Slain consultant mourned.Murdered building code consultant, Elizabeth Lochtefeld, will be remembered for her expertise and professionalism. Lochtefeld, 44, who sold her business two years ago, was found slain at her rented Nantucket cottage last week. She will be missed by the industry. As the founder and President of CODE, Inc., a New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. based architectural consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , Lochtefeld grew the company from a home-based business to a multimillion dollar organization over a 15-year period. In April 2002, she sold the business to her associates. She has been the President of Grove House Inc. since 1995, a cooperative housing cooperative housing n. an arrangement in which an association or corporation owns a group of housing units and the common areas for the use of all the residents. corporation in Greenwich Village Greenwich Village (grĕn`ĭch), residential district of lower Manhattan, New York City, extending S from 14th St. to Houston St. and W from Washington Square to the Hudson River. , guiding it from the verge of bankruptcy to comfortable solvency. "In this business there are a lot of phonies and you can't always trust them, but Beth was very well respected and very intelligent," said Fatma Amer, Deputy Commissioner of Department of Buildings. "Beth was on the top of the list of those to trust." Helping architects through the myriad of codes and paperwork necessary to work in the city was her niche. "Beth picked up the codes and zoning issues very fast," Amer said. "She had the knowledge of the flow of forms through the building department and she advised her clients of the procedures." "I knew Beth for over 10 years. I hated to see her go this way," said Amer. "We are all going to miss her." Lochtefeld also gave her time and money to philanthropic causes, including being an angel investor An individual who invests his or her own money in a private company, which is typically a startup. An angel investor is not an employee or member of a bank, venture capital firm or other financial institution that normally makes such investments. behind Grassroots Event Marketing, and has been involved with the University of Dreams University of Dreams (also known as UOD) is an American corporation, specializing in running fee-based summer internship programs around the world. The company is based in Los Gatos, California, and has 43 full-time employees (as of October 2, 2007). , which produces all-inclusive summer internship programs for college students. At the University of Dreams Lochtefeld consulted on best practices, financial and legal aspects, and assisted the company in the identification of new corporate clients. Lochtefeld was in the University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame graduating class of 1982. Those who knew her best refrained from discussing her death or her life in fear it would interfere with the ongoing police investigation. |
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