Photo by Darius Kuzmickas The Fair-Haired Dumbbell office building in Portland won the Oregon state award for commercial exteriors from the Northwest Wall and Ceiling Bureau.

NWCB honors outstanding projects

The Northwest Wall and Ceiling Bureau handed out more than a dozen awards for outstanding wall and ceiling projects at the association's annual convention and trade show on May 3 in Tucson, Arizona.

May 4, 2018 A Special Section of DJC.COM

Awards were given for interior and exterior finishes on commercial and residential projects. They also were given for light-gauge steel framing, suspended ceilings and renovations/restorations.

Western Partitions, Applied Restoration and Anning-Johnson Co. were among the multiple award winners.

Projects were judged on design, jobsite innovation and/or conditions, quality of workmanship, use of materials and overall effect.

The judges were architect Ray Ernst; NWCB Executive Director Terry Kastner; former NWCB Executive Director Bob Drury; Marc Chavez, technical director of Perkins+Will; Peter V. Burns, technical consultant for the NWCB; and John Killin, executive director of the Associated Wall and Ceiling Contractors of Oregon and Southwest Oregon.

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