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Servidyne Systems Wins ENERGY STAR(R) Award for Fourth Consecutive Year EPA Recognizes Abrams Industries' Subsidiary for Helping Customers Protect the Environment and Reduce Operating Costs through Energy Efficiency ATLANTA, March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Environmental Protection Agency has once again recognized Servidyne Systems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Abrams Industries, Inc. , for its outstanding and continued leadership in reducing greenhouse gas emissions through superior energy management. On March 2, 2004, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., the EPA will present Servidyne with the ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award, marking the fourth consecutive year that Servidyne has received a coveted ENERGY STAR award. Servidyne, a Charter Ally of the ENERGY STAR Buildings Program since 1995, received ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Awards in 2001, 2002 and 2003. This year Servidyne is being honored for sustaining smart energy management practices through assisting clients inbenchmarking their buildings, achieving ENERGY STAR Label recognition, and significantly improving the energy performance of their building portfolios. In 2003, Servidyne partnered with ENERGY STAR to become a host of the National Energy Performance Rating System, providing automated ENERGY STAR benchmarking services to the market. Through these programs and its other offerings, Servidyne helps its customers realize significant energy cost savings by making a commitment to continuous improvement ofenergy performance. "Servidyne is proud to support the ENERGY STAR program and its goals to reduce energy consumption," said Barry Abramson, Senior Vice President and Director of Engineering Services for Servidyne. "In 2003 alone, Servidyne assessed over 225 buildings utilizing the ENERGY STAR performance rating. Through ENERGY STAR as well as our other building engineering and maintenance offerings, Servidyne has enabled our customers to significantly reduce operating costs while improving the comfort of building occupants." The Sustained Excellence Award is presented only to a select group of leading companies who have integrated energy management into their business practices and who provide a model of excellence for other organizations to follow. These Award winners are chosen from thousands that participate in the ENERGY STAR program. About Servidyne Systems, LLC Servidyne Systems is an Atlanta-based energy engineering and maintenance management company serving building owners and managers. Since 1974, Servidyne has been helping its customers drive down the costs of operating buildings by reducing energy consumption and increasing work efficiency. Servidyne's engineering services include energy audits, utility monitoring and analysis services, MEP surveys, IAQ studies, due diligence, HVAC retrofit design and more. Servidyne also assists building owners and managers in managing equipment maintenance for the highest efficiency and useful equipment life, while maximizing labor productivity. The company operates nationwide and has a number of customers with international facilities. Servidyne is a subsidiary of Abrams Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABRI). For more information about Servidyne Systems, LLC, please visit http://www.servidyne.com/ or call 1-800-241-8996. About Abrams Industries, Inc. Established in 1925, Abrams Industries, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, provides a variety of energy management and construction services to building owners and operators and engagesin commercial real estate investment and development. In energy management, the company offers engineering services, maintenance management solutions, and turnkey implementation of energy saving lighting programs and related services to help commercial, institutional, hospitality, industrial and retail customers reduce energy consumption and building operating and maintenance costs. In construction, the company offers a wide range of construction services, including program management, construction management and general construction of retail stores, shopping centers, banks, office buildings, and distribution and manufacturing facilities, and engages in other types of commercial construction. In real estate, the company currently owns or controls approximately 1.4 million square feet of shopping centers in the Midwest and Southeast and approximately 200,000 square feet of office properties in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. For more information about Abrams Industries, please visit http://www.abramsindustries.com/ or call 770-953-0304. About ENERGY STAR ENERGY STAR was introduced by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary market-based partnership to reduce air pollution through increased energy efficiency. The program offers businesses and consumers energy-efficient solutions to save energy, money and help protect the environment for future generations. More than 7,000 organizations have become ENERGY STAR partners and are committed to improving the energy efficiency of products, homes and businesses. For more information about ENERGY STAR, visit http://www.energystar.gov/ or call toll-free 1-888-STAR-YES (1-888-782-7937). Certain statements contained in this news release are forward-looking statements withinthe meaning of the federal securities laws. Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other matters which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Abrams Industries, Inc. to be materially different from any past or future results, performance, or uncertainties expressed or implied by such forward- looking statements. Abrams Industries, Inc. does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: Abrams Industries, Inc. CONTACT: Claire J. Wiggill, Interim President of Servidyne Systems, LLC, +1-404-352-2050, or ; or Alan R. Abrams, President & CEO of Abrams Industries, Inc., +1-770-953-0304, or Web site: http://www.abramsindustries.com/ http://www.servidyne.com/ http://www.energystar.gov/

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