A very Merry Christmas from the PHC Construction team over here at the Grow Community site.

Lotakis honored in Kitsap Sun’s ‘20 Under 40’

PHC/Asani CEO, Greg Lotakis joins august company as a “20 Under 40” honoree for 2015.

The annual awards, sponsored by the Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal and Kitsap Sun newspaper, recognizes “the best and brightest young business leaders who make Kitsap a greater place to live, work and play.”

Honorees were feted at a gala evening this week at Bremerton’s Admiral Theatre. Author and motivational speaker Dan Weedin offered a stimulating address on leadership preceding the introduction of winners.

 “It is an honor to be considered and selected for Kitsap Sun’s ‘20 Under 40’ for 2015,” Greg says. “I continue to find myself surrounded by amazing people – coworkers, friends, and family. I am truly grateful for them and know my success is tied to their support of me. My congratulations to the other nominees and selected candidates. Here’s to a bright future for our communities.”

Greg is profiled in a special print and online section for honorees. Find out more about Greg and read his comments on leadership here.

Congratulations to Greg for this great honor, and thanks to the Kitsap Sun and Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal for recognizing his great contributions.

PHC earns another Built Green Hammer award for Grow Community

For the second straight year, Grow Community and PHC Construction have earned the prestigious Built Green Hammer Award.

Sponsored by the Master Builders Association, the awards recognize outstanding, environmentally sustainable residential projects. Grow Community earned top honors in the Builder, Multifamily 1-50 Units category.
 
The award was presented this week at the annual Built Green Conference at Shoreline Community College. 

“We’re doubly proud to win a Built Green Hammer Award for the second straight year,” said PHC’s Marty Sievertson. “Our goal has always been to show what’s possible in top-quality, environmentally conscious construction. As Grow Community’s second phase, the Grove, sees occupancy this fall, we think buyers will really appreciate the care we’ve put into the project and that the Master Builders have recognized once again.”

Added Greg Lotakis, project manager for developer Asani:

 “This award means a great deal to us because the Master Builders organization and Built Green program are local. We compete with the very best builders in our region for Built Green recognition, and all the builders involved provide support and encouragement to each other to help move our industry toward a sustainable future.”

The Built Green program is designed to help buyers find quality, affordable homes that protect the health of their families and the Northwest environment. Built Green homes are designed to provide homeowners with comfortable, durable, environmentally friendly homes that are cost-effective to own and maintain.

For more information, see builtgreen.net. 

August Grow Community Construction Update: Under every roof, a different story. Sometimes the roof is the story.

Work proceeds apace around the Grow phase 2 worksite this month, with eight buildings underway and in different stages of completion. Framing, drywall and roofing are the story at the Salal, Juniper and Elan buildings, those closest to occupancy projected for this fall.

At the Tsuga, the concrete deck will be completed the first week of September with framing to follow. Three of four single-family homes now have their foundations and floors ready to go, again with framing to begin soon.

In the middle of it all, we’re about to begin grading for the Grove, our newest neighborhood’s signature central greenway.

We’re excited to begin planting this beautiful space, the centerpiece of Grow Community phase 2.

Grow Community a paragon of the ‘New Urbanism,’ Professional Builder magazine says

Public engagement, eco-friendly designs, affordable options, and diversity of home styles and offerings are hallmarks of the New Urbanism, the most significant planning movement of recent times.

Grow Community is a paragon of this forward-thinking ethos, Professional Builder magazine says in its new issue.

 In the article “The Seaside Effect” (a nod to the first New Urbanist community, Seaside, built in Florida in 1980), Pro Builder fetes Grow for such enlightened features as shared pea-patch gardens, energy-efficient construction and rooftop solar power.

Proximity to Winslow town center – just a 5-minute walk from the heart of the neighborhood – allowed project designers and now residents to move beyond the demands of an automobile-centric lifestyle, toward healthier and more sustainable alternatives.

“We didn’t need to provide anything other than a residential fabric,” Jonathan Davis, Grow’s phase 1 architect, tells the magazine.

