McGraw-Hill Construction's Websites and Engineering News-Record Magazine Win Four Neal Awards

American Business Media names Engineering News-Record 'Best News Coverage' winner, ArchitecturalRecord.com and GreenSourceMag.com are the 'Best Websites,' and ArchitecturalRecord.com wins 'Best Online Article or Series' award

NEW YORK, March 17, 2008 — McGraw-Hill Construction's Engineering News-Record, the construction industry's leading source for business and technical news, received this year's Jesse H. Neal Business Journalism Award for "Best News Coverage" at the American Business Media's 54th annual Neal Awards held Friday, March 14th. ENR was selected for its coverage of the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, MN. McGraw-Hill Construction, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, also took home top awards for three of four Website categories, a major emphasis of this year's awards ceremony, including ArchitecturalRecord.com and GreenSourceMag.com as 2008 Neal Award winners for "Best Website." ArchitecturalRecord.com also won the award for "Best Online Article or Series" for its interview with Frank Stella, an American painter and architectural artist and was a Grand Neal Award Finalist, the top honor bestowed.

Called "the Pulitzer Prize of the Business Media," the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Awards recognize editorial excellence in business-to-business publications. The 54th annual awards were presented at a lunch hosted by American Business Media at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

"Engineering News-Record and McGraw-Hill Construction's portfolio of Websites-GreenSourceMag.com and ArchitecturalRecord.com in particular- aim to provide the most relevant, accurate, timely and information-rich content to construction industry professionals," said Norbert W. Young, Jr., president, McGraw-Hill Construction. "It is a great honor to be recognized by the business media community and our industry peers as Neal Award winners. While these awards recognize well-deserved editorial excellence, I would also like to recognize all who work tirelessly at McGraw-Hill Construction to ensure quality behind the scenes, including our production, operations, design, technology, and sales teams. Congratulations on a job well done and for continuing to demonstrate to the industry that McGraw-Hill Construction truly does connect people, projects, and products," added Mr. Young.

"GreenSource, our "newcomer," continues to raise the bar and provide exceptional editorial," said Robert Ivy, vice president and editorial director for McGraw-Hill Construction and editor in chief of Architectural Record. "Architectural Record and Engineering News-Record have a long, rich history, yet we continue to keep up with the times and what our readers expect from us. I am very proud of the editorial staff of our publications and the quality news they provide to the industry in print and online."

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