This week’s Superhero Awards winner feature is Advanced Native Construction, receiving the Pillar of the Year Award. The award honors a construction or maintenance professional, company or group that has played a key role in building communities.
Advanced Native Construction (ANC), a Native-owned business based in Oregon, received the Pillar of the Year Award for knowing how to manage a project, stretch a dollar, and battle the elements to deliver a quality product on time. Their hard work and persistence has been critical to the success of Indian Country projects.
Most recently, ANC managed a 35-home new construction project on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon. In addition to constructing beautiful, new single-family homes, ANC also built a multipurpose community room, which included a kitchen and meeting areas. (See photos here.)
Impressively, the project was completed four months early and on budget. ANC has also worked on many other tribal developments in the Northwest.
Construction companies often don’t hear much praise when all goes well on projects. But if something goes wrong, it’s a big problem. We’re happy to give ANC a pat on the back (and an award!) for their outstanding work.
Ed Williams, project manager, accepted the award on behalf of Advanced Native Construction. He’s famous around Travois for sharing beautiful aerial photos of construction sites and videos with jazzy tunes.
We asked Ed for a few words about receiving the award.
Ed said: “All of us here at Advanced Native Construction are so grateful to be recognized for our work on the Greeley Heights Project. Everyone reading this knows that a construction project can be a complex combination of contractual obligations, technical information, regulation compliance, communication and personalities.
“All the best projects benefit from open, free-flowing dialogue and problem-solving, where the design team, general contractor and subcontractors sincerely have the best interest of the owner as a guiding principle. It is a powerful tool when everyone is contributing solutions.
“The Greeley Heights project was a perfect example of what can be achieved when technical skills, preparation and respectful, open communication are encouraged. I commend the Travois team for all the quick responses and everyone at Warm Springs Housing Authority for being so quick to help with anything I needed to keep the project running smoothly. It was my pleasure to be part of this project.”
Congrats to ANC!
Read about other award winners here:
Week One: Sharie Benson, Yavapai-Apache Nation Tribal Housing
Week Two: Native American Bank