King Hussein-Distinguished Alumni award recipient for 2020
We didn’t meet in person last year so he was given the award at our October 8, 2021 Alumni dinner.
King Hussein received his MS in civil engineering from BYU in 1971 (BS from the University of Bombay). In 1980, he founded Span Construction and Engineering, which is one of the country’s largest metal building construction companies. His company is built on the foundation of ethics and will not compromise high standards such as not working on Sundays and the prompt completion of a project.
He and his wife Diane have 4 children. Mr. Hussein has been very generous over the years to the CEEn department as well as the engineering college including creating an endowment, providing a professorship to assist a professor with research, and donating to the new engineering building. He was a founding member of the CEEn Scholarship Society which has made huge impacts in the lives of many students. He and his wife also serve on the International Advisory Council for the BYU International Center for Law and Religion Studies.
Thomas R Warne-Distinguished Alumni award recipient for 2021
Tom has provided individual consultation on projects such as the replacement of the collapsed 35W bridge in Minneapolis and others. He also has chaired numerous dispute review boards. He served as executive director of the Utah Department of Transportation and earlier as the deputy director of the Arizona Department of Transportation. He also served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers early in his career. He has been honored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) with an OPAL (Outstanding Projects and Leadership) Award for Management, by the Beavers with its Golden Beaver Award for Management, and by ENR as a Top 25 Newsmaker. Member of the National Academy of Construction (NAC), 2016 class.
He is considered a pioneer of the "design-build" concept in road construction. Warne’s firm engages in design-build, strategic planning, dispute review boards, partnering facilitation, succession management, legislative initiatives, market analysis, government relations, process improvement initiatives, and client interventions. Major projects have included the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the John James Audubon Bridge, and the Columbia River Crossing, and many others.