Warfel Construction Company’s work on the St. Leo the Great Catholic School Expansion and Renovation Project in Lancaster, PA has earned the company a National Excellence in Construction® Pyramid Award from Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) in the Institutional – Less than $5 Million Category. Representatives from the company received the award March 2 during ABC’s 27th annual Excellence in Construction® Awards celebration at Workforce Week ’17 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
“Warfel Construction Company earned this Excellence in Construction Pyramid Award through their outstanding craftsmanship, teamwork and world-class safety processes, and Associated Builders and Contractors is pleased to honor them,” said 2017 ABC National Chair Chuck Goodrich, president of Gaylor Electric Inc., Indianapolis. “The uncompromising commitment to top-quality construction from Warfel’s team was clear from start to finish in the St. Leo the Great Catholic School project. ABC is proud to claim these leaders in the merit shop construction industry among its members.”
The Excellence in Construction awards program is the industry’s leading competition, developed to honor innovative and high-quality merit shop construction projects, with an Eagle Award presented to the top project in each category. The award honors all construction team members, including the contractor, owner, architect and engineer. The winning projects, selected from entries submitted from across the nation, were judged on complexity, attractiveness, unique challenges, completion time, workmanship, innovation, safety and cost.
A panel of industry experts served as the competition’s judges. This year’s panel included representatives from the Design-Build Institute of America, Engineering News-Record, the Construction Users Roundtable, the National Association of Women in Construction, and higher education, among others.
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) is a national construction industry trade association representing nearly 21,000 chapter members. Founded on the merit shop philosophy, ABC and its 70 chapters help members develop people, win work and deliver that work safely, ethically, profitably and for the betterment of the communities in which ABC and its members work. Visit ABC online at abc.org.
