Construction.com Honored in min Magazine's New Media 50.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2001

Construction Industry's Leading Portal Rated Sixth

Among Publishing's Top People, Places and Things Online

Construction.com, the most comprehensive online marketplace for construction professionals and part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), has been ranked sixth in min magazine's `New Media 50' appearing in the publication's Spring/Summer 2001 issue. The New Media 50 represents the publishing industry's top people, places and things online.

This year's edition of the New Media 50 was min magazine's second review of the online media industry. The purpose of the edition is to profile the sites, publishers and technologies moving the industry along paths that are both thoughtful and careful.

Said min magazine about construction.com, "If the B2B Web dream is to move part of the workplace online, to let industries conduct their everyday chores on this faster-cheaper-better organized medium, then more sites should look and feel like this one, far and away the most popular destination for the commercial building industry."

Min magazine also commended construction.com for its interoperability, content management, its seven productive revenue streams and its `staggering' potential for growth.

"We are honored that the editors of min magazine included us in their list of New Media 50 and rated us as high as they did," said Norbert Young, president of McGraw-Hill's Construction Information Group and construction.com. "When we launched construction.com three years ago, we made a conscious decision to stay close to our customers and how they do their jobs. We never bought into the Internet hype, believing it would cause a cataclysmic and immediate change within the construction industry. Rather, we saw the Internet as simply a tremendous tool to help architects, engineers and contractors do their jobs faster, better and cheaper. Understanding the construction process and the information needs of our audiences has allowed us to thrive while others have faltered."

Construction.com delivers industry intelligence and interactive solutions by leveraging the content of The Construction Information Group: F.W. Dodge, Sweet's, Engineering News-Record, Architectural Record, and Design-Build, The McGraw-Hill Companies' leading editorial brands in construction. Besides serving as the point of convergence for those brands, strategic alliances forged by construction.com (namely BuildPoint, e-Builder, Ironmax, Marshall & Swift and The Blue Book) allow users to manage projects and bids, solicit quotes, initiate e-commerce and buy plans, all through the site.

"It is very exciting to receive this honor from min magazine, the leading magazine for media buying agencies, national advertisers and the publishing community," said Donald R. Berry, Senior Director of Sales for construction.com. "More and more advertisers are discovering that Web-based media programs using construction.com combine both powerful branding and focused ad targeting with immediate feedback on results."

Attracting 350,000 unique visitors per month, the site hosts a database of 500,000 projects and 60,000 construction products.

Min magazine is a publication of Media Industry Newsletter and PBI Media, LLC.

About construction.com

Construction.com is the industry marketplace that enables construction professionals to do their job faster, better and cheaper. Building on The McGraw-Hill Companies' heritage as the world's premier information provider to the $1.7 trillion commercial construction industry, construction.com uses the Internet to help its customers to get the latest industry intelligence and interactive solutions that help professional decision-makers do their jobs successfully. By leveraging the powerful content of The McGraw-Hill Companies' leading brands, including F.W. Dodge, Sweet's, Engineering News-Record, Architectural Record, and Design-Build, construction.com integrates unmatched market intelligence, unique project management tools, and end-to-end access to the construction community. Construction.com employs more than 1,700 professionals around the world.

About The McGraw-Hill Companies

Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies is a global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in financial services, education and business-to-business information through leading brands such as Standard & Poor's, BusinessWeek and McGraw-Hill Education. The Corporation has more than 300 offices in 33 countries. Sales in 2000 were $4.3 billion. Additional information is available at www.mcgraw-hill.com.