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Building Conservation Associates (BCA) oversees the chimney restoration and stabilization at the 114-year-old Montauk Club in Brooklyn, NY.

Beyer Blinder Belle deliver a lovingly researched and accurate reconstruction of the Apollo Theater’s Jazz Age façade.

Engineering firm Simpson Gumpertz & Heger's masonry restoration of the historic Ames Building in Boston required a precise approach to how the building’s structural and envelope barrier systems functioned.