Shown (from left) are: LERA’s Elias Matar, partner; Carrie Villani director of marketing; and Fadi Asmar, marketing coordinator. Photo credit: Ashok Sinha

New York, NY Leslie E. Robertson Associates (LERA) was awarded the People’s Choice Award from the Society for Marketing for Professional Services New York chapter (SMPS-NY) at their annual Awards Gala for their Marketing Communications Award (MCA) program. LERA also won the MCA in Brand Identity for LERA’s new website, brochures and other promotional items that feature the firm’s structural engineering services. The People’s Choice award was voted for by the attendees of the gala. Elias Matar, partner, Carrie Villani, marketing director and Fadi Asmar, marketing coordinator were responsible for LERA’s marketing materials design and implementation and were on hand to accept the awards. Elias Matar thanked SMPS while accepting the award, “We’re very excited about winning the Brand Identity award and would like to thank SMPS and the judges for this award. Carrie and Fadi, who are standing next to me, took the lead in redesigning our website and promotional items to reflect the quality of our work.  They deserve most of the credit, and I would like to thank them for a job very well done.” The SMPS-NY MCA Awards honor firms in the AEC for their outstanding marketing initiatives that exemplify excellence and achieve positive results for their firms and are selected by a panel of industry judges.

LERA is an M/WBE structural engineering firm providing services to architects, owners, contractors, and developers. Since their founding in 1923, they have designed numerous landmark projects across the world, and established a strong reputation for design and technical excellence. Today, LERA’s talented professionals continue the tradition of creating innovative, constructible, and economical structural designs. Headquartered in New York City, LERA also operates branch offices in Mumbai, India and Shanghai, China.