Patricia Lancaster Joins NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate
Posted October 31, 2011
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Former New York City Buildings Commissioner Patricia J. Lancaster has been named a clinical professor at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, where she will teach courses on construction management, infrastructure, and other key areas of the real estate curriculum.
Most recently, Lancaster served as president of The Lancaster Group, a capital program management and consulting firm that she founded in 2008.
As buildings commissioner from 2002 to 2008, she was responsible for setting local construction standards, enforcing the building code and zoning resolution for more than 975,000 buildings, and regulating New York City's $35 billion per year construction industry. She overhauled processes and procedures within the organization to bring much-needed transparency, accountability, and efficiency into its daily operations.
Prior to becoming buildings commissioner, Lancaster was a vice president at LCOR, Inc., where she oversaw public/private development for the Northeast region with a portfolio of $2 billion. As Columbia University's assistant vice president of planning, design and construction, she completed a five-year $850 million capital program.
In her capacity as the New York City Department of General Services' deputy commissioner for design and construction from 1994 to 1996, she created the successful project management-based structure that exists today.
Lancaster earned her B.A. in art and theology from Linfield College in 1975. She went on to earn her M. Arch. from the University of Washington in 1981.
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