05/12/2026
Congratulations to all the members who won Craftsmanship Awards in April! Photos courtesy of David Galen Photography.
HALL OF FAME AWARD:
MICHAEL BREECE
8 Awards, Category: Electrical
LIGHTING SYSTEMS:
Robert Barrett, Bill Lee, Craig Robinson, Alberto Rodriguez PerLectric, Inc.
Project Name: New Capital One Arena, Washington, DC
General Contractor: Clark Construction Group
Perlectric, Inc., in coordination with Clark Construction Group, served as a critical trade partner in the first phase of the Capital One Arena Transformation, managing the procurement of over 90 types of light fixtures, coordinating power and data pathways including the atrium’s featured LED jumbotron, and interfacing with numerous finish trades to deliver the Lofts, the new home for Monumental Sports and Entertainment staff and a key component to unlocking future phases of the Arena’s modernization. Perlectric also coordinated pathways for new fiber backbone connections through two adjacent existing buildings.
Daniel Feeney, Patrick Flaherty, Chad Jenkins, Brian Lopez, Victor Lopez, Andy Murillo Dynalectric Company
Project Name: Westat, Bethesda, MD
General Contractor: HITT Contracting
Dynalectric, in coordination with HITT Contracting, completed the lighting systems installation at Westat, where lighting served not only as an essential building component but as a primary architectural feature defining the movement, atmosphere, and user experience throughout the office space. The central stair presented the most demanding scope, requiring consistent alignment across multiple flights, precise integration of lighting channels within prefabricated millwork.
Reid Bowen, David Lawson, Jonys Lobo Alvarado, Jason Majewski, Vanesa Marinero Flores, Oswald Moran Gomez ArchKey/Mona Electric
Project Name: JW Marriott Reston Station, Reston, VA
General Contractor: DAVIS Construction
Archkey/Mona Electric, in coordination with DAVIS Construction, delivered the lighting installation at JW Marriott Reston Station, a 28-story hotel and condominium building anchoring Comstock’s Reston Row District as the first JW Marriott in Virginia. At the main valet drop-off, custom fixtures designed around actual constellations were precisely aligned with architectural joints, columns, and metal panels, with programmable features allowing specific patterns to illuminate on demand, while lobby butterfly lights with twinkling effects and concealed elements behind millwork required millimeter-level precision throughout the amenity spaces.
Rick Lee, Jayson Wolfe ArchKey/Mona Electric
Project Name: NASM East Exhibits, Washington, DC
General Contractor: Design & Production
Archkey/Mona Electric, in coordination with Design & Production, completed the lighting installation for the east exhibits at the National Air and Space Museum, working closely with the lighting designer and museum curators to ensure every artifact, from objects within display cases to full-size aircraft, was illuminated in a way that delivered the experience museum visitors deserved. The scale and variety of the exhibits presented challenges that could not be solved with standard solutions, requiring the team to develop custom approaches tailored to the unique demands of each installation.
Kenneth Blinkhorn, Kenneth Fowler, Patrick Gardiner, Jeffrey Laroche, Oscar Lobo Mejia, Randall Watkins ArchKey/Mona Electric
Project Name: New Capital One Arena, Washington, DC
General Contractor: Clark Construction Group
Star Awards Nominee
Archkey/Mona Electric, in coordination with Clark Construction Group, executed a comprehensive lighting transformation at Capital One Arena, installing a state-of-the-art package spanning linear fixtures, ambient downlights, ornamental wall sconces, decorative chandeliers, and custom curved fixtures tailored to the Arena’s sports teams across 195,000 square feet. Decorative chandeliers were installed in challenging locations above suites, lounges, atriums, and monumental staircases, with many fixtures angled to the ceiling, extending well above the floor.
Roberto C. Alberto Escobar, Thanh Huynh, Mike Mayhew, Richard Paraoan, Jose Ricardo Riva Bonilla, Cody Simpson Power Solutions LLC
Project Name: Davis Polk DC, Washington, DC
General Contractor: HITT Contracting
Nominator: Power Solutions LLC
Power Solutions, in coordination with HITT Contracting, completed the electrical and lighting installation across five floors of office, conference, and penthouse space at Davis Polk DC, where low slab heights, limited lay-down area created by interior stair cuts, and floor-to-floor custom finishes demanded a just-in-time construction approach with strict material management and precise trade coordination throughout. The light fixture package included custom-length linear and curved fixtures, elaborate decorative pendants, and customized low-profile multi-head downlights.
POWER GENERATION, DISTRIBUTION & SWITCHGEAR:
Deajone Linton, Kevin Lopez, Tyler Radzyminski, Oscar Solis, Amanda Stancil, Rich Urban Helix Electric
Project Name: NIH Electrical Switching Station and Emergency Generators, Bethesda, MD
General Contractor: Hensel Phelps
Star Awards Winner – Technical Excellence
Helix Electric, in coordination with Hensel Phelps, completed the installation of large conduit runs, free-hanging fire-taped three-phase feeder cables, and large-scale cable trays at the NIH Electrical Switching Station and Emergency Generators project, with all work incorporating seismic bracing and support throughout. The scope required careful coordination, precise planning, and thoroughness to execute across a technically demanding site environment.
