Best of 2004

Welcome to our annual "Best of 2004" award edition. It's an exciting time for us as we see the fruits of the industry's labor during the past year and this year was no different. Our regional juries of judges reviewed 146 projects, a record amount of submissions.

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Arizona led the way with a record 90 submissions, up from 45 in 2003.
Nevada builders submitted 29 projects, down from 35 in 2003. In New Mexico, judges saw 27 project, also down from 35. This year, there were a total of 51 winners in the three states.

Every year, we assemble a jury in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Judges are chosen based on their industry experience and specialty. We include architects, engineers, general contractors and subcontractors on all juries.
The editor would like to thank the following people for taking the time to sit on our jury:

Arizona Jury
Ken Schacherbauer of Perini; Mark Soyster of Pulice Construction; Joshua Smith of Weitz Cos.; Peter Kunka of Kunka Engineering; Steve Kennedy of Richard and Bauer; Heather Kincaid of Carter Burgess; Bill Corbin of Corbins Electric and John Tieman of Maverick Masonry.

Nevada Jury:
Steve Schiller of Martin & Peltyn Inc.; David Pugsley of Welles Pugsley Architects; Steve Swisher, Swisher Hall Architects; Mitch Adamic, Kitchell Contractors; Bill Curfman of CORE Construction; Rick Ewing of Las Vegas Paving and Bill Mason of Taylor International.

New Mexico Jury:
Jason Harrington of HB Construction; Rick Tavelli of Bradbury Stamm Construction; Steven Perich of Dekker/Perich/Sabatini; Don May of Rodhe, May Keller McNamara Architects; Nancy Bartlett of Custer Baserich and Bruce Higgins of Tom Growney Equipment.

The editor would also like to thank the Arizona Contractors' Association, the Las Vegas Associated General Contractors and the New Mexico building branch of the AGC for graciously hosting our juries.

I invite our readers to attend our annual "Best of 2004/Outook 2005 events. The event is scheduled for Dec. 7 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and Dec. 9 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix.

Best of Arizona
Best of Nevada
Best of New Mexico
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