Forensic Engineering Intern

Job Description

The primary role of DOB’s Forensic Engineering unit (FEU) is to ensure public safety across all five boroughs of New York City. The unit responds to referrals and emergencies involving complex engineering and construction problems with unsafe, collapsed, leaning, fire damaged, or otherwise structurally compromised buildings and structures, also addressing issues of egress, zoning, and occupancy.

FEU provides the Agency with engineering competence for incidents, accidents, collapses, fires, weather events and building related fatalities and services DOB emergency responses and special engineering needs. With each referral, FEU prepares a report addressing the history of building construction, an assessment of recent building performance, as well as recommendations for action after the building has experienced a trauma. FEU reports may offer engineering explanations of the findings, analysis, problems, and solutions of an affected structure as well as co...

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