KBE Building Corporation Donates $25,000 To Hood College Endowment Fund

Online, June 14, 2012 (Newswire.com) - An award-winning commercial construction firm has established an endowment fund that will partially support a head tennis coach position at Hood College.

KBE Building Corporation (KBE) (www.kbebuilding.com), located in Columbia, Md., and Farmington, Conn., will donate $25,000 over five years to the KBE Tennis Coach Endowment Fund.

The firm has had a long history with the college, and recently completed the second phase of Hood's $20 million campus-wide upgrade to its facilities. This summer KBE will begin the construction of six new tennis courts and renovations to the college's Huntsinger Aquatic Center. The project is scheduled for completion in late August.

"We have a long-standing corporate policy of giving back to the communities in which we work," said Mike Kolakowski, KBE's president and CEO and a principal owner of the firm. "In the past, we've supported the Frederick Food Bank in recognition of our relationship with Hood, and now our team is very excited to be involved in this endowment-it's an enduring legacy of which everyone is proud."

"We are grateful for KBE's commitment to this campus and community," said Hood President Ronald J. Volpe. "This endowment will support us in our efforts to continually support our recreational, intramural and student athletic programs."

Ronald J. Volpe, Hood College President, and Eric Brown, KBE Senior Vice President & Principal

Chuck Mann, Vice President for Finance and Treasurer, Nancy Gillece, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Allan Kleban, KBE Vice President for Business Development, Ronald J. Volpe, Hood College President, Eric Brown, KBE Senior Vice President & Principal, Suzie Smith, Hood College Director of Corporate and Foundation Giving and Assistant Tennis Coach

About KBE Building Corporation:

Regionally located in Farmington, Connecticut and Columbia, Maryland, KBE Building Corporation is a full-service, single-source commercial construction company strategically positioned to serve the Eastern and Mid-Atlantic U.S. Founded in 1959 and incorporated in 1966, the firm provides preconstruction, construction management, design-build, and general contracting services to clients in the, educational, federal, corporate, seniors, hospitality, health care, institutional, and retail markets. KBE has managed more than $2.3 billion in construction volume over the last decade, and is ranked among Engineering News-Record magazine's top 400 construction companies nationally.

KBE provides preconstruction, construction management, design-build and general contracting services to East Coast clients in the education, retail, senior living and health care, corporate and hospitality markets. The firm is ranked among Engineering News-Record magazine's top 400 construction companies nationally.