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Hopkins & Porter Construction, Inc. Recognized as a 2010 Guildmaster!

April 30, 2010—The Guildmaster Awards celebrate service excellence in the building, remodeling, contracting, and real estate professions. Each year, GuildQuality gives special recognition to the companies that demonstrate an ability to deliver a consistently superior customer experience.

In granting awards, GuildQuality considers two primary metrics for each candidate: the percentage of customers who would recommend and the percentage of customers who responded. In order to receive a Guildmaster Award, a member must achieve a recommendation rate of 90% or greater. In the home building, remodeling, and real estate industry, the average customer recommendation rate for businesses is approximately 70%.

For the 2010 award, GuildQuality reviewed more than 14,000 surveys. Because of their high ranking in customer satisfaction, Hopkins & Porter has earned recognition as a 2010 Guildmaster!

See the GuildQuality's survey of Hopkins & Porter's customers.

Hopkins & Porter Featured in the Washington Examiner

The March 25, 2010 issue of the Washington Examiner featured a Hopkins & Porter project in their Home & Garden section in an article entitled "temporary addition unifies indoors with out in Damascus." Read the article or view more of this project in our Portfolio.

Hopkins & 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.

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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.