Smeal's Business Building Wins Construction Partnering Award
Smeal's Business Building Wins Construction Partnering Award
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (March 28, 2006)—The Business Building, home to Penn State's Smeal College of Business, won a major partnering award this month for the construction company that built it.
At its annual national convention in Palm Springs, Calif., the Associated General Contractors of America (ACG) presented Gilbane Building Co. with a 2006 Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Special Recognition Award for the company's work on the Business Building.
The Smeal project was the only nongovernmental structure to win a Black Award this year and only the second such winner in the award's history.
"This award is a tremendous honor because it recognizes everyone involved in the construction of this building," said Ginger Breon, director of administrative and information servicesat Smeal, who joined representatives from Gilbane and Robert A.M. Stern Architects to accept the award. "Contractors, architects, college and University administrators, friends and alumni—they're all represented in this award for their role in the construction of our new home, which is already having a remarkably positive impact on the college."
The $68 million, 210,000-square-foot Business Building is the largest academic building on the Penn State campus. It's home to all of the college's resources, featuring faculty offices, classrooms, laboratories, a Trading Room, a café, and more. The building was designed by Stern to incorporate the latest technology in fostering an environment in which cross-discipline learning and research thrive.
Gilbane Building Co. is one of the largest construction and program managers in the United States, and provides a full slate of facilities-related services for clients in the higher-ed, K-12, sciences, transportation, healthcare, convention/cultural, government, mission-critical, corporate, sports/recreation, and criminal justice markets.
The Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Awards celebrate successful partnerships and years of outstanding results from partnering collaborations. Partnering promotes innovation and provides best practices among all team members for the achievement of mutual goals and objectives.
AGC is the largest and oldest national construction trade association in the United States, representing more than 32,000 firms, including 7,000 of America's leading general contractors, and over 11,000 specialty-contracting firms.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
