DOB ISSUES MONTHLY ENFORCEMENT BULLETIN Report Highlights DOB Enforcement Outcomes from June 2019 to Deter Bad Actors and Keep New Yorkers Safe New York, NY – Today, the New York City Department of Buildings released its June 2019 enforcement bulletin, which provides highlights of the agency’s actions to sanction and deter bad actors in the construction industry through the enforcement of safety laws and codes of conduct for construction professionals. Today’s bulletin includes summaries of DOB-imposed disciplinary actions, including penalties and license suspensions and revocations. The actions below represent a portion of DOB’s overall work to enforce the City’s building codes and safety laws, in addition to the thousands of inspections conducted and violations issued by the agency each month for illegal building and construction conditions. DOB took a number of major enforcement actions in June, including:
24 violations and $333,500 in penalties, including daily penalties, issued for illegal building alterations on three separate occasions.
29 violations and $140,250 in penalties, including daily penalties, issued for illegal transient use of buildings at six different locations.
40 violations and $475,000 in penalties issued for failure to safeguard construction sites on 36 separate occasions.
20 violations and $215,000 in penalties issued to 20 different individuals for failure to carry out duties as construction superintendents. Below are individual enforcement highlights for June 2019:
$77,500 in total penalties issued to Safety Registrant ZP Construction & Renovation for a total of 15 safety violations on two construction sites located at 88-30 54th Avenue and 88-34 54th Avenue, Queens, which included not having a required Construction Superintendent on-site, no safety logs on-site, and having workers on-site without required OSHA training cards.
$37,500 in total penalties issued to Registered General Contractor Aki Renovations Group Inc, for failure to safeguard a construction site located at 19-14 21st Road, Queens, for throwing wood off the building, failure to provide required overhead protection, and a temporary platform in an elevator shaft that was not built according to the approved plans.