At the end of the Summer we attended the 2011 Concrete Foundations Association of North America (CFA) Summer Convention in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.
Project of the Year
While there our company accepted the Project of the Year Award for the best Above-grade Concrete Home. This is a 12,000 sq. ft. Italian influenced above-grade concrete house that we constructed near New Orleans, LA.
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| Stucco will be applied to our exterior concrete walls. |
It is a two story home with a Terrace Level (walkout basement). It has two 2-car garages, with one of the 2-car garages on a structural concrete slab to allow more space in the Terrace Level. The rear porch is an elevated structural concrete slab.
The exterior walls utilized the Thermomass® insulated concrete sandwich wall product. The wall makeup was 4” concrete on the exterior/2” rigid insulation/4” concrete on the interior. Stucco will be applied to the exterior wall surface while plaster will be applied to the interior.
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| Barry Herbert (left) and Mike Hancock of Basement Contractors, Inc. (right) accept the Project of the Year Award from Ed Sauter of the CFA. |
Our project was selected among outstanding entries from across North America. The entries were reviewed and voted on by industry experts as well as many of the 50,000 attendees at the World of Concrete show/convention in Las Vegas.
The award is given each year by the Concrete Foundations Association of North America for the best above-grade concrete home.
This project was a joint venture between Herbert Construction Co. and Basement Contractors, Inc., our good friends in Edmund, Oklahoma. Among other things, they performed the excavation and placed the flatwork.
Robert D. Sawyer Award
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| Barry Herbert (left) and Scott Smith of MPW Construction Services (right) present the Robert D. Sawyer Distinguished Service Award to Terry Lavy of Piqua, Ohio. |
Also at the Convention, Barry Herbert, CEO of Herbert Construction Company was a co-presenter of the Robert D. Sawyer Distinguished Service Award to Terry Lavy of Piqua, Ohio.
The award is presented to a contractor member whose contributions to the industry merit special recognition. Barry is a past recipient of the award.
Marketing Presentation
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| Doug sharing marketing methods during his presentation at the convention |
During the educational seminars at the Convention, Doug Herbert gave a marketing presentation to the attendees titled, "How To Reduce Your Advertising Costs And Increase Your Sales With Effective Marketing." It included a special segment that explained how contractors can easily and cheaply outsource tasks without hiring another employee.
If you’d like a copy of that PowerPoint presentation, including a funny audio of “Arnold Schwarzenegger” addressing the crowd, send a quick email to Chris at our office, ChristineB@HerbertConstruction.com.