The world has changed,” says Charlie Copeland, P.E. and president and CEO of New York City-based Goldman Copeland Consulting Engineers.
It so happens Copeland had a critical role in those changes, particularly in the Big Apple, and it’s because he took a chance.
In the mid-1970s — in the midst a nationwide energy crisis — a group of self-sufficient homesteaders wanted to revitalize the building at 519 East 11th St., a structure situated in the middle of a crime-ridden neighborhood.
