For each assessment, our office assembles a team of experts under a single mantle of administration and management. Our stabilization/conservation/restoration assessments cover a vast range of work, including decorative paintings and other ecclesiastical art, plaster walls and ceilings, exterior masonry, roofs, stained glass, and existing structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing conditions.

Our analyses include professional cost estimates that are prioritized by categories and phases from urgent to contingent need, in order to aid the owner's financial planning. This serves to establish a work schedule to address both deferred and ongoing maintenance.

As part of an overall Existing Conditions Assessment, the building's exterior envelope often represents the most urgent need before other capital improvements are considered for later phases of planned maintenance programs.

It is not uncommon for buildings to have sidewalk vaults that contain utilities, especially many older buildings which employed vaults for coal bins and chutes. Older structures are susceptible to damage due to age or poorly maintained structural and water-proofing systems at the retaining walls and sidewalk deck.