Non-Member Awardee

Matthew M. Walsh was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 7, 1946. Matt, and his brother Daniel, to their start in construction while listening to their father discuss construction projects being performed by the family-owned company. During summers, throughout high school and college, he was given the opportunity to dig bells in deep caissons, deliver concrete in Georgia buggies and formed and finished concrete. After a few weeks of handling a 90-pound jackhammer, Matt quickly decided his education would be his first priority. He went on to earn his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1968 and then a law degree from Loyola University in 1972.

The Walsh Construction Company that operated in the early 1970’s was a local Chicago building contractor, far different from t the Walsh Construction Company of today. Over the past thirty years, Matt and his brother have expanded the company in to a major national contractor, ranked by ENR as the 20th largest US contractor, the 4th largest bridge builder, and the largest builder of water and waste water treatment plants.

The Company has participated in major underground projects, having built sections of the Deep Tunnel system in Chicago. The Milwaukee tunnel system and the massive tunnel and runway bridge currently underway at Hartsfield Turner Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Walsh Construction Company has constructed or rebuilt sections of every major interstate highway in the Chicago metropolitan area a swell as major highway projects in Indiana, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
The Walsh Group, of which Matthew is the CEO, is owned by the Walsh family and is the parent company of Walsh Construction Company, Archer Western Contractors and assorted equipment and real estate entities. The company’s headquarters is in Chicago and there are 12 regional offices.

Matthew Walsh has served as a board member of St. Ignati8sColleg Pre, as an advisory council member of the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, as a board member of Construction Industry Round Table and has served on a number of industry advisory boards as well as charity groups.

He and his wife, Joyce, live in Burr Ridge, Illinois and are the parents of three children: Matt IV, Sean and Erin.