Robert F. Borg, Chairman, founder and one of the owners of the company, graduated New York University with a Bachelor of Civil Engineer Degree and after service in the US Navy studied for the Degree of Juris Doctor. As a lawyer and member of the New York Bar, and as a Professional Engineer, he has utilized his knowledge and experience during the entire 50 years of the company's existence. He is the author of numerous articles and sections of handbooks on construction. Most notably he is the author of the section entitled, Construction Management in the McGraw-Hill Building and Construction Handbook and is also the author of the section entitled, Technical and Business Practices in the McGraw-Hill Handbook of Temporary Structures in Construction. He has taught Construction Management as an adjunct professor at New York University, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.

Borg is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and is the second member of the Society in its history who has been awarded the grade of Master Builder from the Society's Construction Institute. He is currently Chairman of the Committee on Social and Environmental Concerns in Construction. This Committee issued a report on the Rebuilding of the World Trade Center in August of 2003 that was published by the American Society of Civil Engineers Construction Institute. As a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, he is past-Chairman of the Construction Division and of the Committee on Contract Administration.

Borg is also a mediator and arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and is past-Chairman of the National Construction Disputes Resolution Committee of the Association. Borg has served as a mediator and arbitrator in many cases involving the construction industry. He helped draft the Construction Industry Rules of the American Arbitration Association.

The Committee on Social and Environmental Concerns in Construction of which he was the founding Chairman in 1975 and of which he is currently once again the Chairman, has done pioneering work in introducing to the civil engineering profession the construction problems involving the environment. Currently the Committee is working on disseminating information about the green building process using LEED (Leadership In Energy And Environmental Design) and is also investigating problems concerning mold and other troublesome problems in construction. His biography appears in "Who's Who in America", "Who's Who in the World", and "Who's Who in Science and Industry."

 

Samuel C. Florman, Chairman, was born in New York City, where he attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. He studied engineering at Dartmouth College, earning a bachelor of science degree (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and a Civil Engineering degree from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. He also holds a masters degree in English Literature from Columbia University. From 1945 to 1946 he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps supervising construction in the Philippines and Truk. He is a licensed professional engineer in New York State, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of many other professional societies.

His community involvement includes past chairmanship of the Board of Governors of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, past presidency of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers, and service as an Overseer of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. He is currently Trustee of the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedic Institute, and a Trustee of the New York Hall of Science. In 2002 he received the United Hospital Fund's Distinguished Trustee Award.

Sam Florman has also had an active career as an author. He has published six books and over 250 articles dealing with the relationship between technology and the general culture. The best known of his works, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, has sold widely, been reissued in a second edition, and used as a text in college courses. He has been a regular columnist for "Technology Review" and "Harper's", and has written numerous reviews for "The New York Times Book Review." He has spoken at many engineering schools and professional society meetings, and discussed professional topics on television and radio.

His writings have earned him a number of honors and awards. They include: The Stevens Honor Award from the Stevens Institute of Technology (1976); the Ralph Coats Roe Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1982); the Robert Fletcher Award from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering (1983); the Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions furthering Engineering Professionalism from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1990); the Sterling Olmsted Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (1993); and the History and Heritage Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (2002). he has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees by Manhattan College and Clarkson University. He has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and selected for Eminent Engineer Membership of Tau Beta Pi Columbia University.

In 1995 Florman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and subsequently has served on several committees, boards and commissions of the Academy and of the National Research Council.

 

Since 1987, Joseph Zelazny has expertly engineered the remarkable growth of Kreisler Borg Florman, a firm that finds itself today capable of undertaking the most challenging engineering projects yet to be built. As President of KBF, he oversees all of the firm's operations with a portfolio of construction contracts valued at over $350 million.

Zelazny arrived in the United States from his native Poland in 1962, and commenced his professional career as a structural engineer with Weidlinger Associates. After four years of performing design work. He became Weidlinger's resident engineer and later its resident architect. His work in these capacities culminated with design participation and construction supervision for the Julliard School of Music at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City billed as "The World's first conservatory for all the performing arts." and recorded in the Architectural Record in 1970, "one of the most complicated buildings ever made."

Zelazny was named executive vice president of KBF in 1987, for whom, among other project he directed construction of the Cove Club Condominiums and North Cove Yacht Harbor at Battery Park City.

In December of 1993, he was named KBF's president and assumed responsibility for extensive New York City School Construction Authority (SCA) Programs, New York City Housing Authority programs and ongoing construction of housing for the elderly under the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's 202 Program.

Under Zelazny's direction, KBF continued to expand, taking on such challenging projects as the rehabilitation of almost 5,000 apartments in four major housing complexes in the Bronx and Manhattan; and the upgrading of hundreds of schools in the borough of Queens, as well as selected work in schools throughout New York's five boroughs under various programs.

In addition to the large work force required to manage these complex programs, under Zelazny's guidance KBF continued to construct a series of high rise residential towers in Manhattan, including The Sagamore, The Madison Belvedere, The Metropolis, The Lyric, and The Caroline for such prestigious New York City developers as The Related Companies, Rose Associates and Pan Am Equities.

An active member of the Board of Directors of the New York Building Congress, Zelazny has also recently co-authored, with Robert T. Ratay, "The Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook." published by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. He holds a degree in civil engineering from the Polytechnical Engineering Institute of Wroclaw, Poland.