We’re counting down to the New Year by sharing 15 of our favorite photographs taken on site and during our travels throughout 2015. #9 Hudson Valley Looking up at a 1930s steel water tower #8 Washington, DC Marcel Breuer’s 1968 headquarters for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building…
We’re counting down to the New Year by sharing 15 of our favorite photographs taken on site and during our travels throughout 2015. #11 Western New York bridges Looking down from a pair of steel-arch highway bridges, with a third steel truss bridge in the background #10 Washington, DC A curious deer watches a VA…
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We’re counting down to the New Year by sharing 15 of our favorite photographs taken on site and during our travels throughout 2015. #13 Trenton, NJ The Lower Trenton Bridge with its iconic 1935 sign, a Chamber of Commerce slogan promoting the city’s manufacturing businesses. #12 Central Park Taken on a rainy day last January. All…
We’re counting down to the New Year by sharing 15 of our favorite photographs taken on site and during our travels throughout 2015. #15 St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, New York City Cast iron fence enclosing the churchyard of the second-oldest church building in Manhattan #14 Annapolis, MD View of the Maryland State House and the Colonial…
Vertical Access has been a voting member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) / American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Z359 Committee on Fall Protection since 2001. The mission statement of the committee, in part, is to “produce voluntary national consensus standards to protect workers at height”. These standards are intended for those involved…
Predicted by its organizers to be the “greatest single event in history,” the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair was indeed a spectacle. One of the most notable structures of the Fair, and one of the few that still stands, is the New York State Pavilion. Looking to create a symbol of progress and to show…
Dozens of software options are available for stitching photographs into scaleable, 2D mosaics or 3D models. We’ve been experimenting with a few different platforms for generating 3D models using footage captured by our DJI Phantom UAV (drone) or by technicians on the ground. In the example below, the photogrammetry software could not accurately render the…
Test your knowledge of historic and iconic buildings in the U.S. (and beyond!) in this series of “guess the building” blog posts. Series No. 6: This 25-foot-tall beauty stands atop one of the largest government buildings in the world, a Beaux Arts masterpiece completed in 1914. She holds a five-sectioned mural crown in her left hand,…
Test your knowledge of historic and iconic buildings in the U.S. (and beyond!) in this series of “guess the building” blog posts. Series No. 7: This 25-foot-tall beauty stands atop one of the largest government buildings in the world, a Beaux Arts masterpiece completed in 1914. She holds a five-sectioned mural crown in her left hand,…
