Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris announced on April 7 that the state budget agreement preserved New York City’s Local Law 97 – the centerpiece of the Climate Mobilization Act – which mandates ambitious carbon reduction targets for large buildings. “Local Law 97 was years in the making, the result of painstaking work and thorough analysis […]
Construction fatalities accounted for more than 25% of all worker deaths in New York City after increasing for the third year in a row, according to a new study. While movers and shakers like to measure the city’s progress in projects and developments, the breakthroughs often come at a deadly cost. And construction workers pay […]
For decades, the construction industry has been shaping Manhattan’s iconic skyline, developing New York’s ever-evolving infrastructure system and expanding and updating the elaborate network of highways, bridges, subways, commuter rail lines and airports that make New York a global city. But the industry has accomplished much more than that. While they have been hampered for […]
The sweeps will focus on approximately 1,100 sites performing facade work across New York City. On February 18, 2021, the Department of Buildings (DOB) announced the launch of a seven-week long facade and scaffold safety blitz. The campaign includes educational outreach to construction workers and other industry professionals and inspection sweeps of facade work sites […]
A city Department of Buildings inspector has been charged with taking a $1,200 bribe to not issue a $25,000 fine, Brooklyn federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Inspector Francesco Ginestri, 36, faces one count each of bribe receiving and bribery, according to a federal criminal complaint. “A building inspector who was entrusted with protecting public safety at […]
Local Law 196: Site Safety Training Deadline Local Law 196 of 2017 Deadline has passed on March 1. There was no deadline extension this time. The law requires workers at job sites that must designate a Construction Superintendent, Site Safety Coordinator or Site Safety Manager to receive 40 hours of Site Safety Training. To demonstrate […]
