2025 WCDA AWards

Dec 17, 2025

We are pleased to share the winners of this year’s WCDA awards that were presented at our Q4 association meeting In Boston this month, hosted by CDM Smith and supporting sponsors AECOM, Core & Main, Hensel Phelps, IMCO Construction, Shook Construction, and Woodard & Curran. The following award winners have given countless hours, boundless energy, and unwavering commitment to the mission of WCDA. We are proud to work beside them and appreciate their true illustration of collaboration, dedication, and thought leadership. When we say better projects, together, this is exactly what we mean. We could not “empower the water sector with the knowledge, ability, and tools for successful collaborative delivery” without you!

WCDA President Tom Visosky also recognized and thanked outgoing Immediate Past President Michelle Green for her years of service on the board of directors and Ali Bahar who served as an outside director on the board for 2025. Closing out the ceremony, President-Elect Guy Voss presented Tom Visosky with the 2025 Presidential Appreciation Award and thanked him for his service as president this year.

It takes a lot of time, dedication, and yes, collaboration to make WCDA a nationally recognized source for education, advocacy, and research on collaborative delivery in the water sector. Thank you to all of our award winners for going above and beyond in those efforts!

2025 Award Winners:

2025 Mark Alpert Collaborator of the Year:

Scott Phillips, Garney, WCDA Advocacy Committee Chair

Justin Sobol, Structural Technologies, WCDA Education Committee Chair

2025 New Professional of the Year:

Drew Boland, Clark Water, WCDA New Professionals Committee Co-Chair

2025 Dedication in Action Awards:

Erik Anderson, Wharton-Smith, WCDA Reearch Committee Chair

Tom Ellis, Ferguson Waterworks

Gus Hrncir, Brown and Caldwell


Karen Pallansch, WCDA Outside Director


Anna Pridmore, Structural Technologies

2025 Stronger Together Award:

Robert Golden, WCDA Business Operations Manager

2025 Presidential Appreciation Award:

Tom Visosky, CDM Smith, WCDA President