Building Congress & Exchange Honors Baltimore’s Award-Winning Craftsmen
The Building Congress & Exchange honored more than 50 talented craftsmen within 11 categories at the 83rd Annual Craftsmanship Awards held October 14 at the Mt. Washington Mill Dye House. The winners represented 19 companies in the Baltimore Metropolitan area.
The Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant and Sheppard Pratt Health System Behavioral Health each won an Overall Building Award honoring general contractors Clark/Ulliman Schutte and Lewis Contractors respectively.
In addition, the BC&E Foundation awarded $1,000 scholarships to four promising high school students who are pursuing careers, training or degrees in the construction and design fields. This year’s winners are from different high schools but all are honing their skills at the Carroll County Career and Technology Center.
The Craftsmanship Awards have been a long-standing tradition honoring and recognizing exemplary craftsmanship within the construction industry.
This year, BC&E received 40 nominations, which were each carefully reviewed by our 11-person Craftsmanship Committee. The winners were determined based on quality of work, the complexity of both technical and design challenges and the level of difficulty from certain conditions.
A complete list of winners is down below.
83rd ANNUAL CRAFTSMANSHIP AWARD WINNERS
CRAFTSMANSHIP AWARD WINNERS
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL PHASE 2 CAMPUS ENHANCEMENT
Power Generation, Distribution and Switchgear
The Team at Windsor Electric
General Contractor: Clark Construction Group, LLC
LAWYER’S MALL
Cast-in-place Concrete
Juan Garcia of Chevy Chase Contractors LLC
General Contractor: North Point Builders of Maryland, LLC
Exterior Stone
Michael Geisler and Aldolfo Martinez of Rugo Stone, LLC
General Contractor: North Point Builders of Maryland, LLC
THE BACK RIVER WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Unit Masonry
The Team at KaRon Masonry
General Contractor: Clark/Ulliman Schutte
Cast-in-Place Concrete
The Team at Clark Concrete
General Contractor: Clark/Ulliman Schutte
Process Mechanical
The Team at Ulliman Schutte
General Contractor: Clark/Ulliman Schutte
THE OLNEY THEATRE BLACK BOX ADDITION/RENOVATION
Lighting Systems
Mike Bickford of Hirsch Electric, LLC.
General Contractor: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Architectural Millwork
The Team at JPK & Associates, Inc.
General Contractor: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
6721 LOBBY RENOVATION
Metal Fabrication, Drywall, Rough Carpentry
Russ Colwell of Avena Contracting, LLC.
General Contractor: Plano-Coudon Construction
JHU STIEFF SILVER MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION & PROCESSING FACILITY
Power generation, Distribution and Switchgear
The Team at Windsor Electric
General Contractor: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FACILITY
Flooring
Michael Beasley Corridor Flooring Associates
General Contractor: Lewis Contractors
HVAC and Plumbing
Troy Hood of EMJAY Engineering & Construction Co., Inc.
General Contractor: Lewis Contractors
Power Generation, Distribution and Switchgear
Mike Demario and Jeremy Johnston of DEL Electric
General Contractor: Lewis Contractors
Drywall and Acoustical Ceilings
Luis Caballero of HDL Construction, Inc.
General Contractor: Lewis Contractors
Unit Masonry and exterior stone
Shawn Collins of Henry J. Knott Masonry, Inc.
General Contractor: Lewis Contractors
ANNAPOLIS POST OFFICE
Architectural Millwork
Jeff Batleman of Montgomery Refinishing Service, Inc.
General Contractor: North Point Builders of Maryland, LLC
Plaster
Donnell McLeod and Sandro Camargo of Hayles and Howe, Inc.
General Contractor: North Point Builders of Maryland, LLC
Interior Stone and Marble
Jose Alonzo Ramirez and Thomas Doyle, Jr, of HILGARTNER Natural Stone Company, Inc.
General Contractor: North Point Builders of Maryland, LLC
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CAPITAL REGION MEDICAL CENTER
Flooring
Mike Tufaro and Jose Sanchez of Source One Flooring
General Contractor: Construction Group, LLC
ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE – HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES BUILDING
Curtainwall, Storefront, Sunshades, Metal Panels, & Terra Cotta
The Team at Alliance Exterior Construction, Inc.
