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Posted: May 22, 2009
Israel Bonds to honor Lilker of Lilker Assoc.
The architects, designers & engineers division of state of Israel Bonds will honor Bruce Lilker, president of Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers, at its annual luncheon on Tuesday, June 9, at 11:30 a.m. at The St. Regis.
Lilker founded his firm in 1985 and built it into one ions in the greater New York area. Its clients include the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Aviation Authority, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Port Authority of N.Y. and N.J., NYC School Construction Authority, Bank of America, Calvin Klein, Citigroup, Revlon, SONY, Tommy Hilfiger, and Beth Israel, Maimonides, Montefiore, and North Shore Long Island Jewish medical centers.
Chairmen of the Israel Bonds luncheon are Leonard Koven of Atkinson Koven Feinberg Engineers, Douglas Mass and Marvin Mass of Cosentini Associates, Kenneth Drucker of HOK New York, Barry LePatner of LePatner & Associates, Stephen Karafiol of Tishman Construction Corp. of New York, and Serge Budzyn of Lilker Assoc.
Lilker takes pride in the firm's religious, communal, cultural, and educational projects. They include the Intrepid Air & Space Museum and Irish Hunger Memorial in Manhattan, the Museum at Ellis Island, the Sephardic Community Center in Brooklyn, the Young Israel of Woodmere and Hebrew Academy of Long Beach on Long Island, and Columbia, Cornell, Fordham, Pace, and New York universities.
Lilker serves on various committees of the New York Building Congress and American Council of Engineering Companies of New York. In 1993, he was cited as an "Alumni Achiever Under 40" by Cooper Union, his alma mater, at which he created an endowment to award annual scholarships to promising mechanical engineering students.
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