Member Awardee

Robert E. Alger was born on December 29, 1957, in Hornell, New York.  He attended Arkport Central High School, where he had 49 students in his class, with only two going on to earn a four-year college degree.  He attended SUNY Alfred for two years, earning a degree in Engineering Science and then went on to Penn State University, where he received his Civil Engineering degree in 1979. 

Robert immediately joined the Lane Construction Corporation and in November 1979 was sent to the Lakeview Dam project, south of Dallas, Texas where he served as job engineer.  After the completion of that project, an area office was opened by Lane in Arlington, Texas, which Bob managed until 1984, when he was briefly assigned to the main office in Meriden, CT, before moving on to a series of projects in Erie and Clearfield, Pennsylvania. He was promoted to Project Mana-ger, supervising a 26-mile stretch of Route 80. At the completion of this work in 1990, he went to Pittsburgh, managing four projects around the Pittsburgh Airport. Then, in 1993, he went to Harrisburg, PA, managed a 13 mile section of I-81 and was named District Manager of Lane's work in Pennsylvania.

In 1996, he returned to the main office in Meriden, CT, and was promoted to Vice President. In 2001, upon the retirement of Skip Wetmore, he was named President and CEO of The Lane Construction Corporation. At the time, revenues were $365 Mil, while in 2008, the company's revenues exceeded $1 Bil. The company currently operates in 15 states from Maine to Florida, and also in Texas, and owns and operates 70 asphalt plants, which produce 6 Mil. tons of asphalt per year.

Lane is currently a partner with Fluor Corporation on the largest transportation project ever let in the United States, the $1.35 Bil. HOT Lanes Project in Virginia. The company has recently completed the third parallel runway at Dulles International Airport, a $200 Mil. Project.  All of the current Lane projects are in the transportation sector. 

Bob has served as President of the ASCE Construction Institute; is the incoming Treasurer of the Construction Industry Roundtable; and a member of the Board of The Beavers. In 2006, he received the Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award from the Penn State College of Engineering. He is a Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.

Bob and his wife, Joan, live in Avon,Connecticut and have two children; a daughter, Lauren, a senior in Avon High School, and a son, Robert, Jr., a recent graduate of Purdue University.