Award Winners

Construction Executive magazine is excited to announce it was named a finalist for the 2024 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, in both the Eddie and Ozzie categories: Eddie: Single Issue, November 2023 Ozzie: Website Redesign For print, digital, news, blogs, podcasts and other med...

Every year, ABC’s National Excellence in Inclusion, Diversity and Merit Awards honor ABC member companies that “display exemplary inclusion, diversity and meritocratic leadership in their workforce, supply chain and community, with best-in-class recruitment policies, retention pr...

Mike Menke was just 22 years old when he attended his first-ever ABC Convention as captain of Colorado State University’s Construction Management Competition team. As he sat in the crowd watching ABC’s Construction Workforce Award honorees take the stage, he thought to himself: “...

The last thing Joe Ahrens wanted to do was go into the family business. That would be Ahrens Corporation, the plumbing and civil-contracting company his grandfather and uncle founded in San Diego in 1981, where his father, brother, uncles and cousins also worked. Ahrens didn’t w...

“Just being able to watch ’em grow up and become the people they are, and you see ’em at this young age. It’s just great. Just great.” ABC’s 2024 Craft Instructor of the Year, Paul Asselin, is an instructor at Gould Construction Institute in Woburn, Massachusetts—the education a...

Before the big client portfolio, before the diversified business units, before the recognition from OSHA, before the sprawling headquarters with the gleaming boardroom and the multiple fabrication shops and the on-premises welding school—before all of that, there was just Mark Mo...

Associated Builders and Contractors presented Construction Workforce Awards for the 2022 Young Professional of the Year, Craft Professional of the Year and Craft Instructor of the Year at its national convention in San Antonio on March 15. Here is a sneak preview from full profil...

The 2022 ABC Construction Workforce Awards—sponsored by NCCER, Tradesmen International and Autodesk—honor the top craft professional, craft instructor and young professional in the construction industry. Help highlight construction as a meaningful lifelong career by nominating so...

Husband. Father. Coach. Hobby rancher. Mayor. Vice president and partner of his company. Jim Ellis holds a lot of titles for a man who hasn’t even hit the age of 40—and all of these achievements have led to him being named Associated Builders and Contractors’ Young Professional o...

JOHN PINELO, SR. Sales Engineer Federal Technology Solutions Inc. Electrical and Low Voltage Programs Instructor Associated Builders and Contractors – Southern California Corona, California After more than 30 years in the electrical/low voltage sector, John Pinelo Sr., sales eng...