NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate

JOHN ESCHEMULLER, B.C.E., M.B.A., P.E.

Clinical Associate Professor of Construction Management

With nearly 40 years experience in the construction industry in New York, John Eschemuller has expertise in the planning, design, and construction of new-base-building construction, renovation of existing buildings, high technology spaces, special use facilities, and corporate headquarters tenant fit-up programs.

Eschemuller began his career working for New York Telephone (now Verizon), building its corporate headquarters at 1095 Avenue of the Americas as well as major telephone switching and computer centers, and other projects in the New York area, including the acquisition and development of the world’s largest commercial condominium in midtown Manhattan. As head of the company’s buildings management and construction department, Eschemuller managed 2,100 employees and an annual budget of more than $1 billion.

From 1987 until 2003, he was senior vice president of special projects at Structure Tone. There he was involved with the planning and construction of many large projects in New York City, including the J.P. Morgan headquarters (60 Wall Street), Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide Plaza, the Carpenter Union Headquarters and Technical School, the Sheraton Center Hotel, Sony's corporate headquarters (550 Madison Avenue), the MetLife complexes (1 Madison and 11 Madison Avenue), the Columbia University business and law school buildings, and the Bloomberg LLP corporate headquarters (731 Lexington Avenue).

Currently, he is president of John Eschemuller Consulting Services Limited, LLC. Eschemuller recently co-authored with a Schack Institute colleague, clinical associate professor Richard Lambeck, a new book on construction management, Urban Construction Project Management (McGraw Hill 2008).

Eschemuller holds a bachelor’s in civil engineering from City College, CUNY, and an M.B.A. from Pace University. He is a licensed professional engineer in New York State, and a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the American Arbitration Association, and The City College Engineering School Board of Directors.