Spotlights

2019 Women in Building Services: Gail Morelle, Christa Construction LLC

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? Promoted to vice president. What trend(s) do you predict to dominate your industry in 2019? Additional affordable/supportive housing projects and addiction treatment facilities built. 

2019 Women in Building Services: Shohreh Waxman, SterlingRisk Insurance

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? My most notable project was to secure insurance coverage for Twenty Broad, the 29-story luxury rental tower next to the New York Stock Exchange. When a project is near, or in this case adjacent to, a high-visibility site in New York City, it is not uncommon for insurance carriers to…

2019 Women in Building Services: Jacquelyn Wind, Global Furniture Group

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? My greatest professional achievement at Global occurred at the inception of my hire. I was forewarned that the territory that I was about to inherit, hadn’t had solid representation in seven years, and that the Global “brand” would need to be introduced or renewed at our dealership partners and…

2019 Women in Building Services: Jessica Vail, The Falcon Group

What does it mean to you to be a team player?  Being a team player means working smarter, doing the right thing and going the extra mile for your colleagues. It means sometimes having to make personal sacrifices for the common goal of your team. And above all, it means…

2019 Women in Building Services: Lisa Mulligan, Town of Brookhaven and Town of Brookhaven IDA & LDC

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months?  In the past 12 months, I have been very proud to work on a series of manufacturing and distribution projects. In 2018, the Brookhaven IDA closed on support for H.A.E. Air, Inc., Creative Biolabs, Inc., United Meat Products, Inc., and United Rentals, Inc. These core manufacturing and distribution type projects are the backbone of our…

2019 Women in Building Services: Bonnie Franson, Nelson Pope Voorhis, Hudson Valley Office

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? Managing a public workshop with 200 people in attendance. Residents and business owners were empowered to express a vision for their community, and trusted that their comments would be considered during planning for the redevelopment of a rural hamlet. For this project, it was important to…

2019 Women in Building Services: Lauren Tully, C3S CoRE Consulting, Inc.

What trend(s) do you predict to dominate your industry in 2019? I believe we will see more commercial and industrial developments in 2019 with the revitalization of existing commercial warehouse properties as well as the development of new warehousing properties. This growth is necessary to support the

2019 Women in Building Services: Joy Santopietro DiNapoli, Santopietro Interiors

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? Our greatest professional achievement of the past year was working with Silverstein Properties and Corcoran Sunshine on the design of two model penthouses at the Four Seasons Private Residences — 30 Park Place in Tribeca, one of the city’s premier addresses.

2019 Women in Building Services: Barbara Kavovit, Evergreen Builders & Construction Services, Inc.

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? My novel, “Heels of Steel” about a girl from the Bronx taking the construction industry by storm will be released this June by Harper Collins, which is one of my greatest achievements

2019 Women in Building Services: Kristen Ambrosino, ACC Real Estate Services, Inc. 

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months?  This past year I had the opportunity to step into the General manager/controller position at ACC. This has been an amazing learning experience for me, as I now get to know and learn every single aspect of our commercial property and leasing firm. Being in this new position has allowed me to grow and create connections more rapidly than before, due to the fact…