Silver Hard Hat Awards

The Construction Writers Association Silver Hard Hat Awards are CWA's highest honor. The Silver Hard Hat Award is conferred by the Board of Directors for 1) service to the construction industry or 2) service to the association. Although the award is given most years, it is given at the option of the board in one or both categories.

Previous Award Winners

2007Rolf Fuessler, APR, FSMPS, principal of the Fuessler Group Inc., Boston, MA

2006Ward Malisch, Sr Managing Editor of Concrete International, American Concrete Institute; formerly with Aberdeen/Hanley wood (service to the industry)
Jennifer Grover Prokopy, principal of Orange Grove Media, past president of CWA (service to the association)

2005David Wood, freelance writer/marketer and a past president of CWA William D. Toohey Jr., executive vice president and chief operating office of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association 

2004Charles H. Thornton, Chairman Thornton-Tomasetti-Cutts and creator of the ACE Mentoring Program

2003Gordon Wright, executive editor of Building Design & Construction and past president of CWA

2002Bill Swisher, chairman emeritus of CMI Corporation

2001Jack Miller, the Jack Miller Network

2000Karen Maglioca, marketing director-transportation for KPMG, former director of CWA

1999Marty McIntyre, director of communications for The Counselors of Real Estate and past president of CWA
Francis B. Francois, retiring after 18 years as executive director of the American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

1998Thelma Stevens Mrazek, former secretary/treasurer of CWA

1997No award

1996Debra Rubin, Engineering Record

1995No award

1994Rusty Haggard, Construction Industry Institute

1993Danial Flanagan, Chair, Commission to Promote Investment in America’s Infrastructure

1992Colonel Charles Cowan, Arizona Department of Transportation

1991David Alan Aschaur, Economist, Economic Policy Institute

1990Allen Higley, Deere & Co. (member)
Wolf von Eckhardt, Archtectural Critic

1989Edward A. Greene (member)

1988Nancy Rutledge, Chair, National Council on Public Works

1987E. E. Halmos, Jr. (member)

1986Jane Edmunds (member)

1985Robert J. Benson, Construction Industry Manufacturers Association

1984Don Knight (member)
Senator Jennings Randolph (D-WV)

1983No award

1982David Williams (member)

1981Greg Sitek (member)

1980Harold J. McKeever (member)

1979No award

1978Ken Hanan (member)

1977Robert Byrne (member)

1976No award

1975Vear Mann (member)
Saul Horowitz, Jr., Associated General Contractors

1974Arthur Faber (member)
Nello L. Teer, Nello Teer Construction Co.

1973Dave Alder (member)
Donald Stabler, President, The Road Information Program

1972Don Gehring (member)
Allan Rehan, Sangamo Construction Co

1971William H. Quirk (member)
William M. Carey, Jr., Highway Research Board

1970Harold J. McKeever (member)
Carl Halvorson, President, Associated Builders & Contractors

1969E. E. Halmos, Jr. (member)
John M. Harbert III, Harbert Construction Co.