Commissioner of Operations and was appointed First Deputy Commissioner of Operations in July 2005. As Acting Commissioner, he is responsible for setting local construction standards, enforcing the Building Code and Zoning Resolution, and regulating New York City's construction industry.

To further the safe and lawful use of New York City's 975,000 buildings and properties, LiMandri has worked to build a stronger infrastructure, bringing in new management and reorganizing the Agency to empower borough leadership and hold management more accountable.  LiMandri has also pushed to increase the overall efficiency and quality of the Agency's processes by streamlining and reworking operational procedures at nearly every level.  By setting consistent expectations and standardizing methods of measurement, LiMandri's efforts have improved the quality of services and increased productivity not before seen in the Agency's history across the five boroughs. 

To raise construction safety standards and improve industry accountability, LiMandri has significantly increased the Agency's enforcement presence by targeting resources to areas ripe for noncompliance. Under LiMandri's guidance, the Department launched its Special Enforcement Plan, dedicating ten newly-formed teams to advance construction safety by aggressively halting dangerous work and raising the construction industry's level of care. To identify ways to make New York City construction safer, LiMandri also launched an unprecedented top-to-bottom analysis of three high-risk areas of construction: concrete, excavations and cranes operations. Under this $4 million Construction Analysis and Oversight Plan, engineering experts will examine the systems, protocols, tools and management of these forms of high-risk construction, while simultaneously studying the Department's own processes - ultimately enabling the Buildings Department to determine what areas the industry needs to improve to minimize risk and how the Agency can best oversee and regulate these types of construction. Finally, recognizing there is much more to do, LiMandri is implementing the Department's 2006 - 2009 Strategic Plan to continue to increase transparency and accountability at all levels of the Agency. 

Prior to joining the Buildings Department, LiMandri was a Director at Real Foundations, a management-consulting firm, where he counseled real estate companies in areas including leasing, deal analysis, management and construction and was a Vice President at OpsXchange, an e-procurement solution firm (2000 - 2002).  From 1997 - 2000, LiMandri was a Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle, where he was a manager and consultant to leading firms and was responsible for Class A office buildings.  Prior to Jones Lang LaSalle, LiMandri utilized his engineering background, managing the Science and Engineering buildings at Columbia University (1990 - 1997). 

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 with his wife and children.

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