Capabilities
Building renovation services in New York City
The work is grouped into systems rather than listed as trades, because that is how a renovation job is bought and built. Every system below is self-performed.
Capabilities
The work is grouped into systems rather than listed as trades, because that is how a renovation job is bought and built. Every system below is self-performed.
Parking Garage SystemsDeck renovation, traffic coatings and structural repair for parking structuresView service 
Local Law 11 / FISPFacade inspection cycle, scaffold access, repairs and violation close outView service 
Waterproofing SystemsMembranes, coatings, sealants and thermal protection, roof to basementView service 
Flooring SystemsEpoxy, urethane and decorative resin floors, plus floor protectionView service 
Renovation & RestorationCommercial renovation, office and retail lobbies, fit out and restorationView service 
Sidewalks & CurbsSidewalk repair and replacement, curb work, violation removal and thermal protectionView service 
Site Safety & AccessSite safety managers, rigging, pipe scaffold and sidewalk bridgesView service 
Compliance, Expediting & ViolationsFilings, permits and all violations removed, from DOB to FISPView service 
Emergency Repairs24/7 response, make safe and permanent repairView service A parking deck is the hardest working concrete a building owns. It carries traffic, road salt, standing water and thermal movement at once, and chlorides work down through the slab to attack the reinforcement inside it. Left alone that stops being a maintenance item and becomes a structural one. We take the whole system, because a garage that is repaired but not coated is a garage that will be repaired again: the concrete, the joints, the membrane and the wearing surface are one job, sequenced bay by bay so the structure keeps operating throughout. Large parking garage renovation is programmed the same way, level by level, so a structure of any size keeps earning while it is put right.
Local Law 11, the Facade Inspection & Safety Program (FISP), puts every New York City building taller than six stories on a five-year facade inspection cycle, examined by a Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector and filed with the DOB as Safe, SWARMP or Unsafe. An Unsafe finding starts a clock: protection goes up immediately and repairs follow on a deadline. A SWARMP condition must be corrected before the next cycle closes, or it becomes the next report's problem, with monthly penalties and a mandatory sidewalk shed waiting behind a missed filing. We carry the whole sequence as one company: the access and probes the engineer needs for the survey, our own scaffold, hoisting and sidewalk bridging, the masonry, stone, lintel and sealant repairs the report calls for, and the paperwork that clears the violation the filing generated. Because the access and the repair are the same crews, the scaffold goes up when the work is ready and comes down the day the condition is corrected, not a season later.
Water is what turns a maintenance item into a structural one, and it very rarely enters a building at the point where the stain appears inside. That is why chasing the symptom wastes money. We work the roof, the parapet, the wall below it and the structure below grade together, and we detail the transitions between them, because transitions are where assemblies actually fail. The membrane and its terminations go in as the structure goes back together, which is the only point at which they can be done properly. Thermal protection is installed on the same principle and over the same range, from the rooftop down to the basement, because insulation and waterproofing share the same substrate, the same details and the same failure points, and separating them across two trades is how gaps get left behind a finished wall.
A resinous floor is only ever as good as the slab beneath it and the preparation in between. Most floor failures are bond failures, and bond is decided before any resin is opened: moisture in the slab, laitance left on the surface, contamination in an old joint. Because the concrete is our own work as well, the substrate and the coating are the same responsibility, which removes the usual argument about why a floor lifted. Epoxy systems and urethane systems are both self-performed, and the choice between them is made on what the floor has to survive rather than on what is easiest to install. We also install floor protection systems, which is the other half of the same problem: a finished floor in an occupied or still active building has to survive the trades, the traffic and the deliveries that come after it, and covering it properly is cheaper than refinishing it later.
Renovation in an occupied building is a logistics problem as much as a construction one. The work is staged around tenants, deliveries and business hours, and the noisy, dusty and disruptive operations are programmed rather than simply started. Because the envelope and structural capability sit in the same company, the structural repair that turns up once a ceiling is open does not stop the job while another contractor is found. Office and retail lobbies are their own case within that: they stay in use throughout, every surface is seen from close range, and the stone, metal and glass have to be set to a tolerance the rest of the building never asks for.
Retail build-outs, fit-outs and construction inside occupied and secure buildings have a page of their own: Retail and high-security interiors
Sidewalk work is public work. It happens in a live street, with pedestrians routed around it, a DOT specification to meet and an inspector who will measure it. We are a DOT approved contractor and we self-perform the concrete, so repair, replacement, forming, pouring and finishing are all in the same hands, and the violation is carried through to removal once the bay is signed off. Thermal protection is part of the work through the cold months, because fresh concrete that is allowed to freeze before it gains strength will fail the inspection it was poured to pass.
On a New York facade job the public walks underneath the work from the moment the shed goes up. Safety here is not a folder in the trailer: it is the shed that is in the right place, the netting that is actually tied off, the scaffold rigged to the engineered layout, and someone on site whose job is to stop work when something is wrong. We plan it with the scope rather than after it, and we put up the access ourselves: sidewalk bridges over the walkway, pipe scaffold up the elevation, and the rigging that gets crews and material to the face of the building safely.
Most firms do one half of this. Either they file the paperwork and subcontract the repair, or they do the repair and hand back the correspondence. We do both, which matters when a violation needs a permit pulled, work carried out and an inspection passed in that order. Each agency runs its own track, with its own process and its own inspectors, so a violation is never closed on paperwork alone: the condition has to be corrected at the building and the record cleared afterwards.
Emergency work is a staffing question before it is a construction question. Because the crews, the access equipment and the concrete capability are all in-house, mobilizing does not depend on another company picking up the phone. The people who make the building safe tonight are the people who build the permanent repair afterwards, and who clear the violation that follows it.
Describe the condition and we will tell you which trade it is, and whether it is urgent.