Vermont's Connor Homes sweeps awards at national awards program

Connor Homes received a national home building accolade, capturing the three award(s) or honorable mention(s) in the 2010 BSC Excellence in Home Design and Marketing Awards program. The honor was awarded by the Building Systems Councils (BSC) of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)—a trade association that represents the concrete, log, modular, and panelized building system industries—at their annual awards program on November 2, 2009.
Sponsored by the NAHB Building Systems Councils, the BSC Excellence in Marketing and Home Design Awards has promoted excellence in the systems-built housing industry for more than ten years. All winners were announced at an awards luncheon in Marco Island, Fla., held in conjunction with the BSC SHOWCASE event—the leading trade show and conference based centered on the systems-built housing industry. Home manufacturers, builders and industry associates were among the groups recognized.
“This year’s award winners like Connor Homes prove that even in a slow housing market, the systems-built industry is raising the bar in residential marketing and home design concepts,” said BSC Chairman Michael H. Weber with Lancaster Redevelopment Corp. “Our award winners are adding credibility to their businesses and shedding a positive light on the building systems industry as a whole.”
The annual BSC Excellence Awards are judged by a panel of industry experts and companies like Connor Homes were given praise for the quality of their submittals.
“It is truly an honor to receive the BSC Excellence Award for three homes in the Excellence in Home Design categories,” said Michael C. Connor, CEO. “At Connor Homes, we strive to provide innovative, practical housing solutions using Mill-built technologies and traditional architectural design and detailing. This award shows the hard work and vision of the Connor Homes’ dedicated employees.
Awards received by Connor Homes were:
· Winner – Excellence in Home Design: Panelized Home 4,000 plus square feet for a shingle style home built in Richmond, Massachusetts.
· Winner – Excellence in Home Design: Panelized Home 2,301-4,000 square feet for a Colonial Revival home built in Panton, Vermont.
· Honorable Mention – Excellence in Home Design: Panelized Home under 2,301 square feet for a Barn-inspired Cottage in Ferrisburg, Vermont.
For a complete list of winning companies and projects, including Connor Homes, visit www.nahb.org/2010bscawardwinners. For additional images and information on these homes please visit: http://blog.connorbuilding.com/connor-homes-honored-by-national-awards-p....
Award winners were announced to a crowd of nearly 300 systems-built industry professionals at the awards luncheon. Winners received plaques to commemorate their efforts. They will be featured in upcoming editions of NAHB’s e-newspaper, Nation’s Building News. Some projects will also be on display on the BSC Awards Wall at the 2010 International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas.
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ABOUT CONNOR HOMES: At Connor Homes we have a unique approach to building new homes. Our 40 years in the residential building business have enabled us to couple our wealth of experience in historic architectural design and construction with a state of the art manufacturing process so that we offer the exquisite detailing and building proportions of classic architecture at a cost that is affordable to the everyday home buyer. We provide a complete, highly detailed, and historically accurate Mill-built home, and the quality of our homes is unsurpassed, even by the highest level custom site builder.
ABOUT THE BSC: The Building Systems Councils of the National Association of Home Builders is made up of manufacturing, builder, and associate members who advocate building with systems. Systems-built homes are constructed with concrete, log, modular, or panelized systems. They are constructed to the same code standards and reflect the same, and often enhanced, quality levels as any site-built construction. The advantage of systems-building is it’s done in a fraction of the time, with a fraction of the waste, reducing costly weather exposure. Many systems-built homes are inherently “green,” adding an environmentally friendly label to the product.
ABOUT NAHB: The National Association of Home Builders is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing more than 200,000 members involved in home building, remodeling, multifamily construction, property management, subcontracting, design, housing finance, building product manufacturing and other aspects of residential and light commercial construction. Known as "the voice of the housing industry," NAHB is affiliated with more than 800 state and local home builders associations around the country. NAHB's builder members will construct about 80 percent of the new housing units projected for 2009.
Source: Connor Homes. Middlebury, Vermont – January, 2010 –