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Pacesetter Awards

2011 Pacesetter Award Winners

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A Sarasota, Fla., custom builder finds a side gig in expert witness work

Diversification Strategy: Serving as an expert witness.

When he's not building beautiful custom homes, Michael K. Walker provides expert witness testimony.

 
 
 
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John Abrams established an energy services division to help boost business

A pioneering green custom builder stays at the forefront of a rapidly developing field.


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A Napa, Calif., Custom Builder Diversifies Into Commercial Work

Mark Grassi builds wineries and restaurants as well as custom residences.


 
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Small Projects Prove Big Advantage for Mid-Atlantic Custom Builder

ILEX Construction & Woodworking's services division has helped carry the company through the recession.


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Tonic Design brings cutting-edge architecture to the design/build model

Vincent Petrarca's design/build firm competes with top architects in design and with luxury tract builders on cost.


 

2010 Pacesetter Awards

  • Staffer Andrew Morphis performs a blower door test on a renovation designed and built by Green Hammer for the owner of the local woodworking shop The Joinery.

    Stephen Aiguier

    Portland, Ore.-based Green Hammer views green building through a holistic lens.

     
  • Joe Smallwood

    Joe Smallwood

    Joe Smallwood builds durable, low-maintenance, energy efficient houses that still put his high-end clients in the lap of luxury.

     
  • Peter Kilpatrick

    Life on an island creates an acute awareness of the need for conservation.

     
 

2008 Pacesetter Awards

  • Jeff and Richard Stone

    With degrees in construction management, economics, and business administration, brothers Jeff and Rich Stone bring an impressive...

     
  • Michael Chad Loper

    No one knows more about making lemons from lemonade than Chad Loper. The coastal Alabama builder found his entire community devastated by...

     
  • Craig Rakowski

    Wauwatosa, Wis., builder Craig Rakowski felt good about his company's customer service program. But he also knew there must be ways to make...

     

2007 Pacesetter Awards

  • Chris Ettel

    About 10 years ago, Chris Ettel and his employees found a way to help their community, their industry, and their own company at the same...

     
  • Ramon H. Garcia

    A building company's customer service program depends on continuity.

     
  • Tim Frost

    When Tim Frost decided to shift his custom building and remodeling company to the design/build model, he had already been in business for...

     
 

2006 Pacesetter Awards

  • Guy Loisi

    In the Scottsdale, Ariz., area where Guy Loisi works, it is common for general contractors to employ no more than a supervisory site crew.

     
  • Clayton Nishikawa

    Maui, Hawaii, architect Clayton Nishikawa would have been perfectly content to design custom homes and leave the building to somebody else...

     
  • Jim Murphy

    Building a fine custom home is a complex and exacting task; building a business to repeat that performance on a routine basis is a whole...

     

2005 Pacesetter Awards

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    Mark A. Perlman

    Mark Perlman has spent 23 years in the home building business—23 successful years, at that.

     
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    Jerry Bonner

    During the summer of 2003, Jerry Bonner started in on the biggest house he'd ever built.

     
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    Andrew Wright Suman

    Röhe & Wright Builders made a gutsy decision in 2004.

     
 

2004 Pacesetter Awards

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    Keith Shelly

    “I would be building homes whether or not I needed to do it for a living,” Keith Shelly says of the profession that has been his passion...

     
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    Michael Cook

    As a land developer, Michael Cook saw firsthand the damage that bad customer relations could have on a building company.

     
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    Steve and Betty Nickel

    For Steve and Betty Nickel, the task of designing a house and the task of building it have always been inseparable.

     
 

2002 Pacesetter Awards

2001 Pacesetter Awards

 
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