Read more about how Grow Community measures up to New Urbanist principles in Professional Builder’s July 2015 edition here - see pages 30-35.

New outlines on the Winslow skyline are the shape of progress at Grow Community

Construction on Grow Community’s new phase, the Grove, is moving onward – and upward. The Salal building’s third floor has taken shape, with roof work starting very soon. Next door at the Elan, the second floor is under way.

Concrete work continues elsewhere on the site, the Juniper building is all but complete while the walls, footings and pouring of the Woodland Homes and Tsuga are now well underway.

 With the hot, dry weather of summer upon us, our crews are watering down the site periodically to minimize dust – definitely a challenge, so we ask residents’ and neighbors’ forbearance.

For all the activity around the site, our crews are running up an impressive safety record – 15,000 hours (and counting) without an injury.

An aerial view of construction in the Grove at Grow Community

Purdy Fun Climbing & the Warehouse Rock Gym Unite & Collaborate on New South Sound Indoor Climbing Facility

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Sierra

NEWS RELEASE - For Immediate Distribution

Purdy Fun Climbing
www.purdyfunclimbing.com
Warehouse Rock Gym
www.Warehouserockgym.com

OLYMPIA, WA, (May 5, 2015) – Karma prevailed as Purdy Fun Climbing and the
Warehouse Rock gym have elected to merge the two companies, capitalizing on the
strengths of each to build a new facility for current and future members. The New
facility, with climbing walls designed and built by Vertical World’s Elevate Climbing of
Seattle, is set to open this fall.

For nearly four years, Mike Boyer, founder and president of the Purdy Fun Climbing
Corporation, has been planning to build a state of the art, indoor climbing facility in the
South Sound. Years of research on the industry, best practices, and the latest design
trends will allow Boyer to break ground on the new facility this spring.

For more than ten years, The Warehouse Rock Gym, LLC, provided indoor climbing
opportunities for South Sound enthusiasts, and built up a climbing community at its
facility in downtown Olympia. Being so successful, the overcrowded gym vitally needed
to expand.

Then karma prevailed as the two companies realized something significant.

Collaboration is better than competition. Electing to merge and unite, the two
companies will capitalize on the strengths of each other to build a new facility for current
and future members.

This new facility will be three times larger, with double the height climbing walls, a
dedicated bouldering area, and ample parking, and will be built in a brand new building
designed just to house the Warehouse Rock Gym. PHC Construction of Bainbridge
Island will build the facility. Vertical World’s Elevate Climbing of Seattle will design and
build the climbing walls. So the new gym will have a Vertical World look to it.
Opening FALL 2015, the new facility will be located in the Hogum Bay Business Park in Hawk’s Prairie.

Read more here

Bainbridge Museum of Art Construction Timelapse

Construction Update at Grow Community

Continued iron/cable work for P/T concrete decks.  Concrete pours have begun and will continue through next week.  We expect framers to begin very soon and you will start to see the buildings go vertical beginning with The Salal building.  Dirt work continues and over the next month we will be working to organize the site as we backfill around the new garage and buildings!

Recently completed Suquamish Seafood Co.

The Suquamish Seafood Co. is a 16,000 SF Design Build project for the Suquamish Tribe.  The pre-engineered metal building package includes an 8,000 SF mezzanine for storage and over 4,000 SF of office space.  The lower floor includes 8,000 SF of production area with three coolers exceeding 600 SF, Air Blast Freezer and open production area cooled to 38 degrees.  An additional space has been allocated for Live product handling with saltwater being pumped from the nearby bay.  14” peeler poles and Hardi Siding have been integrated into the design of the metal building with the structural engineer and metal building engineers working in collaboration to meet our client’s needs and maintaining traditional Native American design.

 

Photography by David Cohen

PHC Awarded "Business Excellence in Sustainable Building - Washington" by Acquisition International

The 2015 Acquisition International Business Excellence Awards are all about identifying and honoring the most respected companies and their C-level executives, while recognizing and rewarding outstanding performance, success, innovation and ethics across international business communities. Praised for our tireless work, dedication, and superb performance over the past 12 months, PHC Construction has been honored with yet another award this year for 'Business Excellence in Sustainable Building.'

