Editor’s Note: Today, many firms have tackled remote work in response to COVID, and learned several lessons along the way. Although this article is about issues that arose well before the current pandemic, it is interesting to realize that today’s firms may very well be better positioned to create solutions like those presented here. …
Author Archives : Stephen Lehigh
Stephen Lehigh is a Project Manager for the DiSalvo Engineering Group and heads the Castle Rock, CO branch office. (steve@tdeg.com)
The design of temporary shoring for existing buildings offers the engineer challenges on multiple levels, especially on vintage structures in New York City when not all the existing conditions can be known. This article presents a project that involved temporary shoring at the second floor of approximately ninety feet of exterior bearing wall and storefront of a depression-era six-story apartment building located on a busy intersection in midtown Manhattan. …