Standardized Guidelines by Building Type

The author wrote 3 volumes of Guidelines Vol. I for New Buildings, Vol. II Alteration type I and Directive 14, Vol. III Education. This is the reason for register architects and professional engineers to use this guidelines necessary for orientation before bringing the job to the City for approval. The new book contains guidelines for Restaurants, Banquet Halls, Cabarets, Cafeteria, Dance Halls, Night Clubs, Tavern and Bars. This Volume IV will simplify the work of artifacts for register architects and professional engineers because they will have this guideline for orientation before they will bring the job to the City for approval.

I graduated Polytechnic Institute of New York, in 1981, Bachelor in Science, Civil Engineering, and in 1982, Master in Science, Civil Engineering. I started to prepare for PhD in 1985. The first three and a half years I worded in the Special Analysis Group in EBASCO Serv. Corp in NY World Trade Center, field of expertise, dynamic analysis of structures and substructures, for Nuclear Power Plants (Sheron Harris, North Carolina; Waterford Louisiana; Saint Lucie, Florida; ect.) Six months of experience in concrete and steel design for the Statue of Liberty, in renovation in N.Y. Museum rehabilitation in N.Y. and Brookhaven Laboratory, at the private company of Aman & Whitney, N.Y. World Trade Center. In 1986, I decided to work for the City of N.Y. Depart. of Building as a plan examiner. My first assignment Cranes and Derricks, review of tipping test data submitted by manufacture for compliance with N.Y. City Crane Codes, examination of structural calculations for new Cranes. The last 8 years, I worked as plan examiner for New Buildings, Alterations type I & II, & Directive 14 in Boroughs of Queens, Staten Island, Bronx & Manhattan, for verification of structuctural drawings, zoning resolutions, multiple dwellings and memorandums. All my 14 years as a plan examiner, I realized that the verification and approval of building documentation is a very complex process, time consuming and use of a lot of workers in this process. All of my 14 years in Department. of Buildings, I collected a lot of material from my daily work and the result of these years is concretised in my present book of two volumes of Guidelines, books considered as the first phase for the reform of this complex process of verification & approval of documentation.