013

I’ll be speaking at the Skyscraper Museum on May 15. The talk concerns the engineers and engineering developments of early skyscrapers that culminated in the construction of the Woolworth Building in 1913.

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Stanford White Awards

December 5, 2012

The Institute for Classical Architecture & Art has announced its first group of design awards, and two projects that Old Structures collaborated on have won. Drumlin Hall is a large, classically styled private residence in the Hudson Valley designed by Peter Pennoyer Architects and completed in 2010. The Carnegie Hill apartment building is an addition [...]

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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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Our New Website

August 4, 2011

The recent switch to a new website was based on technical issues. While the software we were using previously had a blog-style layout that we used for our news and projects pages, modifying it meant reopening the entire site in the software, editing, and then FTPing the whole thing back to our web host. The [...]

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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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