Member Awardee

Salvatore Mancini, was born in a small town outside Rome, Italy on September 24, 1944 and came to the United States at age 13, where he joined his father who had emigrated three years earlier. His father worked as a construction laborer (member of local union 731). His mother joined the family, then living in the Bronx, in 1961.

Sal graduated from Evander Childs High School in the Bronx and immediately got into construction, working for his uncle who had a small construction company. After that, he joined Consulting Engineer, Goodkind & O’Dea, working in a survey party as an instrument man on a Staten Island rapid transit project. After two years, he joined Underpinning & Foundation Company in 1968, where he worked for seven years as a construction superintendent, before joining Slattery Construction Company.

During his early career with Slattery, he was on a myriad of projects: the Second Avenue Subway; the foundations for Co-op City; large water pollution projects in Syracuse, New York; and massive commuter tunnels and subways in Philadelphia. During this period, he attended college at night, ultimately earning his civil engineering degree at City College.

In 1988, he was promoted to Vice President, and in 1990 was elevated to Senior Vice President, responsible for all field operations. Soon afterwards, he became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and in 2001 was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Skanska USA Civil, one of the four largest heavy civil contractors in the United Sates.

Recent projects performed by Skanska USA Civil are located all over the country: the Air Train at JFK Airport; the Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, South Carolina; Escambia Bridge in Pensacola, Florida; Prado Dam in Southern, California; the transportation Hub at the World Trade Center; and the recently awarded 2nd Avenue Subway project in New York City.

Sal has been honored by the Concrete Industry Board in 2001 with its Leader of Industry Award and by the New York Building Congress with its Leadership Award in Construction in 2006. He is a member of the Construction Round Table; The Beavers; and a long standing member and officer of The General Contractors Association.

Sal and his wife, Julie, reside in Armonk, New York and have three grown sons, Gregory, Christopher and Stephen. During his leisure time, Sal enjoys playing golf and spending time with his three grandchildren.