A handy mantra for anyone facing a FISP* filing is “Fix, then file.” In other words: if you attend to the condition of your building’s envelope regularly, then periodic filing of a FISP report becomes a formality—rather than a rude awakening.

According to Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “brevity is the soul of wit.” It’s also a virtue in the practice of exterior restoration. Avoiding jargon and using straightforward, concise language—plain English—is a best practice when writing reports and specifications.

New York’s array of public housing forms a city within the city—one that SUPERSTRUCTURES is proud to help keep safe and viable for over 500,000 residents each year.

SUPERSTRUCTURES is familiar with this 748-unit cooperative complex—and not just from our recent work to restore the envelopes of its six buildings. Our two founding principals toured the complex under construction when they were architecture students at Cooper Union.

Change orders usually mean additional expense and a delayed project completion date. But occasionally, they’re a pleasant surprise—when they signify a reduction in construction cost. Our restoration of Columbia University’s Fayerweather Hall is a recent example.

Do you have the particular set of skills we’re looking for? They include the ability to craft construction documents (drawings and specifications) that are correct, complete, clear, concise, and consistent.

Clever of the British to give a posh name to a common problem: Regent Street Disease. But there’s no mask requirement in London’s West End—this disease affects buildings, not people. London’s prestigious Regent Street lends its name to a form of facade deterioration common to the neighborhood’s proliferation of 19th-century buildings.

From Harlem to Hell’s Kitchen and Jersey City to JFK airport, SUPERSTRUCTURES has restored buildings across the greater New York region. Each pin on this map represents one of our projects in progress and the renewal of part of the backbone of the city. Each project is an opportunity to advance our practice of the art and science of restoration.

While conducting a test using a handheld, high-pressure spray nozzle to investigate water infiltration at a prominent condominium building in the South Street Seaport Historic District, we made our own mini rainbow! Non-destructive testing techniques like this (which we call leakage mapping) give us valuable information.

Year after year, SUPERSTRUCTURES successfully completes more exterior restoration projects than any other firm in the New York region. Each pin on this map represents one of our projects in progress. More importantly, each pin represents the renewal of part of the backbone of the city, as well as an opportunity to advance our practice of the art and science of restoration.