Local Law 11 facade repairs underway from scaffolding on a New York City high rise

New York City · Tri-state area

Building renovation specialists for New York City

A specialty contractor that self-performs its work. Our own crews carry each job from the first survey through the repair to the violation being signed off.

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Services

What we do

The building systems we take on and the compliance work that goes with them: the parking deck, the facade, the roof, the sidewalk, and the filings that clear them.

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Local Law 11 / FISP

The five-year cycle,
carried end to end

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.

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How we work

From assessment to sign off

Six stages, in the order they happen on an occupied building.

  1. 01
    Assessment

    A condition survey by our own engineers and field crews that establishes what is actually wrong, not what is easiest to price.

  2. 02
    Scope, permits & filing

    Engineering and architectural work turned into a scope, a DOB filing and a pulled permit. Our in-house expediting moves the paperwork so the schedule never waits on a counter.

  3. 03
    Access & site safety

    Our own scaffold, bridging, netting and protection, erected when the work is ready, with DOB-licensed site safety managers and safety plans in place where the job requires them.

  4. 04
    Self-performed work

    The repair carried out by our crews rather than passed down a chain of subcontractors. One company accountable for the concrete, the masonry and the schedule.

  5. 05
    Inspection

    Work checked by the people accountable for it and presented for agency inspection: DOB, DOT, or the QEWI closing out a facade cycle.

  6. 06
    Sign-off, violations cleared & close-out

    The correction documented, DOB, DOT and sidewalk violations dismissed, the record closed, and a maintenance plan handed over if wanted.

Why Executive

What you are actually hiring

LicensedLicensed New York contractor operating under DOB and DOT requirements.
InsuredCarrying insurance appropriate to the scale and risk of the work we take on.
ExperiencedFifty years of hands on experience behind the crews on site.
Emergency responseA 24 hour line answered by the organization that turns out.
NYC specialistsBuilt around New York City building law, agencies and street conditions.
Certified teamsTrade specific crews rather than general labor moved between scopes.
Engineering supportEngineering and architectural capability alongside the field work.
Project managementA single point of accountability, so nothing falls between trades.
SafetySite safety management treated as part of the scope, not an afterthought.
Quality controlWork inspected by the people accountable for it, before anyone else sees it.
Selected work

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Every photograph on this site is the company's own project work.

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Licensing & safety

Credentials that are checkable

We list only what can be verified. Nothing on this site claims a credential the company has not stated.

NYC Department of Buildings

Work carried out under DOB permit and inspection requirements, including FISP facade filings.

NYC Department of Transportation

DOT approved contractor for sidewalk, curb and roadway work in the public right of way.

Licensed contractor

Licensed New York contractor, working under permit in the City of New York.

Site safety management

Licensed site safety managers and coordinators placed on jobs that require them.

Questions

Frequently asked

Local Law 11, now administered as the Facade Inspection Safety Program, requires buildings taller than six stories to have their exterior walls inspected by a qualified professional on a five year cycle. Conditions are reported as safe, unsafe, or SWARMP. Unsafe conditions require immediate action and protection, and SWARMP conditions carry a repair deadline tied to the next cycle.

We self-perform. The masonry, concrete, scaffolding and repair crews are ours, which is why we can commit to an emergency response and why the same organization that files the work carries it out.

Yes. DOB and DOT violations are handled as two separate tracks because they are two separate agencies, and in both cases we do the physical correction as well as the filing and sign off.

All five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and the greater NY tri-state area (NY, NJ, CT). Our office is at 42 Broadway in Lower Manhattan.

The emergency line runs 24 hours. Because the crews, the access equipment and the concrete capability are all in house, mobilization does not depend on another company's schedule.

Most of our work is on occupied buildings. Sequencing, protection, pedestrian routing and tenant access are planned as part of the scope rather than dealt with once work has started.

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Tell us what the building is doing

Send the violation, the inspection report or a photograph, and you will get a straight answer about scope and sequence.

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