Management Support Final Housing Inspection Program

Inspection Services to Support Communities Following Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Irene, and Tropical Storm Lee

We are assisting GOSR in managing funds and inspecting homes in response to storm damage in upstate New York and on Long Island following Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Irene, and Tropical Storm Lee.

Our work is helping to confirm homes are decent, safe, and sanitary.

Our scope of work also included a contract to support GOSR with change orders for construction and other HUD approved items.

Owner: New York Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery
Location: New York, NY
Services: Planning, Consulting, and Advisory, Geospatial, Mapping, and Survey
Markets: Risk, Response, Recovery, and Resilience, Federal

Cost: $3,397,500
Completed: 2018
Region: Northeast

We were selected by the New York Housing Trust Fund Corporation (HFTC) to support the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) with disaster recovery advisory and project management services. Our work helped assist GOSR in managing funds in response to storm damage in upstate New York and on Long Island following Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Irene, and Tropical Storm Lee.

We performed final inspection services, which confirmed that work outlined in the original damage estimate has been completed, and that the homes were decent, safe, and sanitary.

Our scope of work also included a contract to support GOSR with change orders for construction and other U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved items, including elevation requirements, bulkheads, inspection scope changes, and coordination with local engineers and architects on HUD maximum design criteria for single and rental homes for the state of Ney York.

Additionally, we contracted with GOSR Staffing, which included senior construction technical subject matter expert consulting, inspection services for final home repairs and elevations, appeals and demonstrable hardship review, clarification services, fraud case review services, and alternative pathway decisions for closing completed projects.