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2010Hopkins & Porter Wins 2010 NARI "Grand Prize in Creative Design"
01/31/10—The National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI) Metro DC Chapter awarded Hopkins & Porter Construction, Inc. of Potomac, Maryland Contractor of the Year (CotY) Grand Award for their design and construction of a sweeping rear addition to a local home. This coveted recognition was celebrated during NARI’s 2009 Capital CotY Awards ceremony on January 30, 2010, at the Marriott in North Bethesda, Maryland. The judges chose from among almost 200 entries, projects submitted by the DC area’s top remodeling and design-build firms. In the past 10 years that Hopkins & Porter has had its own Architecture Department, they have won the Grand Award for Creative Design every year they have submitted an entry in this category. This is particularly a tribute to in-house architect Kai Tong AIA whose winning designs have received 5 of these awards, one for each of the years since he began working for Hopkins & Porter. The winning project, a rear addition to a traditional home in Damascus, Maryland, opened up cramped and dark interiors to a beautiful backyard. The final product included designing and building a living room expansion, a new family room with arced balcony, a mid-level landing, and a lower flagstone patio with stone fire pit. The design succeeded in unifying the kitchen, family room, and living room spaces which had previously felt isolated from each other and from the outdoors and natural light. The arc of the floor to ceiling rear glass wall and curved roof, which pitches upwards to the clouds, offers an ever changing panoramic painting of the great outdoors. The owners say a new energy has enlivened their entire home. A semicircular balcony cantilevers over the yard and reinforces the addition’s overall curved geometry. A separate intermediate deck transitions to the lower flagstone patio. 2009
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(7/25/09) Hopkins & Porter partnered with its associates, sub-contractors, and suppliers and the Rotary Club of Potomac for the 7th year to raise funds for Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County (HFH-MC). H&P staff, Habitat volunteers and families, and Rotary Club members gathered at the Big Train Baseball in Cabin John Park for a pre-game picnic (the game was called because of heavy rains and thunderstorm).
Read article in the Potomac Almanac
(01/01/09) Hopkins & Porter has been published in the January/February 2009 Issue Washington Spaces Magazine for a renovation done on 100 year old cabin. (See photos and job progress).
The concept and design of the renovation was by Hopkins & Porter's resident architect, Kai Tong, AIA, and built by Hopkins and Porter's craftsmen, led by Don Lowery and Ray Hornsby.
Go to Spaces Magazine, to read the full article or to see more photos.
Left to Right: Todd McPhee, Mike Wilkenson, Corey Janis, Joe Leonard, Jimmy Jackson, Ray Hornsby, Kai Tong and Lea Allen (not shown).
(01/08/09) Hopkins & Porter is part of the MC Adopt-a-road program. We maintain the section of Democracy between 7-Locks and Newbridge. This is a volunteer commitment with the county to schedule 4 clean ups of your section of the road each year, and to notify them of any major trash violations or dumping. We usually take care of these interim problems ourselves.
Visit Montgomery County adopt-a-road program to learn more.
Gathering for the check presentation are, from left to right, Josh Jeffries of the Rotary Club of Potomac; Brian Yong of PolyTech Roofing & Siding; John Paukstis, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County, and Guy Semmes, principal of Hopkins & Porter Construction, Inc.