10/20/26 – For Immediate Release
Richard Disney, of Disney Construction, the 2026 president of the Beavers, has announced the recipients of the 2027 Golden Beaver awards to be presented Friday January 15 at the JW Marriott at LA Live in Los Angeles.
The Leadership Award will be presented to Jaimie Angus, CEO of Griffith Company of Brea CA. Since joining Griffith in 1987 Angus progressed through every level of the company from laborer and estimator to president and CEO. Since being named president in 2014 he has guided Griffith’s annual revenue growth from $239 million to $650 million. He has championed innovation, workforce development, safety and alternative project delivery throughout his career in addition to serving as president of AGC of California and numerous other leadership posts with industry organizations.
Bob Beckel, senior vice president of Kraemer North America, will receive the Management Award. A civil engineering graduate from North Dakota State University, Bob has been a primary driver in leading Kraemer’s recent growth, having achieved 14 consecutive years of record profits while quadrupling annual volume over the same period. Over his 40-year career, all with Kraemer, he has progressed from a laborer while in college through field operations and management posts and for the past 10 years has been a senior vice president and board member. Throughout his career he has served as an executive leader on many of the company’s most demanding and complex projects including multiple joint ventures.
The Supervision Award will be presented to Terry Martin of Stacy and Witbeck, Inc. He began his career as a bricklayer which has given him a deep appreciation of the value of skilled craft workers. Deciding to focus on heavy construction, he studied civil engineering at Stanford starting at the age of 35. After graduation he joined Granite Construction as a project engineer moving up through the Superintendent and Project management positions. In 2007 he joined Stacy and Witbeck, providing construction and project management leadership on transit and transportation projects throughout the western states with contracts totaling more than $5 billion. Many of these were joint venture projects delivered through CM/GC, design-build or progressive design-build, which all requires collaborative relationships between the project teams.
California State University Chico Construction Management professor Chris Souder will receive the award for Engineering/Service and Supply. A 1988 construction management graduate from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Chris spent 16 years with Kiewit Pacific as a project engineer and structural superintendent before switching careers to teach full-time at Chico. He was appointed the Beavers Endowed Professor in Construction Management and has served as the Construction Management department head. Sharing his passion for heavy construction, he started the first Beavers student chapter at Chico and is a strong advocate for student internships. He has published a book on temporary structures which is used by numerous school programs around the country.
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