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Steven Lovci
Vice President of Capital Projects & Construction

J. Steven Lovci joined Phipps Houses in September 2022 as Vice President of Capital Projects and Construction.  Steven is responsible for ensuring that Phipps Houses’ core values and vision are manifested in its building projects and capital renovations.  The Capital Projects and Construction Department supports new projects from inception through implementation and turnover and reinvestment in existing buildings to ensure quality, sustainability, durability, and longevity of Phipps’ portfolio. 

Steven manages and oversees predesign and preconstruction services, development of Phipps’ standards, energy and sustainability programs, construction project management, construction quality assurance and capital projects.  

Prior to Phipps Houses, he served as Executive Vice President of Capital Projects Division of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) from 2019 to 2022, administering the Authority’s Capital 5-year plan and 10-year outlook, advancing the Authority’s Capital programs, recovery and resilience program and the agency’s energy and sustainability programs totaling over $6 billion.  During his tenure, Steven directed NYCHA’s first Design-Build program, consisting of 19 Design-Build projects and totaling $4 million, NYCHA’s sustainability agenda, and leveraging the funding for NYCHA’s first fully electrified building conversion and the largest residential heat-pump conversion in the North-East.  Steven oversaw the development and publication of Connected Communities Guidebook, a community-centered urban design and engagement handbook, the recipient of the 2020 Wellbeing Cities award; NYCHA’s first stakeholder engagement standard procedure; NYCHA’s first open space master plans for over 133 individual developments; and NYCHA’s first Comprehensive Modernization white paper and planning of two comprehensive modernization projects.   

Prior to NYCHA, he was an Associate at the preservation firm Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners for over a decade and taught Building Construction at the New York Institute of Technology.   

Steven has a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Nebraska and a Bachelor of Architecture from City College, City University of New York, where he was a recipient of the AIA Henry Adams Medal.  He is a Licensed Architect in the state of New York and a Registered Architect in the State of Israel.  In 2022, he was inducted into the National Academy of Construction.