General Contractor: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
OVERALL BUILDING AWARD WINNERS
THE BACK RIVER WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
General Contractor: Clark/Ulliman Schutte
SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FACILITY
General Contractor: Lewis Contractors
FUTURE CRAFTSMAN & DESIGN AWARD WINNERS
John Alcorn, Winters Mill High School (Welding)
Spencer Armitage, Winters Mill High School (Electrical Construction)
Justin Pfoutz, Manchester Valley High School (Masonry)
Emma Santoro, Century High School (Drafting)
Welcome your 2021 BC&E Board of Directors!
The slate of nominees for the Building Congress & Exchange Board of Directors was recently approved. We present to you the 2021 BC&E Board Members:
2021 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President: Wayne Matheu, Matheu & Associates
Vice President: Michael Martin, Live Green Landscape Associates
Treasurer: Ted Bowes, Excell Concrete Construction
Secretary: Rick Scheetz, Gray & Son/Maryland Paving Management, Inc.
2021 DIRECTORS
Marianne Crampton, MK Consulting Engineers
R. Nelson Oster, HMS Insurance Associates, Inc.
Mark Rich, Baltimore Fabrication
The new directors join board members John Gregg, GWWO Architects; Jonathan Goetz, Oak Contracting; Jeff Hossfeld, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company; Thomas Koch, Plano-Coudon Construction; Fred Marino, Design Collective, Inc.; Joseph Rode, The Mullan Contracting Company and Craig Smith, Wohlsen Construction Company.
Directors Tom Iacoboni, Iacoboni Site Specialists, Inc. and Trey Kistler, G.E. Tignall & Company, Inc. will retire after their three-year term ends on Dec. 31. 2020 has certainly been a challenging year. But we would like to thank our Board of Directors, Partners and Members for their continued support to make the Building Congress & Exchange the premier construction industry association in the region.
Building Congress & Exchange Recognizes Craftsmen with Annual Awards
(Hanover, Md. Nov. 9, 2020) –– The Building Congress & Exchange (BC&E) honored and recognized the extraordinary skill and talent from the construction and design industry at the 82nd Annual Craftsmanship Awards on Nov. 5 held virtually. The winners represent all facets of the industry.
Earlier this year, members of the BC&E Craftsmanship Committee judged 35 nominations that ranged from specialty painting and lighting to HVAC, carpentry, stone and iron work. Each nominated work was judged based on overall craftsmanship including the quality of work, complexity of both technical and design challenges and the level of difficulty.
While the arrival of COVID-19 in March and the restrictions that followed eliminated the possibility of an in-person celebration, the Craftsmanship Committee and BC&E had no intention of letting a worldwide pandemic stop the organization’s 80+ year tradition of celebrating the best in craftsmanship.
“From the beginning of this pandemic, our industry was deemed essential — and that’s for a reason,” said Craftsmanship Committee Chair Thomas Koch of Plano-Coudon Construction. “The construction industry is the foundation of our community. The men and women who create, build, refurbish and rejuvenate our communities are essential.”
A complete list of winners is below.
This year, BC&E also inducted two craftsmen into the Master Craftsmen category. David Contrino of Henry J. Knott Masonry, Inc. and Vern Quesenberry of Ruff Roofers, Inc. have both earned five craftsmanship awards during their careers, putting them into this elite group.
In addition, BC&E recognized three Overall Buildings: Maximón (General Contractor: F.M. Harvey Construction Co., Inc.); Dundalk Elementary School Replacement (General Contractor: North Point Builders of Maryland, LLC); and Mercy Medical Center – Bunting 17 COVID Fit Out (General Contractor: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company). This awards category gives much-deserved recognition to the general contractors that make the projects happen.
During the event, the Building Congress & Exchange Foundation also honored three promising high school students with the Future Craftsman and Design Award: Jacob Bently of Lansdowne High School for electrical; Thomas Krieger of Liberty High School for welding; and Sean Marlatt of Century High School for HVAC. In addition to recognition for their achievements, these students also receive scholarships to pursue further training, degrees or to purchase supplies to begin work in the construction or design field.
A full recording of the event can be found on the BC&E YouTube Channel.
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