the Buildings Department as Acting Commissioner from April 2008 - September 2008, as First Deputy Commissioner from 2005 to April 2008, and as Deputy Commissioner of Operations from 2002 to 2005. Building upon the progress of the past few years, Commissioner LiMandri is focused on raising construction safety standards, improving industry accountability, and transforming the Buildings Department into a modern enforcement agency better positioned to hold parties responsible when they do not make safety their first priority.

Under Commissioner LiMandri's leadership, the Department has launched an unprecedented, $4 million High Risk Construction Oversight plan to analyze and improve regulations regarding concrete, crane and excavation operations.  To further raise industry standards, Commissioner LiMandri has put contractors on notice that they must staff their construction sites with workers and supervisors who make worker and public safety the number one priority - and he is working to make sure Department Inspectors and enforcement staff hold responsible parties to this nonnegotiable standard. To this end, Commissioner LiMandri has expanded and launched new enforcement teams, strengthened New York City's crane regulations, and is working to utilize state-of-the-art technology to improve the overall quality of agency operations and accountability. 

Prior to joining the Department, Commissioner LiMandri gained invaluable experience by making large organizations more effective and productive by reorganizing, rebuilding and updating their systems.  From 2000 to 2002, he was a Director at RealFoundations, a real estate and construction consulting firm.  Prior to that, he was a Vice President at OpsXchange, an e-procurement solution firm.  From 1997 to 2000, Commissioner LiMandri was a Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle, where he was a manager and consultant to leading institutional investors and was responsible for Class A office buildings.  Prior to Jones Lang LaSalle, Commissioner LiMandri managed the Science and Engineering buildings at Columbia University (1990 to 1997). 

Commissioner LiMandri received his Master's degree in Real Estate from New York University (1998) and his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York (1987). He currently resides in Queens Village with his wife and two children.

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