FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New York, NY, (September 8, 2008).   VVA Project Managers & Consultants, and NYLS faculty, staff and project team members celebrated the "topping out" of steel on the law school’s new 235,000 sq. ft. classroom, library and event facility located at West Broadway and Leonard Street in downtown Manhattan. This noteworthy event, held on Monday, August 11th, was commemorated with a special steel beam signed by the participants of the occasion before being hoisted into place with an American flag.

This celebration marks an exciting milestone for both the project team and for the New York Law School as the new facility nears completion. Curt Epstein, VVA Senior Associate and on site Project Manager for NY Law School commented, "Considering the challenges in doing top down construction, we bottomed out and subsequently topped out within two weeks of each other." The project required the construction of a complex perimeter slurry wall and basement bathtub in order to achieve four floors of programmed spaced underground and five floors above ground. Construction is expected to be complete in January 2008 with NY Law School taking occupancy shortly thereafter. Kim Sampson, VVA Associate and one of the key Project Managers for the project added, "‘Topping out’ was a uniquely exciting milestone for the NYLS project.  The long months of construction, until now, have been contained under the ground with limited visibility to the general public.  Now that the steel structure is completed above grade, the community is catching the first glimpse of the building’s skeleton that is truly one of a kind."