Amtech Elevator Awarded Contract with Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2003

Amtech Elevator Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), has been awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). The contract includes modernization of 13 elevators, as well as maintenance and repair services for 14 elevators and four escalators, at SEPTA's headquarters located at 1234 Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

"SEPTA is committed to offering safe and convenient public transportation systems for its residents and visitors," said Eric Lazear, president of Amtech Elevator Services. "We are pleased to serve such a renowned organization. Amtech looks forward to providing state-of-the-art modernization and maintenance, as well as bringing our expertise and commitment to high-quality service, to SEPTA's 20-story building," he added.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is the nation's fifth-largest public transportation system. The Authority is an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, created by the State Legislature, and is a vital regional asset. SEPTA's service area includes the heavily populated southeastern Pennsylvania counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia, which encompass approximately 2,200 square miles. The SEPTA system serves over one-half million customers daily and provides over 300 million passenger trips annually.

Amtech Elevator Services is the largest independent elevator service company in the United States. Amtech operates regional offices and warehouses across the country from headquarters in Los Angeles, and serves such major metropolitan areas as Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, DC.

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 62,000 employees, ABM provides janitorial, parking, engineering, security, lighting, elevator, mechanical and network services for thousands of commercial, industrial, institutional and retail facilities in hundreds of cities across North America. In addition to Amtech Elevator, the ABM Family of Services includes ABM Janitorial, Ampco System Parking, ABM Engineering, American Commercial Security (ACSS), Amtech Lighting, CommAir Mechanical and ABM Service Network.