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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The New York City Department of Buildings gratefully acknowledges the following individuals who
contributed to the development of the New York City Construction Codes.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff
Deputy Mayor Edward Skyler
NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL
Christine Quinn, Speaker
Gifford Miller, Speaker
Housing and Buildings Committees
Erik Martin Dilan, Chair
Members: Tony Avella; Maria Baez; Leroy G. Comrie, Jr.; Lewis A. Fidler; Robert Jackson; Rosie Mendez; James S. Oddo; Joel
Rivera; Thomas White, Jr.; James Vacca
Madeline Provenzano, Chair
Members: Tony Avella; Gale Brewer; Leroy G. Comrie, Jr.; Lewis A. Fidler; Robert Jackson; Letitia James; Melinda Katz; James
S. Oddo; Diana Reyna; Joel Rivera
MANAGING COMMITTEE
Members: Julian Bazel; Robert Benazzi, PE; John Bower, PE; Aine Brazil, PE; Irwin Cantor, PE; Bernie Carr; Louis J. Coletti;
Anthony Crowell; Marolyn Davenport; Chief Stanley Dawe (retired); Edward DePaola, PE; Enzo Depol, AIA; Erik Martin Dilan;
Carl Galioto, FAIA; Melvin Glickman; Maria Gotsch; Jessica Handy; Chief Howard Hill, FDNY (retired); Chief Thomas Jensen;
Timothy Joseph; Henry C. Kita; James Kunen; Gary LaBarbera; Nicholas LaPorte; Fred Lindquist, PE; Ronny Livian, PE; Pam
Loeffelman; Edwin Lopez; Edward Malloy; Herbert Mandel, AIA; James Maxwell; Raymond McGuire; Patrick McPartland, PE;
Brian Meacham, PE; Peter Molinaro; Monty Mitchell, AIA; Fruma Narov, PE; Patty Noonan; Paul O’Brien; Stewart O’Brien; Anne
Papageorge, RLA; Madeline Provenzano; Martin Rebholz, RA; George Reilly; Jack Rudin; Matthew Sapolin; Ismene Speliotis;
William Stein, AIA; Gerard Vasisko, AIA; Chester Vogel, PE; Margot Woolley; Michael Zenreich, RA
TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
Accessibility
Matthew Sapolin, Chair
Robert Piccolo, AIA, Co-chair
Members: Fredric Bell, FAIA; Brian Black; Dennis R. Boyd; Douglas W. Boydston; Marrilie Camhe; Gregory J. Carlson; Charles
Cellura, PE; Ernest Conrad, PE; Marolyn Davenport; Anne M. Davis; Enzo Depol, AIA; Sheila Horgan; Nicholas A. Kaminski;
Mark H. Leeds; Diane Lowy; Dominic Marinelli; Jason R. Mischel; Terrence J. Moakley; Edward D. Re, Jr., RA; Mary Ann
Rothman; Charles Rudesill, RLA; John A. Van Deusen; Elliott Vilkas, AIA; Linda M. Volpe; Suzanne Wertz, AIA; Brian M. White;
Alexander Wood
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Administration/Enforcement
Fatma Amer, PE, Chair
Marzio Penzi, Co-Chair
Members: Susan Bacas; Fredric Bell, FAIA; Harvey Brind; John M. Callahan; Suzanne Carroll; Marolyn Davenport; Albert
Fredericks; James Hirani; Janene Jaeger; Michael Jaycox; David May, RA; Peter McCourt; Stewart O’Brien; John O’Donoghue;
Christine Pawelczak; Joseph Polcha; Martin Rebholz, RA; Dennis Rizzo; George Roussey; Douglas Roy; Medhat Salaam; Manuel
A. Santiago, RA; Gaston Silva, RA; Carole Slater; Paul Spears; Jose Valencia; Kenneth Warshaw; Margot Woolley, AIA; Tarek
Zeid
Construction Requirements
Ronny A. Livian, PE, Chair
Enzo Depol, AIA, Co-Chair
Members: Joseph Aliotta; Robin Burns; Colin Cheny; Dennis Crichton; Glen V. Cutrona, AIA; Nicholas Grecco, PE; Gary B.
