ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS AGC Honors Three with Achievement Awards


2017 AGC of California Achievement Award winners include: Denise Dutra Maloney, The Dutra Group, Contractor Achievement Award; Dennis “Chip” Sterndahl, Sterndahl Enterprises, Inc., Specialty Contractor Achievement Award; and Eileen Diepenbrock, Diepenbrock Elkin Gleason LLP, Associate Achievement Award.


annual Awards evening in Indian Wells on October 14, 2017. Each award honors the individual’s extensive career of service to the construction industry and within AGC over the years.


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Contractor Achievement Award


Denise Dutra Maloney, Te


Dutra Group, San Rafael, received AGC of California’s 2017 Contractor Achievement Award. Te award honors Maloney’s career and impact on the California construction industry spanning over 25 years. Maloney currently is Director of


Business Development for the Dutra Group, a fifth-generation family business whose name is synonymous with Bay Area dredging and marine construction, and is owner of DD-M Crane and Rigging. She has been actively involved as a leader not only within AGC of California but also with several other professional and business organizations. She has contributed thousands of volunteer hours supporting, mentoring and


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GC of California awarded three coveted Achievement Awards for 2017 during its


guiding a new generation of young people within the industry, including overseeing the annual Dutra Museum Foundation Golf Tournament benefitting the Boys & Girls Club of Marin and Petaluma.


Specialty Contractor Achievement Award


Dennis “Chip” Sterndahl,


Sterndahl Enterprises, Inc., Sun Valley, CA, received the 2017 Specialty Contractor Achievement Award, honoring a construction career that has spanned nearly half a century. Sterndahl began his career in


construction in 1970 during high school and soon became a foreman for the company responsible for thermoplastic and pavement marker installation on state highways over California. He designed and built an epoxy machine used in pavement, and went on to incorporate Sterndahl Enterprises, Inc. in 1982. He has long been active in AGC of California, serving as past chairman of the Specialty Contractors Council, a trustee of the Laborers Training Trust and Chair of a Collective Bargaining Committee for AGC employers among other roles.


Associate Achievement Award Eileen Diepenbrock, Diepenbrock


Elkin Gleason LLP, Sacramento, received the 2017 Associate Achievement Award. As a partner in her firm focused on


construction law, government contracts and business litigation, Diepen- brock is consistently recognized as a Northern California SuperLawyer by the American College of Construction Lawyers and named among the “Best of the Bar” by the Sacramento Business Journal. She has been active in AGC of California for nearly 25 years, serving as past Chair of the Legal Advisory Committee, on the Legislative Committee and a past director of the State Board. Diepenbrock represented AGC


of California in developing model prequalification documents adopted by the Department of Industrial Relations in 2000, and again worked with other members to developed updated model prequalification documents in 2015. Diepenbrock has been involved in numerous amicus briefs to the California Supreme Court and has provided extensive pro bono legal services to AGC and its members. 


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