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2023 CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE AWARDS
SPECIAL PROJECTS OVER
$5 MILLION
BPGS CONSTRUCTION, LLC
The Quoin Hotel & Restaurant
This project consists of the adaptive reuse of a former bank building into a luxury boutique hotel. The Victorian
Era building, originally designed by Frank Furness, is a treasured historically significant structure, so the restoration was done with surgical care. In addition to the interior transformation for hotel usage, the major new features included custom glass features, beadboard-look ceilings, and skillfully crafted woodwork improvements. A new public rooftop bar and a basement speakeasy punctuate the new hotel and bring those spaces alive. The complexity of the work and the precision of the project execution are what set this project apart and make it worthy of a Construction Excellence Award.
INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION UNDER $10 MILLION
CORRADO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
NKS Distributions
This project was a full site development package for a 211,000 sq. ft. warehouse on a 25-acre site for NKS Distributors, a beer distribution company located in Smyrna, DE. Due to a late project start and winter weather, Corrado had to creatively solve multiple soil and weather conditions for filling the building pad and constructing a solid hauling road for carrying construction traffic. The permanent installation of ponds and swales for erosion control, typically a temporary creation at the beginning of a project,
had to be done during the winter since there was neither space nor time to do these items twice. This had to be done in conjunction with establishing the entrance road and building pad. With a combination
of geotechnical and earth-moving expertise, Corrado Construction was able to overcome the many obstacles and contribute to the successful completion of the NKS Distributions warehouse.
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