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ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY HOMES GARNER
TOP INDUSTRY AURORA AWARDS
TALLAHASSEE – Builders and designers throughout the Southeast received the prestigious Aurora Awards during an industry gala/spectacular held on Saturday, August 2. The awards extravaganza coincided with the 2008 Southeast Building Conference (SEBC) and honors the best in new-home construction and design.
“For one night of the year, the spotlight is on the Southeast’s finest builders and designers,” says Ashley Jennings, Aurora Awards Chair. “The Aurora’s are a must for all and honor the best of the best.”
“Builders and utility companies, working together, reached new realms to make these homes environmentally friendly,” said Ashley Jennings, 2008 AURORA Award Chair. “Their achievements are highlighted with the AURORA Award to display their distinction in the home building industry.”
Home building professionals in a 12-state southeast region received prestigious AURORA Awards for new home construction and design excellence during an industry gala earlier this past weekend at the 2007 Southeast Building Conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. The nationally recognized AURORA Awards honor builders, designers, architects, and other home building industry professionals from Texas to Virginia.
“The AURORA Awards are the Grammy’s of the home building profession,” said Jennings. “It symbolizes tremendous achievement, honor and distinction among building industry professionals.”
In each category one Grand AURORA Awards is presented. Winners are companies that incorporated energy efficiency, water conservation, natural gas, solar energy, and green building practices into their new home construction projects. These homes serve as models for other builders to gain knowledge and techniques to emulate in the future.
Trunnell Construction and Schackow Realty and Development from Gainesville take home this year’s GRAND Award for:
2008 GRAND SOLAR HOME
Solar Energy Efficient House Detached Single Family Home
Forest Creek
Gainesville, FL
Trunnell Construction and Schackow Realty and Development
Team Members Include: Trunnell Construction, Richard Schackow Developer, Energy Conservation Services of North Florida
ABOUT THE AURORA AWARDS:
The AURORA Award competition is open to builders, architects, interior designers, landscape architects and other home building professionals in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Award categories include attached for-sale homes, detached single-family homes, custom homes, kitchens, baths, interior merchandising, residential developments, rental apartments, recreational facilities, landscape design, retirement communities, remodeling, rehabilitation, or historical restoration, commercial projects, energy-efficiency, water conservancy, solar energy, and green construction. The 2008 Aurora Awards program drew 300 entries.
ABOUT THE SUNBUILT PROGRAM:
SunBuilt is an incentive-based solar water heating program operated by the Florida Solar Energy Research & Education Foundation under direction of the Department of Environmental Protection’s Florida Energy Office. For more information about the SunBuilt Program, visit www.sunbuilt.org or www.flaseref.org.