ZIE provides condition assessment of public and private buildings in New York Metro area as sub-consultant. Since 2014 we have continuously been conducting building condition assessments of hundreds of school facilities ranging from 5k to 400k SF, including high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, office buildings housed in SCA-owned buildings, leased facilities, and temporary portable classroom structures in all boroughs. The methodology of inspection and reporting was designed to comply with the standards delineated in NYSED BCS while expanding the scope to include additional data that would help the School Construction Authority-SCA to develop a more detailed 5-year Capital Plan and Annual Amendments.

As the prime consultant, we completed the condition assessment for 23 childcare facilities in five Boroughs of NYC owned by NYC DCAS; for these 23 facilities we developed the scope of work and cost estimates for the rehab/repair work ranging in cost from $3M to $8M per building. Additionally, ZIE was also the prime consultant for the Property Condition Assessment (PCA) survey for Adelphi Academy – a private school offering classes from Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade.

The New York City Rule RCNY-FISP (aka Local Law 11/98) requires that the exterior walls and appurtenances of buildings taller than six (6) stories high are inspected by a Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector (a Professional Engineer or Registered Architect approved by NYCDOB) at least once every five years. The report of such inspection shall be submitted to the DOB and if the inspection finds an unsafe condition, such condition shall be reported immediately in writing to the owner and the DOB. These unsafe conditions are required to be corrected within 30 days of filing the report. Having performed numerous façade inspections on several public and private projects, ZIE is qualified and experienced to undertake any projects regardless of height and footprint area.

ZIE is currently providing structural design on major public and private projects. These projects include commercial and residential buildings and public facilities.

Our team of structural engineers do project coordination with the architects, MEP engineers and other team members from the beginning of the project, through Microsoft Teams and Bluebeam; they have experience in design and analysis of structural systems including steel and concrete, flat slabs, conventional beam/slab, steel frames, long span trusses, foundation, slab on grade, etc.; also, the team have the capacity to design reinforced concrete, light gauge, steel, and wood structures. They perform load calculation including live load, dead load, wind load, snow load etc., gravity and lateral analysis, and prepare design of all elements of structures, including foundation, retaining wall, roofs, beams, columns, slabs. We use contemporary design and analysis software including ETABS, SAFE, Revit, Autocad, and Bluebeam. Our design processes undergo internal review and quality control to eliminate common design errors and ensure code compliance, and constructability.

ZIE has been qualified to perform special inspections under New York City Department of Building approval (Agency Number 4655) since 2014 under all categories of the form TR-1: architectural, structural, general building construction, fire protection and fire resistant construction, plumbing and mechanical systems, structural materials and construction operations. Please click here to see the list of categories.

Our key public project has been special inspection services in the construction of LaGuardia Airport Queens, NY. We also provide special inspections for public agencies such as NYCSCA, MTA and NYSDOT, and numerous private projects in the New York Metro area and Long Island, NY.