Patrick Bush Receives MCA's 2010 Swaney Award

Pat Bush, left, accepts the 2010 Larry Swaney award from Jeff Irwin, MCA president. (photo courtesy of MCA).

Naples, FL — At the Metal Construction Association’s Annual Meeting in Naples, Florida, Patrick R. Bush, recently retired from United States Steel Corporation, was awarded MCA’s 2010 Larry A. Swaney Award.

The Swaney Award was created in 2002 in honor of one of MCA's founders and its first president. Swaney was totally committed to the mission and success of the association so to keep his spirit alive, MCA each year honors others in the industry who have shown similar dedication and achievement.

Past Swaney Award winners were: John Mattingly in 2003; Sam W. Milnark in 2004; Bill Croucher in 2005; Harold Schroth in 2006 and Del Boring in 2008.

Bush began his career with U.S. Steel Corporation while still in college. He graduated from Waynesburg University with a degree in Business Administration and was hired by U.S. Steel in 1967. He consistently moved up the ladder from that point on.

Bush’s involvement with the American Iron and Steel Institute began with the Fabricated Pipe and Tank Committee in 1991, which he later chaired. He served as chairman of the OSHA-SENRAC Steel Coalition that included AISI, the Steel Deck Institute, Steel Joist Institute, Metal Construction Association and the Metal Building Manufacturers Association.

Bush became a member of MCA in 1995 and served on its board of directors for five years. His proudest accomplishment with MCA, he says, is helping the association get co-funding with AISI for the Metal Roofing Alliance (MRA) and The Metal Initiative (TMI). He acted as the liaison between MCA and AISI and he was on the committee that created the business plans for both MRA and TMI.

About The MCA

Founded in 1983, MCA has as its mission "expanding the use of metal in construction through marketing, technology, and education." MCA is an industry-wide vehicle through which members of the metal in construction industry can develop and implement both macro and microprograms and activities to more widely promote the use of metal in construction.

The MCA offers industry members an unusual opportunity to effectively coordinate and focus industry efforts to achieve expansion of the use of metal through innovation in the areas of marketing, technology, and education. To learn more, visit www.metalconstruction.org.