The ASCC Decorative Concrete Council 2012 Award Winners

The Decorative Concrete Council, a specialty council of the American Society of Concrete Contractors, has announced the winners of its fourth annual Awards competition for decorative concrete projects.

Tom Ralston Concrete, of Santa Cruz, Calif., won the WOW! Award, given to the best overall project, for the Ruppel Hardscape, built in the backyard of a home in the Saratoga Hills of Northern California. The Ruppel backyard also garnered 1st Place for Best Cast-In-Place Specialty Finish and 2nd Place for Best Vertical Surface. The hillside project included layout and design for a patio, upper patio walls, a staircase, retaining walls, wall caps, a pool deck and a fire pit.

T.B. Penick & Sons, a San Diego company, won an honorable mention in the WOW! Category for the Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge in central San Diego.

The entries were judged by: Clark Branum, UltraFlor program manager for Diamatic USA; Howard Jancy, architectural consultant with Jancy and Associates; Bob Harris, founder and president of the Decorative Concrete Institute; and Rebecca Wasieleski, editor of Concrete Contractor magazine.

The Decorative Concrete Council membership includes contractors, manufacturers and suppliers of decorative concrete products.

The Ruppel Hardscape project created by Tom Ralston Concrete for a home in Saratoga, Calif., won the WOW! Award, 1st Place for Best Cast-In-Place Specialty Finish and 2nd Place for Best Vertical Surface. Photos courtesy of American Society of Concrete Contractors.

WOW! Award, 1st Place for Best Cast-In-Place Specialty Finish and 2nd Place for Best Vertical Surface. The Ruppel Hardscape project Tom Ralston Concrete	WOW! Award Honorable Mention Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge T.B. Penick & Sons, San Diego, Calif.
Overlays/Spray Textures, Under 5,000 Sq. Ft. Columbia Parc Sundek/Concrete Coatings Inc., Mandeville, La.	Concrete Artistry, Under 5,000 Square Feet Vine Patio Concrete Mystique Engraving, Nashville, Tenn.
Cast-In-Place, Stamped, Over 5,000 Square Feet Robinson Nature Center Hyde Concrete, Annapolis, Md.	Cast-In-Place, Stamped, Under 5,000 Square Feet “Hidden Oasis” Greystone Masonry Inc., Stafford, Va.
Concrete Artistry, Over 5,000 Square Feet NE 36th Street Bridge Belarde Co. Inc., Woodinville, Wash.	Multiple Applications, Over 5,000 Square Feet Boathouse Creative Construction By Design, A Corp., Danville, Ill.
Vertical Application, Under 5,000 Square Feet Darby Residence Creative Construction By Design, a Corp., Danville, Ill.	Epoxy, Under 5,000 Square Feet “It’s A Duesey” Deco Illusions LLC, Roanoke, Ind.
Graphics, Under 5,000 Square Feet Columbia Parc Sundek/Concrete Coatings Inc., Mandeville, La.	Polished, Under 5,000 Square Feet St. Phillip High School Burgess Concrete Construction Inc., Moline, Mich.
Cast-In-Place Special Finishes Under 5,000 Sq. Ft. Johnson Residence New England Hardscapes Inc., Acton, Mass.	Cast-In-Place, Special Finishes, Over 5,000 Sq. Ft. Ruppel Hardscape Tom Ralston Concrete, Santa Cruz, Calif.
Countertops Two Rivers Steakhouse Hyde Concrete LLC, Annapolis, Md.	Multiple Applications, Under 5,000 Square Feet Darby Residence Creative Construction By Design, a Corp., Danville, Ill.
Vertical Application, Over 5,000 Square Feet Galen Center Morley Construction Co., Santa Monica, Calif.	Concrete Artistry, Over 5,000 Square Feet J.W. Marriott Art Plaza Smock Fansler Construction, Indianapolis, Ind.
Cast-In-Place, Stamped, Under 5,000 Square Feet Darkey Residence Contractor: Rosebud Concrete LLC, Myerstown, Pa.	Overlay/Spray Textures, Under 5,000 Square Feet Lincoln Park Towers Contractor: Sundek of Illinois, Rolling Meadows, Ill.
Concrete Artistry, Under 5,000 Square Feet Ocean Floor Concrete Mystique Engraving, Nashville, Tenn.	Multiple Applications, Over 5,000 Square Feet Two Rivers Steakhouse Hyde Concrete, Annapolis, Md.
Cast-In-Place Special Finishes, Under 5,000 Sq. Ft Darby Residence Creative Construction By Design, a Corp., Danville, Ill.	Multiple Applications, Under 5,000 Square Feet Mavanowski Garage Cornerstone Decorative Concrete, Fennville, Mich.
Vertical Application, Over 5,000 Square Feet Ruppel Hardscape Tom Ralston Concrete, Santa Cruz, Calif.