![Andrew Malec and Zack Brendel are the co-founders of Character Built, a construction and design group based in Athens, Georgia. (Photo by Peter Frey/UGA)](https://secure.caes.uga.edu/news/multimedia/images/6941/CharacterBuilt_6_web-1536x1025.jpeg)
UGA alumni team up to complete historic restoration in downtown Athens
Andrew Malec was planning to go into photojournalism after he graduated from Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Zack Brendel majored in environmental economics and management in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.