Construction is beginning on the HUB

Construction is beginning on the HUB, a seniors community center in Belfair, WA

PHC wins 'Large Business of the Year' award

PHC wins the 'Large Business of the Year' membership award from the Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce.

Grow Community Concrete Pour

Today marked the final concrete pour to finish up the foundation walls for the parking garage at Grow Community’s new building A (the Salal). The team placed 54 yards of concrete in the walls using a boom pump, and the material was consolidated by mechanical vibration. The crew also added the capillary break, gravel placed and graded out for the garage’s eventual concrete slab.

Photos by David Cohen

PHC Earns the Prestigious Platinum Award from NAHB for Grow Community!

Grow Community built by Bainbridge-based PHC Construction and developed by Asani, has earned the prestigious Platinum Award from the National Association of Home Builders, in its 2014 Best of American Living contest.

The sustainable, solar-powered neighborhood received top honors in the Green Community category.

As the oldest and most prestigious national design award program in the residential construction industry, the Best in American Living Awards spotlights the most creative and innovative projects from around the nation.

The award was presented at the NAHB International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas this week.

Grow Community is the first development in Kitsap County, Wash., ever to win the NAHB’s Platinum Award distinction, and PHC is the first Kitsap builder to hold the award.

“The Platinum Award is an outstanding honor, and one we’re very pleased to receive,” said Marty Sievertson, president of PHC Construction. “To be acknowledged among the nation’s very best residential projects really speaks well to every facet of Grow, from concept to design to construction.”

What a great honor for our whole Grow/PHC/Asani/Davis team!

You can read the full news release here.

View the award on the NAHB website here.

Grow Community built by Bainbridge-based PHC Construction and developed by Asani, has earned the prestigious Platinum Award from the National Association of Home Builders, in its 2014 Best of American Living contest.
The sustainable, solar-powered neighborhood received top honors in the Green Community category.
As the oldest and most prestigious national design award program in the residential construction industry, the Best in American Living Awards spotlights the most creative and innovative projects from around the nation.

The award was presented at the NAHB International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas this week.
Grow Community is the first development in Kitsap County, Wash., ever to win the NAHB’s Platinum Award distinction, and PHC is the first Kitsap builder to hold the award.
“The Platinum Award is an outstanding honor, and one we’re very pleased to receive,” said Marty Sievertson, president of PHC Construction. “To be acknowledged among the nation’s very best residential projects really speaks well to every facet of Grow, from concept to design to construction.”
What a great honor for our whole Grow/PHC/Asani/Davis team!
You can read the full news release here.
View the award on the NAHB website here.
- See more at: http://blog.growbainbridge.com/grow-community-earns-two-prestigious-awards-from-nahb/#sthash.ut4p281O.dpuf

Grow Community built by Bainbridge-based PHC Construction and developed by Asani, has earned the prestigious Platinum Award from the National Association of Home Builders, in its 2014 Best of American Living contest.
The sustainable, solar-powered neighborhood received top honors in the Green Community category.
As the oldest and most prestigious national design award program in the residential construction industry, the Best in American Living Awards spotlights the most creative and innovative projects from around the nation.

The award was presented at the NAHB International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas this week.
Grow Community is the first development in Kitsap County, Wash., ever to win the NAHB’s Platinum Award distinction, and PHC is the first Kitsap builder to hold the award.
“The Platinum Award is an outstanding honor, and one we’re very pleased to receive,” said Marty Sievertson, president of PHC Construction. “To be acknowledged among the nation’s very best residential projects really speaks well to every facet of Grow, from concept to design to construction.”
What a great honor for our whole Grow/PHC/Asani/Davis team!
You can read the full news release here.
View the award on the NAHB website here.
- See more at: http://blog.growbainbridge.com/grow-community-earns-two-prestigious-awards-from-nahb/#sthash.ut4p281O.dpuf