Higbee, AIA; Harold Jupiter; Jeffrey Kieffer; Edward T. LaGrassa, RA; Joseph Razza, PE; Brendan Weiden, PE
Construction Safety / Demolition
Louis J. Colletti, Chair
Henry C. Kita, Co-Chair
Members: James Bifulco; David Bolger; Kenneth Brancaccio; Ken Buettner; James Conway; Marolyn Davenport; Ted Frank; Al
Gerosa; Michael Handler; Joseph S. Kaming, PE; Michael LaBate; Chief Daniel Martinetion, FDNY; Frank McArdle; Jerry
McCloskey; Joyce Nastasi; Paul O’Brien; John O’Hare; James Ramsburgh; Bruce Rottner; Larry Shapiro, PE; Joseph Vouglas;
Harry Weidmyer
Egress
William Stein, FAIA, Chair
John McCormick, PE, Co-Chair
Members: Warren Calwil, AIA; Roberta Darby Curtis, AIA; Sheila Horgan; Mariana Lishnevski, RA; Chris Marrion, PE; Guy
Maxwell, AIA; William McShane, PE; Richard Murphy; Peter E. Olney, AIA; Michael Plottel, AIA; George Shelden, AIA;
Kathleen Sullivan, AIA; Chief Jack Taddeo, FDNY; Ron Tagliagambe, RA; Hamir Vadi, RA; Chief James Wendling, FDNY
Elevators
Patrick McPartland, PE, Chair
Members: Christopher Afuwah; John Beckmann; Jeff Blain; Tom Donovan; Jim Duffy; Jerry L. Frascelli; Calman Goldstein, PE ;
Hubert Hayes; Shaji Joseph; Andrei Peck; John Merkel, PE; Nicholas Montessano; Kevin Murphy; Robert Walsh
Existing Buildings
Michael Zenreich, RA, Chair
Monty Mitchell, AIA, Co-Chair
Members: George Belnavis; Warren Calwill, AIA; Marolyn Davenport; Elliott M. Glass; Alex Herrera; Ambrose A. Kelly, AIA;
Ben Lavon, PE; Robert J. Marino; Elizabeth McTigue; William Neeley; Robert K. Otani, PE; Michael Plofker, AIA; BrianWhite;
Maria Yao
Fire Protection
Chief Stanley Dawe, FDNY (retired), Chair
Chief Howard Hill, FDNY (retired), Chair
John Bower, Co-Chair
Members: Glenn P. Corbett; Captain John Dunne, FDNY; Joseph P. Esposito; Chief Edward Ferrier, FDNY; James W. Guinan, PE;
Michael P. Gimpel; Thomas Hill; David Jacoby, PE; Chief Thomas Jensen, FDNY; Frank Lorenz, PE; Chris Marrion, PE; Joseph
McCormick Jr.; James McGowan; Jack J. Murphy; Nicholas Peluso, RA; Joseph Razza, PE; Chief Patrick Savage, FDNY; Frank J.
