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Michael
Sean Wedding
Michael Sean Wedding
received the 2007 Young Construction Engineer of the Year award.
Michael Sean Wedding was born
July 14, 1973 in Morganfield, Kentucky. He is the youngest of seven
children born to Sue Mary and David Thomas Wedding. He grew up on a
family farm where his parents taught him the importance of family, hard
work, and the values of life.
Mike attended St. Ann Catholic School until eighth grade and then Union
County High School where he graduated in 1991. While growing up, Mike
enjoyed all sports, lettering in football, basketball, and baseball
during high school. The fall of 1991, he enrolled in Henderson Community
College and spent two years there completing undergraduate studies before
transferring to the University of Kentucky in 1993. Here he enrolled
in the Civil Engineering Department of the College of Engineering.
He was a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, Chi Epsilon National Honor Society, Tau
Beta Pi National Honor Society, Golden Key National Honor Society, and
Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society. In 1996, Mike graduated with
a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering with an emphasis on
construction management. During high school and college, Mike worked
his way through school managing his own hauling business in the hay
fields of Western Kentucky. This experience not only paid his way through
school, but also was a foundation for the leadership opportunities in
the years to come.
After graduation, Mike accepted a position with Messer Construction
as project engineer.
He would work for the next three years as a field engineer in the Central
Kentucky area, learning the
construction industry before being assigned his first job as project
manager, the $3 million Bluegrass
Medical Pavilion in Lexington, Kentucky. Other projects he led included
the Nicholasville Aquatics Facility,
Lexmark renovations, and multiple projects at Berea College, including
the Berea College Ecovillage, which
was a $6 million Green Building project. For the past three years, Mike
has had the opportunity to serve his alma mater and build on the University
of Kentucky campus. Mike was a project manager for the $35 million
UK Student Housing dormitories, which won the 2005 AGC Build Kentucky
Award. He is currently
the project manager for the $26 million UK Memorial Coliseum Basketball
Practice Facility.
Mike's next project will again
be for the University in which he will be the project manager for the
$105 million plus College of Pharmacy research building. These opportunities
have allowed Mike to grow as an effective leader of complex construction
projects as well as be a part of some very exciting experiences.
Of all the fortunate opportunities, Mike is most proud of his young
and exciting family. In high school,
Mike met his wife-to-be, Christi Ann Greenwell. After dating through
college, the two were married on
August 14, 1999. They have been blessed with two wonderful and fun children,
Luke, 5, and Anna Lucy,
3. The Weddings live in Lexington, Kentucky and are members of St. Elizabeth
Ann Seton Catholic
Church where both children attend pre-school. The family spends time
with soccer, baseball, riding bikes,
and simply just playing and being together.
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