2008 Build New York Award Winners Honored

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GBC Build NY Award Winners

ALBANY, NY (10/09/2008)(readMedia)-- The 2008 winners of the Build New York Awards, the statewide construction industry awards program recognizing excellence in construction management, were honored at a gala awards presentation at The Wild Center in Tupper Lake on October 4, 2008.

Sponsored by the General Building Contractors of New York State (GBC), the Build New York Award winners are selected based on outstanding management skills, imagination, perseverance under unusual and challenging circumstances, safety excellence and innovative construction techniques by the contractor/manager and the entire project team.

Christina Schneider, GBC Vice President, of Purcell Construction Corporation (Watertown), presented the Lake Placid blue granite awards.

This year's winners were:

Winner - New Project: BBL Construction Services, LLC - Albany for the Albany County Judicial Center, Albany

Winner - New Project: Bovis Lend Lease LMB, Inc. - New York City for the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Natatorium and Ice Rink, Flushing

Winner - New/Renovation Project: Leon D. DeMatteis Construction Corporation - Elmont for the Bathgate High School Educational Complex, Bronx

Winner - New Project: Lehigh Construction Group, Inc. - Orchard Park for the Frank Lloyd Wright's Rowing Boathouse, Buffalo

Winner - New/Renovation Project: The Pike Company, Inc. - Rochester for the Rehabilitation of Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca

"Everyone involved in the conception and execution of a building project, large or small, public or private, takes pride in the skill, integrity and responsibility that go into bringing a project to a successful completion," Jeffrey J. Zogg, Executive Director of the GBC, said. "This is what the Build New York Award program has come to mean and represent in the construction industry statewide," he added.

The General Building Contractors of New York State is the leading construction trade association in New York, and is the New York Building Chapter of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America. The GBC represents nearly 200 of the top construction firms in New York, and has over 300 members in total including general contractors, specialty contractors, and associate members. Visit the GBC website at www.gbcnys.agc.org.

The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) is the largest and oldest national construction trade association in the United States. AGC represents more than 35,000 firms, including 7,500 of America's leading general contractors. Visit the AGC website at www.agc.org.

Photo caption: The 2008 Build New York Awards were presented to representatives of five GBC Members. (Left to right):

Drew Langer, Leon D. DeMatteis Construction Corporation

Peter Baldwin, The Pike Company, Inc.

Bill Hickman, Bovis Lend Lease LMB, Inc.

Martin Knauss, Lehigh Construction Group, Inc.

Mike DeLima, BBL Construction Services, LLC

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