Sanchez asks for small-site vs large-site inspection breakdown
Sanchez, representing a district of smaller buildings, asks how many inspections occur at small sites below the SST threshold versus larger sites; Tigani says he does not have those numbers but describes borough enforcement teams, real-time enforcement, and the Staying Vigilant program, while Shamash explains construction super requirements.
And just another question to make sure we're on the same page.
If you have this information, because I don't think we sent this to you in advance.
One of the complaints I get on a local level is, you know, the types of complaints I get on a local level because the kind of district that I represent is about smaller buildings, right?
Those that don't meet the threshold, say, for requiring site safety training cards and supervisors and assistants and coordinators and all of that.
So can you help us understand using the, you know, whether it's the 415,000 overall
inspections per year or, you know, the 160,000 or so enforcement inspections, can you help us understand the breakdown of...
How many of these
inspections are happening at small sites, you know, one, two-story buildings, those that don't meet the threshold for SST versus at larger sites.
I'm not sure if we have those numbers exactly.
I will say that of our teams on the reactive side, the borough enforcement team, each borough has an enforcement team that's managed through a central leadership team.
They are out there doing reactive, responsive enforcement in addition to real-time enforcement that works in the evenings or emergency response team that goes out in the evenings and weekends.
So we can come back with those numbers, but we have additional units even beside the borough enforcement team.
We also have, as a complement on the proactive inspection team, our Staying Vigilant program, which focuses on
particularly violations we find and going back and looking at our analytics for where we see hotspots or bad actors.
And just to add in, a construction super is required on all new buildings, so that irrespective of the size of the building,
in our building code we have a definition for a major building, seven stories and up.
That is only for site safety managers and coordinators.
Construction supers are still required on all new buildings.
Existing buildings that have a vertical or horizontal enlargement, a full demo, an alteration that is within a building, more than 50% of the floors of the building.
If you're removing a floor of a building,
or if you're doing any kind of underpinning or SOE work, supportive excavation work, those construction sites still require a construction super.
That's helpful.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Deputy Commissioner.