Today’s post comes while I’m in Kansas City for the annual APTI Conference. I’m spending my time at the conference generally schmoozing with people in all fields touching on preservation – architects, conservators, buildings owners, contractors, and so on – but also meeting with peers in the field of conservation engineering. Most of them are …
Some of the B Corps based in New York are quite a bit bigger in influence than we are. One of these companies is Etsy. They’ve become famous as a way for people to pursue crafts as part-time businesses instead of only as hobbies; more importantly, their high B Impact score shows that they are pursuing …
Here is a video of Sara Horowitz of the Freelancers Insurance giving a good explanation of the philosophical* foundation of the B Corp movement. Her points apply to the B Corp movement in general, but are a nice summary of the goals of the Best for NYC Challenge. *There’s that word again.
Part of working with old buildings is having a library that includes not only current engineering and preservation information but that also covers the era in which we work. In oath words, the 1916 New York City Building is often as useful to us as the 2014 code. When I started my own firm in …
For the Best for NYC Challenge, I’d like to recognize BBMG. Another Brooklyn-based company and one that, like Old Structures, is a consulting firm. Branding is usually seen as a subset of marketing and therefore not necessarily a topic that implies people-based goals, but BBMG thinks otherwise. Good for them and good for their clients.
