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A SKYLINE RESTORATION PUBLICATION
Kate Allen, President of Allen Architectural Metals, discusses how she and her team preserve, repair, or replicate historic metal and how they determine which course of action to take.
ISSUE #51 WINTER 2024/2025
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A New Era for Terra Cotta
How Technology is Changing the Game By Michael Kramer, Midwest Territory Manager, Gladding, McBean When it comes to preserving historic...
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Failing Façades: When To Repair, When To Reskin
Buildings are designed to last, but despite the best intentions, sometimes elements break down far more quickly than they should.
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
By Mike Lopez, R.A., AIA, Director, Rimkus In a city as vast and densely populated as New York City, performing exterior work is likely...
May 22, 20245 min read
New Sidewalk Shed Designs
Arup US and Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) to design new sidewalk sheds and pedestrian safety equipment for New Yorkers New...
May 22, 20241 min read
"Top 10" Reasons for A Stop Work Order
The Department of Buildings issues a Stop Work Order (SWO) at a work site when inspectors determine a site has unsafe work or conditions...
May 22, 20241 min read
From Sustainable Roofing to Below-Grade Waterproofing
At The IIBEC Metro NY Building Enclosure Symposium Spiro Markatos, president, Skyline Restoration, talks about the mock-up wall Skyline...
Feb 15, 20241 min read
Reporting Deadlines
Parking Garages - The first deadline for the city's parking structure inspection program for properties in sub-cycle A was Sunday,...
Feb 15, 20241 min read
Restoring the Historic Roof at 110 E 42nd Street, New York
Preserving New York's Heritage One Tile at a Time - By Amy DeLuca Senior Project Manager/ Studio Lead, CANY The first time that I stepped...
Oct 25, 20234 min read
Sidewalk Shed Permits and Approved Artwork
As of September 1, 2023, the NYC Department of Buildings no longer waives the Work Without a Permit civil penalty for installed permitted...
Oct 25, 20231 min read
Build Safe | Live Safe Conference 2023
Key presentations are summarized here. One of the main Conference presentations, 2022 NYC Construction Code Sidewalk Shed Requirements &...
Oct 25, 20235 min read
“Get Sheds Down”: Mayor Adams' Plan to Remove Miles of Sidewalk Sheds Throughout New York City
Photo: NYC.GOV In late July, NYC Mayor Eric Adams and DOB Commissioner Jimmy Oddo announced the City’s new “Get Sheds Down” plan to...
Oct 25, 20236 min read
Legislation Package to Address Scaffolding
Bills aim to speed up the process for taking down scaffolding, allow for less intrusive alternatives to be used, ensure the scaffolding...
Jun 12, 20233 min read
Distinctive and Enduring Cast Stone and GFRC Replications
Vestacast's products enhance the city skyline today and for the future “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,...
Jun 12, 20237 min read
SKYlines 10 Year Edition
Dear SKYlines Readers, It is with great pleasure that we present to you a special edition of SKYlines, a 260-page publication...
Feb 28, 20232 min read
Awards of Excellence in Historic Preservation
Skyline's restoration project at The Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, at 520 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn, NY receives two prestigious...
Feb 28, 20233 min read
The Journey to Excellence
These awards recognize the quality, scale, and complexity of the carefully executed restoration — the result of a tremendous...
Feb 28, 20238 min read
The Art of Retooling Since 1890
For the preservation of the historic Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew in Brooklyn, NY Skyline Restoration used tools made by Trow &...
Feb 28, 20232 min read
3D Laser Scanning Brings Accuracy in Exterior Restoration
Alan Barr, owner of Stone Details, explains how technology brings important advances to surveys and documentation for existing buildings...
Dec 17, 20224 min read
Celebrating Excellence
Skyline Restoration Receives Its Third Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award for One Wall Street The One Wall Street Condominium Residences...
Jul 5, 20223 min read
DOB Highlights the 2022 Construction Code Revisions
During the "Spring Digital Build: Safety, Innovation & Sustainability Conference" “Building codes truly serve as the structural skeleton...
Jul 5, 20224 min read
Sweeping Updates to NYC Construction and Building Codes
City Council passes bill with over 600 major revisions that will improve the safety and well-being of all New Yorkers and ensure that NYC...
Jan 6, 20224 min read
City Council Passes Four Construction Safety Bills
On Wednesday, November 10th, the New York City Council passed four new construction safety bills. Among other important changes, these...
Jan 6, 20221 min read
NYC Construction Outlook Forecasts $161 billion in spending for 2021-2023
The New York Building Congress and the New York Building Foundation released their 2021-2023 New York City Construction Outlook, part of...
Jan 6, 20221 min read
Peter Oxenham
After 17 years and over 3,000 estimates, Skyline Restoration’s senior estimator, a mentor to many, retired earlier this year PHOTO:...
Jan 6, 20224 min read
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