Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.—A top administrator of a New York City high-rise modular construction company will speak Thursday [April 7] at Mississippi State.
Erik Antokal’s campus visit is sponsored by the university’s building construction science program in the College of Architecture, Art and Design. Open to all, his presentation titled “High Rise Modular: New Frontiers of Scale in Offsite Construction” begins at 2 p.m. in Giles Hall’s Robert and Freda Harris Auditorium.
Antokal is director of strategic initiatives for FC Modular LLC that currently is building a Brooklyn apartment complex which, when complete, will be the world’s tallest modular high-rise. For more, see www.fcmodular.com or twitter.com/FCModular.
A Tufts University graduate, Antokal oversees the company’s external communications and internal investments. He previously was the company’s workforce and partnerships manager and, prior to that, commercial revitalization program manager with NYC’s small business services department.
Part of the College of Architecture, Art and Design, MSU’s building construction science program is one of only two studio-based construction programs in the U.S. For more, visit www.caad.msstate.edu, facebook.com/CAADatMSU, twitter.com/CAADatMSU and http://tinyurl.com/CAADatMSUYouTube.
Information on the BCS program is found at facebook.com/MississippiStateBuildingConstructionScience.
For more information about Antokal’s program and visit, contact BCS program director Craig Capano, also the college’s Roy Anderson Endowed Professor, at 662-325-0732 or ccapano@caad.msstate.edu.
Giles Hall, home of the college and School of Architecture, is located at the intersection of College View Drive and Barr Avenue.
MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.