Achievement Awards 2024


Lamar Hanger received the Construction Education Friend Award from presenter Sarah Carr, McCarthy Building


Raymond Tritt accepted the S.I.R. Achievement Award from presenter Clinton Myers, Myers and Sons Construction.


CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FRIEND AWARD Lamar Hanger, Instructor, Construction Trades CTE Program, Fontana High School Lamar Hanger, a former union carpenter for 32 years, now instructs the Construction Trades Career Technical Education program at Fontana High School. During his time as a carpenter, he worked on several landmark projects, most notably performing freeform lathing for various attractions at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Transitioning to teaching, Hanger spent eight years ed-


ucating apprentices for the Southwest Carpenters Training Fund, where he was known for his dedication and one-on-one mentoring. Retirement led him to a community-serving role as a pre-apprenticeship instructor. Embracing the challenge, he converted an old woodshop into a modern construction training lab with donations from contractor contacts like Swinerton and McCarthy Building Companies. From an initial 70 students, his program has grown to over 200 enrollees, with more on a waiting list. Hanger’s students have enjoyed success, winning Rook- ies of the Year at the 2021 Construction Industry Education Foundation Design Build Competition, with some becoming apprentice carpenters post-graduation. Always striving to expose students to various construction


career paths, Hanger partners with AGC of California’s Build California, inviting contractors for classroom presentations, facility tours, or social media interaction.


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SKILL, INTEGRITY, RESPONSIBILITY (S.I.R) ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Raymond Tritt, Deputy Division Chief of Construction (Retired), Caltrans Raymond Tritt is the outgoing deputy division chief of construc- tion for Caltrans and has led a distinguished career at Caltrans for over 35 years. Known around the corridors as the “godfather” of alternative delivery within Caltrans, he has used his expertise in transportation policy and alternative procurement to help design specifications that capture the Department’s goals as well as address concerns of industry. Involved in several joint industry and agency committees,


Tritt has been able to help bridge the gap between agency and industry by helping push the integration of Building Information Modeling on Caltrans projects, improving value engineering change proposals, reducing issues in prompt payment, and addressing concerns around DBEs. Prior to his role as deputy division chief of construction, Tritt


spent 16 years as the chief of the Office of Innovative Design and Delivery within the Division of Design, where he implemented the design-build demonstration program (2010) and the con- struction manager/general contractor (CMGC) pilot program in 2012. He helped to secure additional design-build authority in 2013 and unlimited CMGC authority in 2018.


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