by Kevin Dalton We recently worked on an interesting project at Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus in the Bronx. Our mission: to remove the clock hands from four clock faces on the tower of Keating Hall and one clock atop LaLande Hall in Martyrs Court. The hands were removed and turned over to The Verdin…
World Monuments Fund invites you to vote for your favorite photo in our Everyday Preservationist Photo Contest. The photos in this gallery were submitted by photographers of all levels to advocate for everyday preservation. World Monuments Fund sends preservation experts to endangered sites all over the world, but there are things we can do closer…
This July, Keith Luscinski (from the Vertical Access – Salt Lake City office) joined Rob Moore and Dave Katz from Cornell University’s Tree Climbing Institute, on a research trip to assist a team from the University of California, Berkeley with an ongoing project of tracking and sampling seed cones from the canopies of the giant…
VA returned to the New Jersey State House dome for a condition survey with H2L2 Architects and Preservation Design Partnership on a sunny, but cold, day in March – 17 years after our first inspection with Jan Hird Pokorny Associates prior to the restoration of the dome.
by Kelly Streeter I had the opportunity to visit John Canning Painting, Plastering and Conservation Studios in Cheshire, CT last week. Bill Barry, John Riccio and I met to discuss the application and customization of the TPAS software to the types of plaster surveys they routinely do. While there, I was able to tour the…
by Berta de Miguel I am back in the New York City office after 5 months traveling. In April I flew to Spain, where I spent some weeks visiting family and traveling through ancient cities such Avila, Salamanca or Ciudad Rodrigo in my way to Portugal, a country that I love for several reasons, being…
