State Building Officials Name Award Winners

An energy-efficient house in Yuba County, a house in Pacific Palisades that made extensive use of an existing structure, and an apartment project in San Francisco were among the winners in the 1985 Awards of Excellence contest sponsored by California Building Officials, a Sacramento-based association of local government code enforcement professionals.

There was a tie in the high-rise residential or commercial (fewer than six stories) category between Foothill Design Group for the Pavilions, Sacramento, and Roland/Miller/Associates for the Sonoma-Cutrer Winery.

Architect Robert Duncan Nichol won in the high-rise category for Harper Plaza, San Francisco, while Stanly E. Panko won in the rehabilitation of an existing building category for his remodeling of the 1954-vintage San Mateo City Hall.

The Foothill Design Group won in the single-family residential category (under $135,000) for the Yuba County house, while Marshall Lewis won in the single-family category (over $135,000) for the Fisher residence in Pacific Palisades. Corbett View Partners and Stephen A. Roake won in the attached multifamily residential category for Corbett View Apartments, San Francisco.

The seven judges were George W. Field, Oceanside building official; James E. Bihr, executive director, International Conference of Building Officials; California State Architect Whitson Cox; Charles R. Imbrecht, chairman of the California Energy Commission; Jack Kelly, Huntington Beach councilman; State Fire Marshal James McMullen, and Paul W. Welch Jr., executive vice president, California Council of American Institute of Architects.