BUILDING YOUR NETWORK


Dynamic General Session Speakers


Opening session speaker Alex Willis, founder & CEO of Leadership Surge, offered an inspiring keynote address that drew references from his football career at the University of Florida and with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to develop a winning formula at his company. Over the past 15 years, Willis has coached over 2,000 executives, foremen, and frontline workers in the construction industry, embedding diversity and in- clusion into leadership and delivering programs that focus on critical areas like stress management, performance coaching, and work-life balance to drive meaningful, lasting change. During the October 2 general ses-


Legacy Award Winners Honored


AGC of California unveiled its fourth annual Legacy Awards during CONSTRUCT 2024, honoring longtime member companies who have shown a sustained commitment to the industry and to the association. This year’s awards celebrated seven companies who joined AGC of California over 40 years ago. The companies were honored and recognized with wrapped pillars on the hotel terrace during a Legacy Awards reception on October 1.


This year’s Legacy Awards honorees included:


• Clark Pacific • CliftonLarsonAllen LLP • Cox, Castle & Nicholson • George Reed


• Southern California Grading • Trench Shoring • Turner Construction


sion, Mike Clancy, a partner at FMI and leader of the company’s strategy practice, offered a presentation on FMI’s economic and marketing trends for the construction industry for the year ahead. Tat address was followed by a dynamic panel discussion, moderated by Michael Quigley, executive director of California Alliance for Jobs, and featuring three of the top owner’s representatives in Cali- fornia infrastructure as panelists: Darrin Lambrigger, director of the construction management division at the Port of Long Beach; Ray Hopkins, chief of the division of construction at Caltrans; and Julie Owen, senior executive officer of project management oversight at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority.


Te panelists discussed topics ranging


from how they are working with partner agencies to streamline processes, improve efficiencies and ensure good outcomes for large-scale infrastructure projects such as those underway for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, to best practices for alternative delivery methods, and the importance of industry collaboration.


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CALIFORNIA CONSTRUCTOR NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024


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