The Contractors’ Association of Greater New York (CAGNY) recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with an annual meeting dinner for its member companies and their employees at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan. From left: Edward J. Malloy, retiring president of the Building & Construction Trades Council and Raymond G. McGuire, Managing Director of CAGNY. Photo courtesy of The Berman Group, Inc.

Students from the Bronx recently participated in ACE Team #17, part of the Architecture, Construction, Engineering Mentor Program, a program that relies on mentors and professionals from leading design and construction firms who devote their time and energy into exposing students to a broad range of people, projects, and career opportunities in the construction industry. Pictured are high school students from the Bronx with their mentors from Tishman Speyer and Turner Construction.

The Subcontractors Trade Association recently held a special Technology Fair for subcontractors that included seasoned industry experts and an interactive technology exhibition and took place at Terrace on the Park, located at 52-11 111th Street in Queens, New York. Pictured from left are: Publisher of New York Construction, Seth Horowitz, Executive Director, STA, Ron Berger, and Chairman, STA, Technology Committee, John Rapaport. Photo courtesy of The Berman Group, Inc.

The Northeast Green Building Conference 2009 recently took place at the Clarion Hotel located at 3 Watervliet Avenue Ext. in Albany, New York where New York State First Lady Michelle Paige Patterson addressed the conference on the “Greening the Executive Mansion” initiative and broke the news that New York’s Executive Mansion was awarded LEED Gold by the US Green Building Council. Pictured from left are: Commissioner John C. Egan, NYS Offi ce of General Services, Anna Campas, LEED AP, New York State Offi ce of General Services, Michelle Paige Patterson, New York’s First Lady, Executive Director, US Green Building Council New York Upstate Chapter, LEED AP, Wayne Williams, CSO, LEED AP, U.W. Marx Construction, Troy, New York.