This article was taken from the Pique News Magazine – Three Whistler builders up for Georgie Awards To view the full list of nominees, visit georgieawards.ca. The in-person awards gala originally set for March 12 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver has been rescheduled to June 4. Winners are selected from a panel of out-of-province industry professionals. Our summers here in Whistler absolutely are getting hotter and those hotter periods are lasting a lot longer, so in the ’90s and 2000s you might have a week or so when it was uncomfortably hot, and now we’re seeing a month to six weeks.”įor 30 years, the Georgies have celebrated excellence in home building and renovation in B.C.’s residential construction industry. “Of course there is also more and more interest in air conditioning. “When it comes to thermal comfort, it’s not just insulation values and the outside building envelope, it’s also a greater awareness of the fact that the heating system they have doesn’t do a good job of heating the whole house properly,” he said. The effects of climate change are another major influencer, with “thermal comfort” a growing priority for clients both in the winter and summer months, said Deeks. I think in part COVID is driving that,” he explained. “Indoor air quality is a larger concern for people. “Of course the cost of construction has gone up to a place where people who 10 years ago might have considered tearing a house down are a lot more invested in trying to fix their existing house.”ĬOVID-19 is also leading to home updates in other ways, with more of an emphasis on proper air ventilation, Deeks said. There’s that older stock from the ’70s and ’80s and there are some good houses that need to be updated,” Deeks said. “The volume of inquiries we’re getting on renovations is exploding. Every design always has some interpretation to it and a really good builder will fill in those invisible blanks in the design so that the designer and the client’s vision is truly realized in the final product.”ĭeeks noted the flood of renos that have come across their desks of late, fuelled by people spending more time at home in the pandemic, as well as Whistler’s climbing property costs. Our job is to do a good job of executing and fill in the blanks. “Of course we’re really just the conduit for great design and good clients. “That helps enormously when you have really good design and clients with nice taste,” Deeks said. Of the Cypress Place project, Deeks said the offshore client was “really looking for that sanctuary feeling when they come to Whistler” and, working with a Vancouver interior design firm, RDC came up with an aesthetic that fit the bill. RDC is up for three awards this year: custom home valued between $2 million and $3 million and best single-family kitchen up to $200,000, both for a home dubbed the Cypress Place Retreat in Nicklaus North, as well as for best kitchen renovation under $150,000 for a Cheakamus Way home in Cheakamus Crossing. I think for anyone who makes it into the finals, your project absolutely has to stand out … so it’s even more satisfying today.” “Today, we’re up against three times the number of entries. “We were super excited to become finalists and to win 16 years ago, and 16 years ago I understood how hard it was to get an entry not only across the finish line and into the finals but to win,” Deeks said.
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