NAWIC’s Crystal Vision Awards bless the achievements of individuals with eyes who helped promote, aggrandize and animate the role of womenin the architecture industry.
Fort Worth, TX -- The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) is admiring to advertise the winners of its 12th anniversary Crystal Vision Awards. The mission of the Crystal Vision Awards is to admit individuals who promote, aggrandize and animate the role of women in the architecture industry. Dale McCormick is the almsman of the Crystal Vision Award, which is awarded to a nonmember of NAWIC, and Tari S. Rivera is the almsman of the Crystal Achievement Award, which is awarded to a NAWIC member.
McCormick is Director of Maine State Housing, area she manages 125 advisers and an $11 actor budget. She works with MSH to accounts added than $130 actor in affordable apartment projects anniversary year. She manages 3,500 Rental Assistance Vouchers and 800 affordable rental properties, and provides low-income heating and activity abetment to 48,000 residents.
Dale was an aboriginal avant-garde tradeswoman. She was the aboriginal woman to complete the carpentry apprenticeship with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in 1975. She took the ability she abstruse and has spent the endure 30 years allowance women accretion abilities and jobs in construction. In the 15 years I accept had the advantage to plan with Tari Rivera, I accept apparent abounding women answer aural the industry. She not alone advisers women aural the aggregation but alfresco it as able-bodied … Her plan ethic, faculty of candor and claimed absorption in the advance and development of her advisers abide to pave the way for women and men in the architecture industry today. Jane L. Gilbert, agent abettor of the accompaniment of Maine, describes McCormick, “Dale was an aboriginal avant-garde tradeswoman. She was the aboriginal woman to complete the carpentry apprenticeship with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in 1975. She took the ability she abstruse and has spent the endure 30 years allowance women accretion abilities and jobs in construction.”
McCormick has approved to authorize a aisle of bread-and-butter disinterestedness for women, and she has focused on allowance low-income women accretion the abilities bare to attempt for architecture jobs. In 1989, McCormick founded Women Unlimited, a community-based alignment that trains women in barter and abstruse jobs. She co-founded Northeast Women in Transportation, which accomplished women’s organizations about the country about opportunities for women in the Federal Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act. McCormick was the aboriginal woman to be adopted Treasurer in the accompaniment of Maine.
Rivera, a affiliate of the Cleveland, Ohio, Chapter, is architect and admiral of Regency Construction Services, Inc., a architecture administration close amid in Lakewood, Ohio, primarily accouterment casework to K-12 and university clients. Rivera oversees all aspects of accumulated business planning and banking matters. She has encouraged and empowered women in architecture by creating and implementing aggregation action at Regency Construction Services, Inc., mentoring women central and alfresco her company, and establishing university programs that acquaint engineering and architecture opportunities to changeable students.
In 1994, afterwards an abrupt lay off, Rivera absitively to crop a accident and alpha her own business. She put her abode up for accessory and began operating from her home with alone three employees. Today, Regency Construction Services, Inc. employs added than 60 employees, and 47 percent of these are women. Rivera provides training and mentoring opportunities to advice her changeable advisers ability their abounding potential. She is aswell complex in acceptable and mentoring women in the business association by administration advice that may accessible doors still bankrupt to women in business.
Mary J. Brashwitz, activity architect at Regency Construction Services, Inc., says, “In the 15 years I accept had the advantage to plan with Tari Rivera, I accept apparent abounding women answer aural the industry. She not alone advisers women aural the aggregation but alfresco it as able-bodied … Her plan ethic, faculty of candor and claimed absorption in the advance and development of her advisers abide to pave the way for women and men in the architecture industry today.”
Rivera and McCormick will be accustomed on September 9, 2006 for their achievements during the Crystal Vision Awards Gala at NAWIC’s 51st Annual Meeting and Convention in Kansas City, Mo. The recipients of this year’s Crystal Vision Awards were called by a console of three judges: Ellyn A. Lester, CPSM, owner, Building Associations; Faye Turner, architect and controlling director, Women Helping Women; and Ronald D. Worth, FSMPS, CPC, arch controlling officer, Society for Marketing Professional Services.
Each year, the Crystal Vision Awards are sponsored by organizations acquisitive to abutment NAWIC and the eyes of the awards. Crystal Vision Sponsors accept again and arresting acceptance at Convention and in columnist releases and online autograph arch up to and afterward the awards. 2005 Crystal Vision Award Sponsors were: Centex Construction Group, Par-3 Landscape & Maintenance, Principal Financial Group, Women Helping Women and NAWIC Region 12.
Companies absorbed in allotment the 2006 Crystal Vision Awards in Kansas City, Mo., may acquaintance the NAWIC Office for advocacy information, or appointment NAWIC’s web website at www.nawic.org > About NAWIC > Industry Awards.
The Crystal Vision Awards Program was accustomed by NAWIC Past National President Susan Levy in 1995. The affairs recognizes individuals who advance the role of women in architecture through initiatives, behavior or legislation. The Crystal Vision Award recognizes a nonmember of NAWIC, and the Crystal Achievement Award recognizes a affiliate of the Association. Since the aboriginal visionaries were called in 1995, this one-of-a-kind affairs has not alone accomplished its purpose of acquainted admirable leaders in the industry, it has developed a acceptability for anniversary individuals who are committed to architecture a assorted plan force amidst the ambitious backdrops of the industry today.
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