Home City Ice Addition & Renovation Wins Industrial Category
Boyertown, PA, November 21, 2013
Hollenbach Construction, Inc. received an Award of Excellence in the Industrial Category for its work on the Home City Ice addition and renovations project in East Greenville. The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter presented the award to Hollenbach at the 23rd Annual Merit Construction Awards of Excellence program on November 14th in Norristown. The awards program recognizes outstanding projects throughout eastern Pennsylvania built by ABC contractors.
Home City Ice, a nationally recognized ice manufacturer, partnered with Hollenbach Construction on this project. Glenn Ebersole, Business Development/Marketing, said, “The Home City Ice manufacturing facility is a very unique and innovative total transformation of an early 1900’s “ice plant” into a modern “state-of-the-art” ice manufacturing facility.”
The successful completion of the project was not an easy assignment. A major challenge was installing large new equipment into the existing space which presented an opportunity to showcase the innovative nature of Hollenbach Construction. Tim Little, President, shared how the challenge was met. “The entire east end wall of the existing building was removed and a steel rail system was constructed to move a 21,000 pound ice maker into place with only 4″ of clearance while being rolled the full length of the building. All ice manufacturing work was taken off line and work by Hollenbach had to be completed on this phase and ice production started by mid-April, 2012, in time for the owner’s peak manufacturing period. We were fortunate to have a great creative team to work with on this project.”
About the ABC Construction Awards of Excellence
ABC Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter received 40 entries for this year’s awards program. The projects entered were substantially completed by August 30, 2013. More than 35 industry experts representing a cross-section of professionals, including architects, owners, developers and other construction industry leaders, judged the projects. A full list of winners is available at abceastpa.org.
