The list of nominees for induction into the Alabama Construction Hall of Fame at the 2015 Alabama AGC BuildSouth Awards Banquet on Jan. 16 at The Club has been set. Inducted into the ACHOF in 2014 were Robert Paul Barnett, Barnett Associates; Patrick Davis, CMH Architects; Leroy McAbee, Sr., McAbee Construction; Earlon C. McWhorter, McWhorter and Co.; Sam Moore, Moore Corporation.
Other Hall of Fame Members are:
2018 – Kristine A. Harding, NCARB, AIA, KPS Group; Larry Argo, Marathon Electrical Contractors; Alex Whaley, Sr, Whaley Construction Company
2017 – Ty Cole, AIA, Giattina Aycock Architecture Studio; D. Dale York, PE, SECB, FACEC, LBYD Civil & Structural Engineers; Ben M. Radcliff, Sr., Ben M. Radcliff Contractors, Inc.; Jim Rein, BL Harbert International
2016 – G. Gray Plosser, Jr., FAIA, LEED AP, KPS Group; Ms. Lowell Christy, PE, Christy/Cobb, Inc.; Thomas E. Doster, III, Doster Construction; William K. Whitesell, Jr., Whitesell-Green, Inc.
2015 – Don Brown, Brown Studio Architecture; David Hare, BL Harbert Construction; James Harbison, Brasfield & Gorrie General Contractor, and Uday Bhate, Bhate Geosciences.
2014 – Robert P. Barnett, P.E., Barnett, Jones, Wilson, LLC; Patrick Davis, CMH Architects, Inc.; Leroy McAbee, McAbee Construction, Inc.; Earlon McWhorter, McWhorter and Co., Inc., and Sam Moore, The Moore Corporation
2013 – Jamie Aycock, Alain J. Gallet, the late Leon Goddard, and William A. Hunt
2012 – Richard E. Barrow, Frank M. Cater, James S.M. French, and W.S. “Billy Newell
2011 — Robert E. Almon, Jim Anthony, Daniel D. Bennett, and Norman Walton, Sr.
2010 — James Floyd Pate, Sr., Major L. Holland, Richard Saliba, and Glenn Bishop
2009 — D. Riley Stuart, Joseph P. Giattina Jr., and Henry T. Hagood Jr.
2008 — The late Benjamin Hogan Craig, Jr., William W. Herrin, the late J.V. Rives, Jr., Charles H. Sain and Norman Walton, Jr.
2007 — Bill Harbert, W.K. Upchurch, Jr., and the late Bill Caton, Sr.
2006 — Houston Brice, Sr., Hugh Daniel, and John Harbert
2005 — John Caddell
2004 — M. Miller Gorrie
2003 — Winton “Red” Blount
2002 — George Edwards
2001 — The late D.W. “Bill” Ellard, Paul B. Krebs, Nicholas H. Holmes Jr.
The Alabama AGC established the ACHOF to honor and recognize outstanding individuals in the construction industry. These individuals are held in esteem by their peers and have demonstrated their professionalism through active support of the industry through their civic and community involvement. In short, only those who have literally changed the landscape of our state and nation will be enshrined in the ACHOF.
One must have served the Alabama or Florida construction industry – as a general contractor, a specialty contractor or supplier, an architect or an engineer – for at least 25 years to be eligible for the hall of fame.