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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The Oliver Delery Award

The Oliver Delery Award (formerly the Richard E. Barnes Award) is a lifetime achievement award presented to an individual in recognition of their industry support and service.  It is the highest  award the ACPA gives out to an individual.

 About Oliver

Oliver was a true-life legend in his devotion to his family, his community, his faith, his career as a professional engineer, to his employer, and to the concrete pipe industry. He started his career working for his family’s business, New Orleans Cement Products Company, and through industry involvement and hard work, he was elected as the youngest Chairman of the Board of the ACPA in 1989.  Additionally, Oliver served as Chair of multiple ACPA Committees including his passion, the Government Relations Committee. He was awarded many honors in the ACPA, ASTM and throughout his career. Some of these awards where the highest level of awards granted by the societies presenting them to him. Oliver was well known and remembered for his influence in his education institutions and in his hometown of New Orleans with Mardi Gras and Sugar Bowl operations and festivities.

In 2011 he was awarded the ACPA’s Richard E. Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award, of which has now been renamed to the Oliver Delery Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Oliver Delery
1955 - 2020 

2022

Marc Omelanic

Langley Concrete Group

2018

William C. Adams

Hancock Concrete Products, LLC

2017

John Finch

Rinker Materials

2016

George Hand

Oldcastle Infrastructure

2015

Mel Marshall

Mel C. Marshall Industrial Consultants, Inc.

2013

Bill Washabaugh

Northern Concrete Pipe, Inc.

2012

Oliver Delery

Hanson Pipe & Precast

2011

Hank Schmidgall

HawkeyePedershaab

2010

Roman Selig

Sherman International Corp.

2009

Tom Wheelan

Hanson Pipe & Precast

2008

Ron Metzger

Rinker Materials

2007

Leonard Klein

CAM - Concrete Accessory Manufacturing

2006

John Duffy

American Concrete Pipe Association

2005

Aldo Bussio

Geneva Pipe Company

2003

Jim Carder

Carder Concrete Products Co.

2002

John H. Bailey

The Cretex Companies

2001

Charles Gallagher

The Cretex Companies, Inc.

1999

Joseph Zicaro

CSR Hydro Conduit Corp.

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