{"id":192,"date":"2005-11-14T13:47:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/building.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/14\/construction-rennovations-finished\/"},"modified":"2005-11-14T13:47:59","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T13:47:59","slug":"construction-rennovations-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Construction &amp; Rennovations finished(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Granted I probably didn&#8217;t ask enough of the right questions before hiring the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesoftworks.net\/archives\/2005\/06\/10\/scotty-the-pissed-off-engineer\/\">last engineer<\/a> however, this time, armed with the knowledge of exactly what I need to get inspected, a combination of questions and gut feeling will determine who I&#8217;ll go with. <\/p>\n<p>Just some background on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.op.nysed.gov\/pebroch.htm\">qualifications<\/a> needed in New York state: <br \/> A licensed New York PE has earned a minimum of 12 years of education\/experience credit and has passed a 16-hour national licensing examination. Most New York PEs have a four-year bachelor&#8217;s degree from an accredited engineering program and have earned qualifying experience as an intern engineer. Many engineers also have a master&#8217;s degree in their field. <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Not a whole lot done just yet, but here&#8217;s the list of resources that I&#8217;m working with so far:<\/p>\n<p> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabie.org\/\">National Academy of Building Inspection Engineers<\/a><\/strong>: Formed in 1989 to give building inspectors help with legislation, court cases and gov&#8217;t activity.  <strong>Why should you visit?<\/strong> Basically to use their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabie.org\/find_an_engineer.htm\">Find an Engineer<\/a> page. While not much better (IMHO) than scanning the yellow pages under &#8220;Engineers&#8221;, members are taking their careers serious enough to shell out the membership dues. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.op.nysed.gov\/opsearches.htm\">Verifying a New York Professional Engineer or Architects License<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So after a quick call to NYC&#8217;s 311 line, it turns out that to verify that the building is up to code, I have to make an appointment with an inspector from the Department of Buildings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dob\/html\/contact\/contact.shtml\">Construction Division<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Building must meet local building, plumbing structural, electrical and zoning codes or ordinances. <\/p>\n<p>* Certificate of correction &#8212; Construction division in the dept of buildings: (718) 286-0600 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Construction Inspection Appointments:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Manhattan: (212) 566-5232<br \/> Bronx: (718) 579-6905\/06 <br \/> Brooklyn: (718) 802-3685\/3684 <br \/> Queens: (718) 286-0610\/0691 <br \/> Staten Island: (718) 816-2209 <\/p>\n<p>The Environmental Control Board (ECB) http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dep\/html\/ecb.html <\/p>\n<p>Dept of State Energy Code http:\/\/www.dos.state.ny.us\/code\/energycode\/residential.htm <\/p>\n<p>HPD Entry Page http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/hpd\/html\/online-tools\/hpd-online-portal.html <\/p>\n<p>NYC Code Enforcement Offices http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/hpd\/html\/about-us\/code-enf-offices.html<br \/> http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/hpd\/html\/for-owners\/code-enforcement.html <\/p>\n<p>Citywide Inspection Unit<br \/> http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/hpd\/html\/for-tenants\/sro-compliance-unit.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granted I probably didn&#8217;t ask enough of the right questions before hiring the last engineer however, this time, armed with the knowledge of exactly what I need to get inspected, a combination of questions and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contractors","category-nyc-dob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}