Southwest Contractor presents the Best of 2007 Awards

Southwest Contractor’s 10th Annual Competition Honors Best of Southwest

Welcome to Southwest Contractor’s Best of 2007 Awards. This year was the most competitive we’ve seen in our 10 years of hosting these awards. We received an unprecedented 708 entries representing 400 separate construction projects (submitters were allowed to enter their projects in up to three categories).

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Thank you to all of the designers, engineers, contractors, owners and subcontractors who took time from their busy schedules to submit their outstanding projects.

Judging Criteria

Project eligibility was limited to those that were completed between July 2006 and November 2007. Winning projects were chosen on how the following criteria related to the category in which the project was entered: quality of design and construction, innovation, contribution to the community or industry, ability to overcome challenges and overall excellence.
 
A panel of judges was assembled in each state and met in September to select the winning projects. The panel included distinguished representatives from architecture firms, general contractors, engineers, developers, subcontractors and suppliers.

Judges could award a winner in a different category if applicable, or could select no winner if the judges agreed that no project warranted recognition. Any juror who was affiliated with a project abstained from voting.

Southwest Contractor wishes to thank the following professionals who worked extremely hard to bring you this year’s winners:

Southwest Contractor's panel of judges, selected from the local construction community, brings you the most outstanding projects from another record number of submittals this year. In Arizona, over 240 entries in a variety of categories were received. New Mexico also received a record number of submittals, with well over 145 entries considered.

Nevada more than doubled the number of entries last year with 110 this year.

This year's entries showcase a vast array of projects which represent the diversity of our region's design and construction community.

Thank you to all of the companies who took time to prepare and submit entries for this year's competition. Whether it won or not, every entry demonstrated the pride and quality of work being accomplished by talented construction teams across the Southwest.

Project eligibility was limited to those that were completed between August 2005 and December 2006. Winning projects were chosen on the following criteria: quality of design and construction, innovation, contribution to the industry, ability to overcome challenges and overall excellence.

Projects could be submitted in multiple categories. Judges could award a winner in a different category if applicable, or could select no winner if the judges agreed that no project warranted recognition. Any juror who was affiliated with a project abstained from voting on that entry.

The panel of judges included at least one representative from an architecture firm, general contractor, engineer and subcontractor in each state.

Southwest Contractor wishes to thank the following professionals who worked extremely hard to bring you this year's winners.

Arizona Jury

William A. “Wink” Ames, AFSB, ARM, Minard-Ames Insurance Group
Bob Fouty, Archer Western Constructors
Larry Hansen, AMEC
Stephen Hulston, Howard S. Wright Construction
Grant Koepke, MKB Construction
Brent Leif, Hunt Construction Group
Brett Oaks, AIA, DMJM Design
Devra Smith, Salt River Materials Group
Julie Stanton, Stanton Consulting
Gary Worthy, AIA, ASLA, DLR Group
Mark Yalung, PB

Nevada Jury

Rick Ewing, Las Vegas Paving Corp.
Steven C. Goold PE, SE, Wright Engineers
Linda Harris, CCA, L.F. Harris and Co.
Tony Illia, construction writer
Rod Martin, Majestic Realty
Robert Potter, Affordable Concepts
Wade Simpson, AIA, Welles Pugsley Architects
Jozef Ulbrik, Friedmutter
Pamela Vilkin LEED AP, Tradewinds Constr./Greenview Consulting

New Mexico Jury

Chris E. Baca PE, Vector Engineering
Michael L. Case, AIA, Reid & Associates
Chet Karnas, Four Suns Builders
Steven Kells, AIA, Kells + Craig Architects
Miles Kaplanides, Tom Growney Equipment Inc.
Jerry Lucero, CCM, AIA, Parsons-3D/I
Ken Otteni, Miller Bonded
Dawn Tibbetts, PB.

The staff of Southwest Contractor would also like to thank the AGC, Las Vegas Chapter and the New Mexico Building Branch, AGC for graciously hosting our juries.

Come Celebrate With Us

We are pleased to once again partner with the New Mexico chapters of the ACEC and SMPS to hold the awards luncheon for New Mexico at the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid on December 5th. See page 140 for more information on attending.

The Nevada ceremony will be held on Tuesday, December 11th at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel. The Arizona awards will be held at the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix on Thursday, December 13th. See page 37 for more information on those events.

Each winning project is profiled on the following pages. The project teams were provided by the submitting firm, and we have made every attempt to confirm their information. Due to space limitations, not all project participants could be listed.

All photos are courtesy of the project’s submitter, unless otherwise noted.

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