Progress and Preservation: Reuse for a Resilient City

In a week and a half, I will be a panelist at the event “Progress and Preservation: Reuse for a Resilient City” organized by the Municipal Art Society of New York. Wednesday, May 6, 8:30 to 2, at 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor; tickets are available at the first link. The MAS has long been involved with historic preservation; this event uses that framework (“advance climate goals, and sustain the cultural life of our neighborhoods”) to discuss adaptive reuse in general, and to deal with New York’s housing short in specific. The first panel will be discussing policy and I expect to learn from it. I’m on the second panel, which will be discussing practical issues in reuse. Astonishingly, I will be discussing structural engineering issues in building reuse, starting with one of our projects and then going wherever the conversation takes us. I can’t say what I’m going to say since it’s contingent on what the moderator and other panelists say…which is the point of panels. An adpative…