On January 25th, HMH Builders was inducted into the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce's Business Hall of Fame. This award recognizes local businesses for their longtime and significant contributions to the economic benefit, civic growth and well-being of our community, as well as excellence in business leadership and dedication to fostering a quality environment for others to work and live. All Business Hall of Fame award recipients are companies that have made the six-county Sacramento region their choice for business operations for more than 50 years.

"I was congratulated several times as if I had done all the work," stated Dave Higgins, Jr. as he accepted the award on behalf of HMH Builders. "I just accepted the award on behalf of everyone. Many people preceded us and worked hard to build up the small company that Bob Harbison and Don Mahony started, and all of our current employees work together to make our company thrive."

Using SewerGEMS and SewerCAD, Swinerton Management & Consulting used well-developed GIS data to identify problem areas. The hydraulic model created was used in presentations to both the Richmond city engineer and the Richmond Redevelopment Authority. In both cases, with the help of the model, it took only 10 minutes for the decision to be reached that the sanitary sewer line needed to be replaced.

To view more information on the honor click the link below:

2007 BE Award Finalist: Swinerton Management and Consulting

The New Belgium Brewery Packaging Hall was an ABC Rocky Mountain Chapter 2007 EIC Award Winner, honored with a Specialty Contractor Award of Excellence.

Please click on the link below to read about the CBE Livable Awards Program:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/10/23_livableawards.shtml

On September 20th, the Los Angeles Chapter of the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) held their annual awards dinner to celebrate excellence in local construction management services. The Los Angeles Office of Swinerton Management & Consulting was honored with a Silver Circle Member of the Year Award for continued excellence in the field of construction management, as well as continued support and participation in both local and national CMAA events and initiatives. The history of CMAA and SMC in Los Angeles has been intertwined for years, providing mutual opportunities for the promotion and enhancement of leadership, professionalism and excellence in construction management.

Founded in 1976, California Preservation Foundation (CPF) is California's only statewide non-profit historic preservation education, advocacy and membership organization, and recognizes the best in historic preservation projects through its annual Preservation Design Awards.

The 24th annual CPF awards event was held on September 15th at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco and Altenheim Senior Housing Phase I received a 2007 Partners in Preservation Award from the Oakland Heritage Alliance.

Swinerton Builders Los Angeles receives "2007 CMAA Award" for the Mark Twain Library for the City of Long Beach. The project is LEED Silver Certified.

• The Westfield San Francisco Centre wins "Award of Excellence in Historic Preservation"
• The University of Merced at Central Plant & Telecommunications Facility wins "Award of Merit in Sustainable Design"

The Construction Writers Association presented Mark Gudenas and Bill LaBranche with two top Marketing Communications Awards.

In the Corporate Communications category, the Swinerton 6 x 6 brochure was named best in class, and in the Advertising category, the Swinerton ad for the Annual Boy Scouts of America Lunch-O-Ree, "Building Great Cities," took the top honor.

 In the 37th Annual Creativity Awards, which received over 2,700 entries from 37 countries, the Swinerton 6 x 6 brochure was honored with a Silver Award in the brochure category.

Swinerton Builders of Colorado received AGC Colorado's 2007 "Silver Award of Merit for Contribution to the Community" for Cougar Construction Club. 

Colorado began its "Adopt-A-School" program in Colorado in the fall of 2005 and continued with a second annual program in the fall of 2006. Swinerton adopted Columbine Elementary School at 29th and Elizabeth in Denver.

The 18 students of the Cougar Construction Club (a name selected by the students in the first year program) met with Swinerton staff every Monday after school. Swinerton Builders initiated the Adopt-A-School program in its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, and two other programs were successfully started in Southern California. This Colorado foray marks the first program outside of California.

The American Public Works Association's Northern California Chapter named Swinerton Builders 2007 Contractor of the Year for Swinerton's seismic upgrade of the 1950s Oakland Police Administration Building.

Congratulations to the project teams of San Diego's renovation of The US Grant and UCSD Hillcrest Hospital Renovation projects! Both are winners in California Construction magazine's "Best of California 2006" year-end issue. The primary focus of the submission entries to this competition was the challenges that the project teams faced, and their successful resolution. The Best of California 2006 Awards were presented on December 7th at the Renaissance Long Beach Hotel.

California Construction honored three Northern California projects with "Best of California 2006" Awards:

• de Young Museum "Top Overall Construction Project" and "Outstanding Architectural Design"
• Presentation Center Dining Hall in Los Gatos named "Best Green Building"
• Stockton Events Center "Best Civic Project" 

2006: AIA California Design Merit Award

2006: AGC California Constructor Awards "Excellence in Project Management" Project Over 5 million category

2006: AGC of California "Safety Award of Excellence" Individual High Hazard Job category

2006: California Constructor Magazine "Best Of California Award of Merit" 

Swinerton Builders San Diego was honored with an Alfonzo Award from the Downtown San Diego Partnership for contributing to the advancement of Downtown San Diego for their work on the US Grant Renovation project.

On November 3rd, the 2006 Design Award of Merit was given to the Placer County Land Development Building, located in Auburn, CA and built by HMH. This prestigious award is only given every two years by the AIA Central Valley Chapter.

The 97,000-square-foot, two-story building houses Placer County's planning and buildings departments, along with all of the associated administrative spaces and hearing rooms for public meetings. The building is constructed of a steel frame with full brick exterior and metal roof and is located on a 6.9-acre site. The project architect was Williams + Paddon, Inc., of Roseville.