Homeowners in Brownstone Brooklyn are anxious about their rooflines. “Someone was giving out flyers today on my block … about ‘mandatory’ parapet wall inspections,” one wrote on a Brownstoner forum.

In November 2021, New York City enacted Local Law 126 of 2021, which is well-known in the building industry for establishing new requirements for periodic parking garage inspections. At the same time, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Who knew that a ...

Today, it’s a fairly ordinary Jefferson Parish neighborhood, with modest but tidy homes co-existing shoulder to shoulder amid the hustle and bustle of the more commercially developed Causeway ...

CYPRESS HILLS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A worker was killed after a parapet, or a rooftop wall, collapsed on him at a one-story garage in Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon. It happened just before 3 p.m. at 113 ...

The grounds of a Civil War fortification in Old Jefferson will be the site of an annual observance from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday for Camp Parapet Day. The Jefferson Parish Historical Society and ...

Historic architecture made a clear distinction between the normal load-bearing wall up to the roof and the non-load bearing parapet wall on the terrace. In village homes if it was the simple mud wall ...

of a Housing Board block in Boon Lay. In an earlier statement, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) revealed that there was localised damage on the concrete roof parapet, which partially ...

Although the practice of using a concrete barrier down the center of a roadway to separate opposing traffic dates back to the mid-1940s, the practice seems really to have gained steam when, in 1955, ...