Photo by Benjamin Benschneider Boeing's Customer Experience Center won two awards -- for interiors and light-gauge steel framing -- from the Northwest Wall & Ceiling Bureau.

NWCB honors outstanding projects

The Northwest Wall and Ceiling Bureau on April 28 handed out 17 awards for outstanding wall and ceiling projects at the association's annual convention and trade show in San Diego.

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Awards were given for interior and exterior finishes on commercial and residential projects. They also were given for light-gauge steel framing, suspended ceilings, exterior panelization and renovations/restorations. Nine awards were given to projects in Oregon, seven in Washington and one in Alaska.

Multiple award winners were Western Partitions, Performance Contracting, Applied Restoration and Expert Drywall.

Two projects -- Oregon State University Learning Innovation Center and Boeing Customer Experience Center -- won in two categories.

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

The judges were retired architects John Greiner and Ray Ernst; NWCB Director of Technical Services Terry Kastner; former NWCB executive director and industry expert Bob Drury; NWCB Executive Director Mark Eisenmann; and John Killin, executive director of the Associated Wall and Ceiling Contractors of Oregon and Southwest Washington.

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