Servello; Chief Ronald Spadafora, FDNY; Jack Torpey; Stephen Weinryb, AIA; John J. Whalen
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Materials
Fruma Narov, PE, Chair
Members: Carmine Attanasio; Casimir Bognacki, PE; Pablo Bruno; Sam Francis; Thomas Gesauldi; Raymond Heun, PE; Sheila
Horgan; Jonathan Humble, AIA; Eve Lustig; Stephen Moro; Mathew Park, AIA; Carmela Pasqua; Michael Peragine; Steve
Rosario; Michael Stallone; Siglinde Stern, RA; Robert Vecchio, PhD, PE; Judith Zuckerman
Mechanical
Chester T. Vogel, PE, Chair
Members: Valentin Antohi, PE; Rock J. Antonios, PE; Edward T. Bosco, PE; Chief Richard Callery, FDNY; Ernest Conrad, PE;
Elias F. Dagher, PE; Frank DeNicola; John L. Elder, PE; Joseph P. Esposito; Roger Firoozan; Robert F. Germain, PE; James Hansen,
PE; William Hayes; Kevin T. Lillis; John Maniscalco; Christopher O. McHugh, PE; Paul Parker; Daniel J. Pitiger; Abraham
Pitsirilos; Ashok Raiji, PE; Michael Reese, PE; Chaya Romano, PE; Alfred Schroeder; Thomas A. Seery, PE; Mitchel W. Simpler,
PE; William M. Singer, RA; John S. Solla, PE; David Tanenbaum, PE; Laurence Turner, PE; James D. VerEecke, PE; Saul Wechter;
Donald J. Winston, PE; John Yacovone
Plumbing
Robert Benazzi, PE, Chair
Members: Edward J. Angelone; Julius Ballanco; Robert J. Bellini; John D. Callaghan; Thomas Cavallo; Jon J. Conway; Dom Diaz;
Charles A. Dimino; Robert Greenburg; James Hart; John Hubbard; Kenneth E. Klein, PE; Garo Koumijian, CIPE; Aydin Kurun;
Dan Lucarelli; Kush Makhijani; John D. McMullen; Ardash Meguerdichian; Anthony J. Montalto; Phillip F. Parisi Jr.; George W.
Reilly; Robert J. Ricco Sr.; Anthony Rini; Stephen Rosario; Vincent Scialli; Richard A. Stamm, PE; Vic Struber; Richard Toder;
Hershel Weiss, CIPE; Battalion Chief Brian M. White, FDNY; Leonard A. Williams; Frantz V. Woolley, PE
Residential
Herbert L. Mandel, AIA, Chair
Gerard Vasisko, AIA, Co-Chair
Members: Willis DeLaCour, AIA; Steven Faicco, RA; Michael S.Gelfand, AIA; Alan Goldstein, AIA; Battalion Chief Edwin
Huberts, FDNY (retired); Edward Lauria, PE; Nicholas Lembo; David Mandl, AIA; James McCullar, FAIA; Battalion Chief John
McEneaney, FDNY; James Muscianesi; Steven Pekofsky; Eftihia Tsitiridis, AIA; Richard Visconti, AIA; Susan Wright, AIA
Structural / Foundation
Irwin G. Cantor, PE, Chair
Edward M. DePaola, PE, Co-Chair
Members: Robert Abramson, PE; Hamid R Adib, PE; Robert Alperstein, PE; William F. Baker, PE; Tim Barnard, PE; Andrew
Ciancia, PE; Frank M. Clemente, Jr., PhD, PE; Charles A. DeBenedittis; Brian A. Falconer, PE; Bill Faschan, PE; Satyendra K.
Ghosh; Ramon Gilsanz, PE; Douglas P. Gonzalez, PE; Jacob Grossman, PE, FACI; Borys I. Hayda, PE; Kenneth A. Hiller, PE;
Cawsie Jijina, PE; Robert Ledwith; Craig A Leech, PhD, PE; J. Butch Almazan Macutay, Jr., PE; Stephen S. Marchese, PE; Joel
Moskowitz, PE; Michael Mota, PE; Andrew D. Mueller-Lust, PE; Sissy Nikolaou, PhD, PE; Allan Paull, PE; Ricardo M. Pittella,
PE; Ahmad Rahimian, PhD, PE; Karl J. Rubenacker, PE; Raymond E. Sandiford, PE; Christopher Schneider; Jeffrey Smilow, PE;
Robert Smilowitz, PE; Michael J. Squarzini, PE; George J. Tamaro, PE; Andrew Vanderveen; Bojidar Yanev, PE; Bernard Yostpille,
PE; John Zils, PE; Rick Zottola, PE
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