ABM Engineering Services Contracts With Verizon.

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2002

ABM Engineering Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), has been awarded a multi-year contract with Verizon. Incorporating more than three million square feet of property, the contract includes operation and maintenance of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems at 28 Verizon facilities throughout New York, including locations in Brooklyn, Long Island, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island and Syracuse.

"The ABM Engineering team welcomes and appreciates the opportunity to serve Verizon's facilities in New York," said Jim Scranton, president of ABM Engineering Services. "We look forward to providing Verizon staff and management with state-of-the-art technology and engineering service, while ensuring a convenient and comfortable operation for its customers," he added.

ABM Engineering Services is one of the nation's largest providers of on-site operating engineers, with over 2,500 employees nationwide. ABM Engineering has offices in most major cities, including Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco and Tampa.

ABM Industries Incorporated is the largest facility services contractor listed on the New York Stock Exchange. With annualized revenues in excess of $2.1 billion and more than 65,000 employees, ABM provides air conditioning, elevator, engineering, janitorial, lighting, parking, security and related services for thousands of commercial, industrial, institutional and retail facilities in hundreds of cities across North America. In addition to ABM Engineering Services, the ABM Family of Services includes ABM Janitorial, Ampco System Parking, American Commercial Security (ACSS), Amtech Elevator, Amtech Lighting, CommAir Mechanical and Lakeside Building Maintenance.