Hank Adams, executive vice president of Kiewit Infrastructure Group and a member of the Peter Kiewit Sons Co. board, died. No public announcement has been issued on Hank Adams’ death. However, internet accounts state that Hank Adams died. The death of Hank Adams was not well recorded at the time of publication. Around 1977, Peter Kiewit and Sons hired Hank Adams as a Bolt Hill Station field engineer near Baltimore.
In 1979, Fairleigh Dickinson University gave him a B.S. in construction engineering technology, followed by an Associate Degree in Applied Science from the State University of New York Delhi. After a year, he was appointed Field Engineer/Superintendent of the Fort McHenry Sunken Tube Tunnel in Baltimore. The Dadeland South/Hialeah Station project in Miami, the Baltimore road building, the Cleveland Tower City Bridges, and the Pennsylvania road and highway projects were all massive.
He was appointed Northeast District Area Manager and Heavy Construction Grow Tunnelling Division Manager in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed Eastern District district manager, where he oversaw projects in Chicago, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast. Hank Adams was appointed Eastern Region Division Manager in 2008. His executive jurisdiction includes the Eastern, Southeast, TIC Marine, Underground, Mass Electric Industrial (Boston), and Transit Districts. He makes final decisions about the District’s operating zone profit and loss, business development, human resources, safety, and quality.
He oversees national initiatives and ensures strategic market leadership through his numerous district managers, area managers, and senior personnel. In 2013, he was appointed executive vice president of Kiewit Infrastructure Group after being elected to the board of Peter Kiewit Sons Co. Adams helps the firm by joining heavy construction trade groups. President of the American Society of Civil Engineers Construction Institute and trustee of the New Jersey Chapter of the Associated General Contractors. He serves on the SUNY Delhi and Virginia Tech industrial boards. Achievements of Hank Adams, who joined Moles in 1995. After serving on the membership committee, he became secretary from 2005 to 2007 and treasurer in 2009.
After serving as Chairman of the Moles Award Committee in 2010 and First and Second Vice President, he was elected President in 2014. He has been appointed to senior positions in the New Jersey Associated General Contractors of America and the Associated Construction Contractors of New Jersey. He received the 2012 SUNY Delhi Distinguished Alumnus Award. I was on the industry board for Virginia Tech’s Myers-Lawson School of Construction. He and Beth have four daughters and seven granddaughters.
