FOR RELEASE: Immediate, Tuesday, December 11, 2001

Magazine Grants Award of Merit to Baruch College Project

New York Construction News� Best of 2001Program Honors Vertical Campus

NEW YORK � The Baruch College Academic Complex �is actually four buildings in one. If it were four buildings, they would consist of a performing arts center, a classroom building, an athletic facility and a student activity center. However, since the project is in the middle of Manhattan, one of its biggest challenges was combining the four buildings into one as a vertical campus.�

That�s how the F.W. Dodge New York Construction News characterized the challenges of the Baruch College Academic Complex, as the magazine announced a 2001 Award of Merit to the project, financed and constructed by the Dormitory Authority for the City University of New York.

New York Construction News, a McGraw-Hill publication, began its �Best of� awards program five years ago to recognize creative solutions to project challenges. This year�s annual award was dedicated to the �Construction Heroes at Ground Zero,� people who volunteered during the first few days after the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. Other awards in the �institutional� category were New York University�s dormitory and athletic facility and the Thaw Conservation Center at the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Of the Baruch Academic Complex, the magazine noted, �This project was recognized for its solutions to complex challenges. The jury cited this four-in-one vertical campus for its aesthetics and singular accomplishment of one building being able to serve so many needs.�

Dormitory Authority project team members are Project Manager III Nicholas D�Ambrosio, Project Manager II Mary Anderson, Field Representative IV Wayne Markowitz, Field Representative III Anthony Botta and Field Representative/Secretarial III Carla Livingston. Managing Director Douglas M. Van Vleck heads the Authority�s Office of Construction. Others on the development team are:

Kohl Pedersen Fox Associates of New York City, architect
Castro-Blanco Picioneri of New York City, associate architect
TDX Construction Corp. of New York City, construction manager
Weidlinger Associates of New York City, structural engineer
Cosentini Associates of New York City, mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer
Vollmer Associates of New York City, site and civil engineer
Urban Foundations Engineers of Elmhurst, foundation contractor
Shroid Construction Inc. of Long Island City, concrete superstructure contractor
L.K. Comstock & Co. Inc. of Maspeth and J.H. Electric of NY Inc. of Huntington, electrical contractors
Canron of Conklin, structural steel contractor; and
Tratoros Construction Inc. of Brooklyn, general contractor.

The magazine will hold its awards presentation on December 14th at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Broadway. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund, founded by the Citizens Scholarship Foundation of America (CSFA) of St. Peter, Minn., and the Lumina Foundation for Education.

The fund�s objective is to provide financial assistance for post-secondary education to the children and spouses of the victims of the attacks on America, including employees, visitors, relief workers, firefighters and police officers. CSFA has pledged that 100 percent of all contributions to this fund will support undergraduate education at an accredited U.S.-based college, university or vocational or technical school. The goal of the fund is to raise and distribute at least $100 million and to continue these efforts for as long as there is need from the families of the attack victims.

For more information, contact Press Officer Claudia Hutton at (518) 257 3382, or CHutton@dasny.org, or go to the New York Construction News Website, at http://www.newyorkconstructionnews.com

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