In 2018 a fire burnt down St. Joseph’s Chapel on the Mary Help of Christian’s Campus in North Haledon New Jersey, home to the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco. On August 20th of this year, nearly 4 years later, the very first mass was held to consecrate the newly designed and constructed chapel. Among the attendees to celebrate the reopening of the chapel was Cuono Engineering’s Founder and Principal, Ciro Cuono, P.E. Cuono Engineering, working with schematic renderings by

by Melissa Fitter, P.E. and Lucas Schmotzer, E.I.T. In 2017, Cuono Engineering began the design of a new, mixed-use, affordable housing building in collaboration with Think! Architecture. The building, known as Betances VI, is part of the Betances Houses which comprise a “scattered site” New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) development in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. Betances VI is to be developed as a 15-story, 101,000 sq. ft. building with 115 affordable residen

by Jason Shaub, P.E. Having your deck inspected regularly is important to ensure the safety of all that utilize it. Recently, Cuono Engineering has been hired to help inspect the structural integrity of backyard residential wooden decks for a local condominium complex. The community, which was built in the late 1990’s, consists of 29 buildings with 70 units in total. Each unit has an upper and a lower deck, resulting in 140 decks that need our assistance. Outdoor wooden deck

by Sarah Mercer, P.E. From the 1870s to the 1930s, New York City and surrounding cities boomed with the construction of multi-story “steel skeleton” structures. Many of these buildings were ornately decorated in terra-cotta, limestone, and other decorative masonry and were lauded as architectural marvels. This ornate and rich craftsmanship is supported by a robust framing system of steel columns and beams embedded within façade walls and which typically haven’t seen the light