Non-Member Awardee

Theodore Budd was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 18, 1946. He was raised with four other brothers and a sister in Pemberton, New Jersey, near the family’s cranberry farm, now in its 5th generation of production. He graduated from Marquette University in 1969 with a Civil Engineering degree (the first engineering CO-OP class at Marquette). As part of that program, he was involved in three major compressed air and soft ground and mixed faced tunnels in Milwaukee, being a part time employee of Grange Construction Company.

Upon graduation he was employed with the City of Philadelphia Water Department as an engineer on the construction of the Lehigh Avenue Tunnel. Then it was on to military service. Upon discharge, he took a position with Kenny Construction Company, rising to project manager.

In 1973, he joined W. J. Lazynski Company of Milwaukee and worked for them for five years on several tunnel projects in Wisconsin and Illinois. In 1978, he returned to Kenny as a project manager working on tunnels and shafts in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Texas, and Canada. In 1990, he was appointed project manager on the $194 Mil. TARP Calumet Tunnel System in Chicago. In 1994, he was promoted to Vice President and Manager of the Tunnel Division. The Calumet Tunnel was followed by two additional TARP projects. The combined three projects had a value of $475 Mil. and consisted of 111,000 L.F. of mined and concreted tunnels. More recent projects include the $257 Mil. ECIS Project in Los Angeles and currently the $130 Mil. Brightwater – East Contract in Seattle, Washington, just getting underway.

In addition to the projects performed or sponsored by Kenny Construction Company, he was Kenny’s representative on a number of non sponsored Joint Venture projects, including the Boston Deer Island Outfall Tunnel, the Vermont Hollywood Subway in Los Angeles and several WMATA projects in Washington, D.C.

Ted has always moved his office to where the work is going on, first to Los Angeles and now to Seattle, Washington. He has earned a reputation for motivating people, being a stickler for detail and developing an integrated, mechanized, highly productive construction scheme for all facets of a tunnel project.

He was honored with the 2000 Golden Beaver Award for Supervision and as the Outstanding Individual in Underground Construction by the AUA.