Richard L. Tucker Leadership & Service Award
The Richard L. Tucker Leadership & Service Award recognizes an individual who has contributed significantly to the advancement of the CII mission and to the success of CII as an organization. It is named in honor of Dr. Richard L. Tucker, who personally led the effort to create the Construction Industry Institute in 1983 and who served as the first CII Director from its inception until his retirement as Director in 1998.
The CII Executive Committee selects the award recipient. The award may be presented to a CII volunteer participant in CII programs or to an individual not affiliated with a member organization who otherwise meets the criteria for the award. The award is to be presented not more than once per year, and is to be presented only when a worthy candidate has been identified and selected.
Award Selection Criteria
The recipient must:
- Be active in CII programs, while providing significant service to further the mission accomplishment of CII. Describe the nominee's contribution and how it has furthered the mission of CII.
- Demonstrate ambassadorship and promotion of CII (e.g., to other organizations). Provide instances of ambassadorship by the nominee.
- Have served as a mentor/advocate for other CII participants. (Please describe in detail.)
- Have served within the institute for at least several years. (How many years has the nominee served within CII, and in which areas did he or she participate?)
- Nominees cannot be part of the current or past CII staff.
The deadline for nominations is May 30.
Recipients
Steve Cabano (2021)
Supportive leader who supported the idea of a wider industry alliance to position the engineering and construction industry for the future, and championed that intiaitive with CII and other leading groups.
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Micheal Elliott (2019)
An able manager of projects of all sizes and a dedicated volunteer with the Institute, Elliott served as a mentor and leader to many and always emphasized that “great projects are built by a strong team of great people working together.”
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William O’Brien (2018)
An industry leader who has led and served others as a civil engineer, a start-up innovator during the early years of the Internet, a researcher, an educator, a supply-chain expert, and the interim Director of Fiatech as it returned to being part of CII
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William C. Beck (2017)
For his countless years of service to CII and dedication to improving this industry, we are quite proud to present the fourteenth Richard L. Tucker Award to Bill Beck.
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C. Jerome Eyink (2016)
CII selected C. Jerome Eyink as the thirteenth recipient of the Richard L. Tucker Leadership & Service Award. He was recognized for this honor at the 2016 CII Annual Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
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Richard E. Hoffer (2015)
A 31-year employee with Chevron, Hoffer currently manages the company’s Project Execution Center of Expertise, stewarding Chevron’s project management intellectual property and providing project support and competency development.
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John E. Nobles (2014)
When asked, his employees at Burns & McDonnell describe him as a visionary leader, a patient manager, and a supportive mentor, and they link these virtues to his CII involvement.
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