For the second year of the Legacy Award program, ENR Southeast recognizes one of the Atlanta area’s most well-known and respected builders, Bill Pinto. As people who know the retired leader of the former Hardin Construction Co. can attest, Pinto certainly meets the Legacy Award’s criteria for an award recipient to “have established a solid ‘legacy’ of lifetime service to the A/E/C industry and to their colleagues—true professionals who have gone above and beyond for decades.”
In a 39-year tenure with Hardin Construction Co., Pinto served as chief operating officer and principal before retiring as president in 2013, shortly before DPR Construction acquired the Atlanta-based builder. Over that time, Pinto not only guided the former Ira H. Hardin Co.—the firm’s name when he joined the contractor in 1974—into one of the Southeast’s more prominent and respected construction companies, he also built a personal reputation for service to industry organizations and community groups.