Jerome Belson, chairman of Jerome Belson Enterprises and president of the Associated Builders & Owners of Greater New York, has been inducted to the New York State Builders Association Hall of Fame. Jerome Belson has been active in New York City's Housing and Real Estate Industries for over five decades developing and managing major affordable housing developments including: Roosevelt Island, Independence Plaza and Metro North Riverview Houses. His company manages over 15,000 housing units throughout New York City.

Dickie Sykes, assistant vice president of diversity and community affairs at AMEC, has been named the Minority Enterprise Development Advocate of the Year for 2003 by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Under Sykes's leadership, AMEC has awarded more than $900 million in contracts to minority and women-owned businesses. Sykes plans, develops, coordinates, and supervises affirmative action, anti-harassment prevention, and diversity awareness training seminars for AMEC, an international engineering services and construction management firm.

Arbonies King Vlock, has promoted Leigh Anne Jones to Associate Principal, the Connecticut architectural firm's first. Previously, Jones had led the firm's work on the renovation and addition to Buley Library at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, serving as Project Manager. The Branford, Conn., firm, led by the husband-wife design team of Sandra Vlock and Glenn Arbonies, has received the 2003 Emerging Architectural Firm from AIA Connecticut.

David Cooper, P.E., CEM, has been appointed as Managing Director of the New York office of Flack + Kurtz. Cooper, also a member of the Flack + Kurtz Board of Directors, has served the firm for more than 30 years, most recently as Director in the New York office of the national design firm. Cooper will continue to be directly involved with clients and projects, in addition to his management role.

Robert Borg, Founder and Chairman of Kreisler Borg Florman General Construction Company, has earned the title of Master Builder from the Construction Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Borg has served the industry for nearly 60 years, including landmark projects such as Corinthian Tower, a 58-story mixed-use luxury condominium in Manhattan and the $100-million West Queens High School in Long Island City.

James Fahey, P.E., S.E., a senior structural engineer with O'Dea, Lynch, Abbattista Consulting Engineers, P.C. (OLA) has received his Illinois Structural Engineer's License. Mr. Fahey, who received his New York State P.E. license in 2001 recently passed the Structural II exam which has a national pass rate of only 14%. This further extends the structural expertise of OLA, a 50-person consulting engineering firm located in Hawthorne, New York.

Vincent Pucillo has joined El Taller Colaborativo, PC (ETC), as Director of Interior Design. Pucillo brings 30 years of experience in interior design to the full-service architectural, engineering, planning, and construction management firm based in Newark.

Richard Dressel, business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 164, has been honored as the Humanitarian of the Year at the Oakland Mayor's Ball in New Jersey. The award recognizes Dressel's ongoing support of a wide range of charitable construction and fundraising projects throughout Bergen County.

Thomas Lukas has been named Vice President of Operations for Garden State Brickface, Windows & Siding, a building resurfacing and remodeling company based in Roselle, N.J. and serving the tri-state area. Lukas has been with the firm for 25 years, most recently serving as Director of Operations and Operations Manager.

Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering, P.C. (EYP) has promoted Chris Gaylord to Associate. Gaylord is a construction supervisor, and has worked on projects with Montclair State University, Monmouth University, and the National Park Service. EYP Mission Critical Facilities has promoted Richard Greco to Director of Critical Facilities Assurance. Greco will develop and implement new strategic initiatives and oversee the group's finances.

Cannon Design's offices in New York have made a host of promotions and additions. In Buffalo, the firm has added Richard Friedson, AIA, an accomplished building designer, as Principal. It has appointed Kevin Opp, Carol Siracuse, AIA, and Thomas Tyson, PE, SE, to Associate Vice President. Opp works on marketing and corporate standards, Siracuse designs public and higher education projects, and Tyson is a structural engineer. Roland Coleman II, Ralph McCormick, CIPE, and Brian Sitzman, AIA, have been appointed to Vice President. Coleman works on building design, McCormick on plumbing and life-safety system design, and Sitzman on healthcare projects. In New York, the firm has appointed Salwa Zakhary as Associate Vice President. She is a project manager.

Ralph Orlando, P.E., Executive Vice President and Site Development Division Director for Schoor DePalma, has been honored as the 2003 New Jersey Civil Engineer of the Year by the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE). In addition, Soheila Rahbari, P.E., a Senior Project Manager for the engineering and consulting firm, was selected as the President-Elect for the New Jersey ASCE chapter.

Carlisle Paul, field representative for the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Cooperation Trust Fund, has been elected to the board of directors of the Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation.

James Stenqvist, CPD, the founder and president of the Connecticut chapter of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers, was honored with the ASPE Region 1 Chairman's Award. Stenqvist is Chief Plumbing and Fire Protection Engineer of Fletcher-Thompson, Inc., an architecture, engineering, and interior design firm with offices in Connecticut and New Jersey.