Kiewit's Cass Sobek Wins 2026 AGC Bowen Prize for Great Builders
The AGC Education and Research Foundation named Cass Sobek of Kiewit Infrastructure the 2026 recipient of the Bowen Prize for Great Builders. The award targets leaders who manage work in the field, solve complex problems, and deliver projects at scale, not executives in corner offices. The article profiles Sobek’s career and the qualities the foundation uses to define impactful field leadership in construction.
Awards like this get filed under feel-good news, but they’re actually a useful read on what the industry’s most respected institutions think good leadership looks like right now. Kiewit consistently builds deep internal bench strength, and Sobek’s recognition reflects a model where preconstruction and field execution are integrated, not handed off at contract award. Most mid-size GCs treat those two phases as separate departments with separate people. That gap is where cost overruns and scope misses originate, and it’s worth asking whether your firm’s estimating and field teams are actually talking before mobilization.
Read the full story at AGC News.
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