Sanvido

Victor Sanvido is senior vice president for Southland Industries, and has been integral to Southland’s innovative lean and design-build project delivery nationally, especially in healthcare. He holds a BS in civil engineering the University of Cape Town and a master’s and a PhD in construction engineering and management from Stanford University.

Victor has been with Southland since 2000 and helped transition the company from a design-bid-build to a design-build-maintain company. Previously, he was a professor and researcher at Penn State University, where he led groundbreaking research sponsored by the Construction Industry Institute that involved a comparative assessment of project delivery systems in the U.S. The results helped to change federal procurement regulations and those in most states in the U.S.

He is a board member and currently chair of the Lean Construction Institute, a former board member of the Charles Pankow Foundation, and an active member of the Design-Build Institute of America and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Victor is the recipient of numerous awards from both academia and professional associations, including ASCE’s Thomas Fitch Rowland Award twice (1989 and 1991).

He and wife, Shawn, have four children: Colleen (Derek), Courtney, Lauren (Matt), and Brian, and three grandchildren, Anderson, Brinkley and Beckett.