Robert E. Yoakum Award
NPCA’s highest honor, the Robert E. Yoakum Award, is named for the individual who in 1965 played a key role in creating the National Precast Concrete Association. The award is presented annually to an individual who has made a significant contribution to furthering the mission of NPCA and to advancing the precast concrete industry.
2023 Honoree
Richard Isaacson, iwi Concrete Equipment Group
Previous Honorees
- 2022 – Lisa Roache
- 2021 – Barry Fleck
- 2020 – Gene Martin
- 2019 – Don Jensen
- 2018 – Howard Wingert
- 2017 – Andy Wieser
- 2016 – Mark Thompson
- 2015 – Chuck Babbert
- 2014 – Dominic Girotti
- 2013 – Mike Vaughn
- 2012 – Roland Lindsay
- 2011 – Darryl Cloud
- 2010 – Dan Barbour
- 2009 – Ty E. Gable
- 2008 – Joan Blecha
- 2007 – Mel Marshall
- 2006 – Mary Beth Rainero
- 2005 – John Lendrum
- 2004 – Jim Westhoff
- 2003 – Scott Ditcher
- 2002 – Greg Chase and Bobbie Lincoln-Chase
- 2001 – Tim Gesaman
- 2000 – No Award Given
- 1999 – Leonard Worden
- 1998 – Harry W. Hayward
- 1997 – Charles Rainero
- 1996 – James Skinner
- 1995 – Thomas Shank
- 1994 – Daneen Barbour
- 1993 – Nina Courter
- 1992 – No Award Given
- 1991 – Janet L. Walton and Fred C. Heitman
- 1990 – John (Jack) Ditcher
- 1989 – George C. Gasperson Jr.
- 1988 – Theodore W. Coons
- 1987 – Arlo Breidenbaugh Jr.
- 1986 – Nelson A. Meneley
- 1985 – Lin Hendricks Jr.
- 1984 – Lester O. Smith Jr.
- 1983 – Anthony P. Inderwick
- 1982 – Jay I. Rasplicka
- 1981 – Joseph Wieser
- 1980 – Frank M. Brooks
- 1979 – Robert W. Walton Jr.
- 1978 – Donald E. Baxter
- 1977 – E.C. Babbert and Donald Papineau
- 1976 – J.T. Lendrum
- 1975 – Willard E. Thorn
- 1974 – James R. Barbour
- 1973 – Frank Moeller
- 1972 – William Coons
- 1971 – Robert Lochow
- 1970 – Hal Thurmond
- 1969 – Donald Kohl
- 1968 – A. Tait Given
- 1967 – Douglas G. Hoskin