Brian D. Waller, Chair of Peckar & Abramson’s White Collar, Regulatory Compliance & Investigations practice, and Co-chair of the firm’s Crisis Management team, was recently quoted in “How Engineers Will Determine Why NYC’s Pfizer HQ Conversion Buckled,” an article written by Engineering News-Record (ENR). This article examines the ongoing investigation into the structural failure at the former Pfizer headquarters redevelopment in Manhattan, where two load-bearing columns buckled during one of the nation’s largest office-to-residential conversion projects. It explores the engineering, legal, and risk-management processes that follow a major structural incident, including evidence preservation, forensic analysis, and the parallel investigations conducted by project stakeholders and their counsel.

The full article can be read here.