St. Louis, Mo., January 12, 2010 – Scott Wilson recently received the 2009 Diversity Champion Award by the St. Louis Council for Construction Consumers (STCCC) in recognition of his extensive efforts to promote diversity in the local construction industry.  SLCCC represents owners who are major buyers of construction in the St. Louis region. It provides leadership to improve cost and quality in delivery of capital facilities and maintenance by the St. Louis design and construction industry.

SLCCC honored Wilson for leveraging his position as President of S. M. Wilson & Co. to build numerous partnerships among key business organizations to achieve diversity goals. As Chair of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) Board, he led the organization to fund a new staff position for Diversity Initiatives to recruit for the Construction Careers Center and to actively recruit women and minority owned firms to AGC. He also chairs the Regional Business Council Diversity Committee and has been instrumental with securing funding for its Career Coaching Program. In addition, Wilson personally mentors and coaches minority owned contractors.

“Scott has helped insure solid recruitment for the Construction Careers Center charter high school, actively recruit MBE/WBE/DBE participants who can take advantage of the full range of AGC services, and facilitate more diverse and inclusive participation at all AGC events,” said Len Toenjes, AGC President.

S. M. Wilson is a full-service construction management and general contracting firm, with headquarters in St. Louis, a full-service office in Kansas City and Rollins Construction Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of S. M. Wilson, in Indianapolis.  S. M. Wilson is one of the largest general construction and construction management contractors in the St. Louis area, and was named a ‘2006 Business of the Year’ by St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay.  The company posted more than $515 million in 2008 revenues, and ranks 168th in Engineering News-Record’s 2008 list of Top 400 commercial contractors nationwide. The St. Louis and Kansas City offices have been publicly recognized as a ‘Best Places To Work’ in their respective cities by The St. Louis and Kansas City Business Journals.

Founded in 1921, the company has built a reputation for high quality of work and outstanding financial and general project management expertise. The company is a proud member of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis and the Associated Builders and Contractors Heart of America Chapter, as well as the Construction Management Association of America, North America's only organization dedicated exclusively to the professional interests of construction program management.