Nearly 150 parking structures in parts of Manhattan have been deemed unsafe or in need of repairs and continued monitoring, and reports on hundreds more are pending review or late to be filed.
Structural issues with a parking garage in the Hell’s Kitchen
neighborhood of Manhattan prompted an engineer hired by the building’s
owner to call 911 to report it.
In South Florida, Suffolk is constructing underground parking garages to add space and value to projects amid small sites and other site constraints like height limits.
Parking structures can often be an afterthought in larger projects, but the hidden costs of delays and design changes can upend an otherwise simple structure.
Jason Reigstad is on a crusade to warn about lurking danger in more than 100 parking garages, each with an underdesigned—and non-code-complaint—precast double-T slab system.
On prime riverfront real estate in Jacksonville, Fla., the unclad 18- story concrete frame of an abandoned condominium casts a shadow over its downtown neighborhood.