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Florida contractor Jeff Nelson of David Nelson Construction Company has been elected 2024-2025 chair of ARTBA. Nelson's extensive experience in the industry and leadership positions aim to focus on securing transportation funding, advancing policy priorities, and advocating for workforce protection and expansion.
Thu September 26, 2024 - National Edition
Jeff Nelson, president of David Nelson Construction Company, has been elected 2024-2025 chair of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The announcement was made at ARTBA's national convention, held Sept. 22-25 in Amelia Island, Fla.
Nelson has been with Palm Harbor, Fla.-based David Nelson Construction Company (DNCC) since the early 1970's, working for the family business on weekends and during school breaks in any role necessary, from laborer to foreman. He joined the company full-time in 1990 as a project engineer after graduating from the University of Florida.
A heavy/civil and vertical general contractor, DNCC gave Nelson the chance to manage construction activities on everything from airports to zoos to interstates, toll plazas and landmark streetscape projects. He was named president in 2008.
For a quarter-century, Nelson has been an ARTBA leader, serving as senior vice chair, first vice chair, southern region vice chair, board director, Strategic Planning Committee co-chair, Contractors Division president and first vice president, Environmental Committee chair, and Surface Transportation Advisory Council member. He is a 2005 graduate of ARTBA's Industry Leader Development Program. He also was elected 2007 chair of the Florida Transportation Builders' Association (FTBA).
During the convention, Nelson outlined key issues that ARTBA will focus on in the year ahead. Among them:
Nelson has served on the joint Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)/FTBA committee that sponsored the state's first "Construction Career Days." He also is a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Florida and was recently inducted into its School of Construction Management Hall of Fame.
For more information, visit artba.org.