Industry group honors Hawaii's best builders

The Building Industry Association of Hawaii honored achievements at the 26th annual Renaissance Building & Remodeling Awards ceremony Wednesday in the Monarch Room at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

Armstrong Builders LLC won a Grand Division Award and Overall Grand Award for the Monkeypod Kitchen restaurant Wailea, Maui — by chef and restaurateur Peter Merriman — in the New Commercial Construction category for a project between 5,001 and 7,500 square feet.

"The Renaissance Building & Remodeling Awards showcases excellence in design and construction of what is happening now, with the new technologies and new products that are coming out," said Karen Nakamura, executive vice president and CEO. The organization singles out the industry's best "so that we can educate our consumers … to take advantage of the benefits that these buildings and these designs will bring to the quality of life of the people of Hawaii."

Projects are cited in categories including new and remodeled residential, kitchen and bath, commercial, landscape, public works and historical projects. Overall Grand Awards and Grand Division Awards are presented in those numerous categories, with some categories divided by square footage totals or by dollar values.