McGraw-Hill Construction Media Wins Pluckie Award for Best Community Marketing

New York – September 29, 2008 – McGraw-Hill Construction, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), has received a Pluckie Award for Best Community Marketing. The award was announced at the Pluck Socialize 2008 Customer Conference on September 25 in Austin, TX. McGraw-Hill Construction media was honored for its social media leadership in the marketing and promotion of its community features, its community design, and its usage of promotional widgets.

“We are very excited to have received this award,” said Norbert W. Young, president, McGraw-Hill Construction. “Our media team is dedicated to excellence for our users in this cutting-edge space, and this award affirms that commitment to excellence and acknowledges our team’s success.”

McGraw-Hill Construction’s media websites include ArchitecturalRecord.com, GreenSourceMag.com, ENR.com, and 11 regional publication websites. These websites complement McGraw-Hill Construction’s leading industry publications Architectural Record, GreenSource, and Engineering-News Record, and offer enhanced community features such as blogs, widgets, forums and group photo galleries.

Each year, Pluck Socialize brings together leaders in online publishing, marketing and retail, and the Pluckie Awards showcase the best social media implementation and innovation.

About McGraw-Hill Construction
McGraw-Hill Construction connects people, projects and products across the design and construction industry. For more than a century, the Company has remained North America’s leading provider of construction project information, plans and specifications, product information, industry news, and industry trends and forecasts. In print and online, the Company offers a variety of tools, applications, and resources that easily integrate with its customers’ workflows. Backed by the power of Dodge, Sweets, Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record, GreenSource and 11 regional publications, McGraw-Hill Construction serves more than one million customers within the $4.6 trillion global construction community. To learn more, visit www.construction.com.

About The McGraw-Hill Companies
Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a leading global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands including Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, BusinessWeek and J.D. Power and Associates. The Corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2007 were $6.8 billion. Additional information is available at www.mcgraw-hill.com.

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