Emily Guglielmo

A buckled support beam at a New York construction site halted work on a major office-to-housing conversion project, underscoring engineering challenges in adaptive reuse. The project aims to convert two midtown Manhattan office buildings, one built in 1909 and another in the 1960s, into 1,600 apartments by adding stories and redesigning structures.

A construction scare at the former Pfizer headquarters in New York, where two steel columns buckled during an office-to-apartment conversion project, highlights engineering challenges in adaptive reuse. The project aims to convert two buildings into 1,600 apartments but faces complexities like ensuring older structures can support new loads and redesigning spaces for residential use.

A construction scare at a New York office-to-housing conversion project highlighted engineering challenges in adaptive reuse. Two steel columns buckled in the newer structure of the former Pfizer headquarters, halting work on a project converting two buildings into 1,600 apartments. Experts emphasized the complexity of such projects but expressed confidence in engineers' ability to address setbacks.

A construction scare at the former Pfizer headquarters in New York highlighted challenges in converting offices into housing. The incident involved buckled steel columns during a large-scale adaptive reuse project, with experts emphasizing the complexity of such conversions but affirming engineers' capability to address them.