Jones

Gary D. Jones is a charter member of the National Academy of Construction. He earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Carnegie Tech University. Upon graduation, Gary was hired by Rust Engineering in Pittsburgh, PA.

In the early 1970s, Rust reassigned Gary to company headquarters in Birmingham, AL. By the early 1980s he was a company vice president. When Rust merged with Kellogg to form Kellogg-Rust, he was named president of construction.

In October 1983, Kellogg-Rust joined the Construction Industry Institute as a charter member. Gary was elected to serve as the chairman of the first Construction Industry Institute (CII) Annual Conference. The CII Board of Advisors then elected Gary to serve as CII chairman in 1987. He worked as a high-level executive for four different CII member companies, emphasized implementation at each one, and influenced the way those companies execute engineering and construction projects.

He and his wife, Nancy, live in Birmingham, AL.