In honor of these men and women, the New York Building Foundation, a charitable subsidiary of the New York Building Congress, established the World Trade Center Memorial Fund. To date, the Foundation has raised more
than $340,000 from member employees, firms, and other industry colleagues. Most of the donated funds have already been distributed to surviving family members of building industry workers who perished on September 11, 2001.

In addition, the Fund donated $25,000 each to the United Firefighters Association’s 911 Fund, the Port Authority Police Department WTC Disaster Fund and the Building Trades Families Relief Fund at the Building Congress Remembrance and Recognition Dinner in October of last year. Also at the event, a $25,000 check was donated by Jack Rudin, Chairman of Rudin Management Company, Inc. to a fund for the families of fallen New York City Police Officers.

A portion of the Fund's remaining contributions will be used for work site memorials to be given to each of the Building Congress member firms and trade unions that lost employees in the attack. Donations to the Fund have been received from all sectors of the building industry in New York City and from as far away as Honolulu and Japan. Among the generous contributors to the Fund are: A. Esteban & Company, Inc.; the American Institute of Architects and its U.S. affiliates; Arup Service New York, Ltd; HLW International LLP; the Building Congress & Exchange of Metropolitan Baltimore; Crystal Window & Door Systems, Ltd.; EMCOR Group, Inc.; Flack & Kurtz Consulting Engineers; Forest Electric; Gensler Architects; Parsons Transportation Group, Inc.; and, the Building Congress, which started the Fund with a $50,000 contribution.

“The inspiration for this fund was the overwhelming desire expressed by many of our colleagues to help those in our industry and beyond who were harmed by this senseless attack,” said New York Building Foundation Chairman John F. Hennessy III. “We are grateful for the generosity of all of the Fund’s donors and heartened by the knowledge that our gifts provided some measure of support for the families of victims.”