David Benavidez, Bryan Cianchetta, Reese Edwards, Jesus Rodriguez, Austin Way, Russell Way Hatzel & Buehler
Project Name: F1 and F2 Phased Generator Replacement Project, Annandale, VA
General Contractor: Hatzel and Buehler
Hatzel & Buehler completed a complex, phased replacement of six generators at an active hospital campus, rerouting and reconfiguring existing electrical systems, fire alarm, IT, fuel management, generator controls, and mechanical dampers while maintaining uninterrupted critical power throughout every phase of the project. The upgrade of six generators, ten automatic transfer switches, and two paralleling switchgear plants required rigorous engineering and manufacturer coordination.
Adam Hall, Brian Hull, Dale Linassi, Charles Theil, Nicholas Thompson, Dave Zimmerman Dynalectric Company
Project Name: NTT VA7 Data Center, Ashburn, VA
General Contractor: Hensel Phelps
Dynalectric, in coordination with Hensel Phelps, delivered an exceptional underground feeder installation at NTT VA7, identifying over 15 miles of feeders originally slated for overhead installation and successfully advocating for their relocation underground, resulting in meaningful schedule savings, improved safety, and a cleaner overhead environment with capacity preserved for future feeders.
Nathan Birdsall, Dustin Connors, Andrew Miller, Juan Ruiz, Ryan Sager, Maurice Strother J.E. Richards
Project Name: Cloud HQ, Ashburn, VA
General Contractor: Holder Construction
J.E. Richards, in coordination with Holder Construction, completed the electrical installation at Cloud HQ LC3 in Ashburn, Virginia, immediately implementing a prefabrication strategy for cable tray and MC feeders to reduce site deliveries and increase production value on a logistically challenging scope. The work included double-stacked cable tray and MC feeder cables installed 30 feet above the finished roof, with the conduit installation designed by the field team and executed using prefabrication methods.
Nathan Birdsall, Dustin Connors, Richard Grant, James Jenkins, Jesse Sweeney, Jeffrey Woodson J.E. Richards
Project Name: Aligned 03, Sterling, VA
General Contractor: Holder Construction
J.E. Richards, in coordination with Holder Construction, completed the electrical installation at Aligned 03 in Sterling, Virginia, immediately launching a prefabrication strategy to reduce site deliveries, increase production value, and keep the project on schedule from the outset. When steel installation delays on the roof and generator yard threatened project milestones, the team engineered their own strut support systems with stamped drawings and deployed temporary supports and roof blocks to advance conduit installation ahead of the structural release, maintaining momentum without compromising the work.
Ta**us Carroll, Brycelyn Miller, Tabesteph Moliki, Sothearak Nou, Edwin Reyes, Jamal Wiggins J.E. Richards
Project Name: Mustang, Bristow, VA
General Contractor: Holder Construction
J.E. Richards, in coordination with Holder Construction, completed the fire alarm installation for a hyperscale data center, deploying a team of more than 20 electricians to install 12 miles of fire alarm cabling, 10.5 miles of VESDA conduit, and 125 VESDA panels across a facility of significant scale. The client requested the fire alarm system be completed 73 days ahead of the original schedule to obtain a stocking permit and begin server installation, fundamentally compressing an already demanding timeline.
Jacob Bailes, Juan Gutierrez, Hector Manzanares Ortiz, Mirsad Obradovac, Robert Pyles, Fernando Ramos Sanchez Power Solutions LLC
Project Name: Cologix ASH1 Phase 2, Ashburn, VA
General Contractor: Clune Construction
Power Solutions, in coordination with Clune Construction, completed the electrical installation across 13 data halls within an active data center at Cologix ASH1 Phase 2, delivering a full scope that included medium voltage switchgear and transformers, exterior generators, modular electric rooms, rooftop chillers, and a power distribution system, all while navigating around the customer’s live equipment and infrastructure throughout the 15-month schedule.
Marco Asencios, Marques Brown, Joel McCollum, Eugene Merriman, Daniel Paige, Patrick Thompson Power Solutions LLC
Project Name: CoreSite VA3 PH1E, Reston, VA
General Contractor: DPR Construction
Power Solutions, in coordination with DPR Construction, completed a 4 MW electrical build within an existing live data center at CoreSite VA3, navigating active gear rooms, heavily congested corridors, delayed owner equipment, and undocumented installations left by previous subcontractors, all while maintaining electrical code compliance and meeting the end user’s completion milestones over a year-long schedule.
Scott Douglas, Alfonso Escalante, Reyben Escalante, Marbin Garcia, Timothy Timberlake, Aaron Weeks Power Solutions LLC
Project Name: Iron Mountain VA7, Manassas, VA
General Contractor: Clune Construction
Power Solutions, in coordination with Clune Construction, completed a 38 MW data center installation at Iron Mountain VA7, delivering the full electrical scope from the medium voltage loop down to the rack level across a project that demanded exceptional output from start to finish. The scale and complexity of the work required more than 150,000 hours of overtime and double-time to meet the aggressive timeline.
Kevin Beasley, Randy Beasley, Andrew Clark, Andrew Hall, John Hall, Mark Lewis Power Solutions LLC
Project Name: META LDV1, Ashburn, VA
General Contractor: Holder Construction
Power Solutions, in coordination with Holder Construction, completed the electrical installation across six 12 MW data halls and four network suites within an active data center at META LDV1, navigating live equipment and existing infrastructure throughout a 15-month schedule. The core of the installation centered on an extensive feeder and cable tray system spanning hundreds of thousands of feet of conduit, copper THHN, and cable tray routed through limited space, feeding a distribution network of NATs, ATS units, and busway from the electric rooms to the data hall galleries.
Phillip Burr, Daniel Fischler, Kevin Grubby, Kevin Pompey, Jesse Rossi, Michael Rossi Power Solutions LLC
Project Name: Vantage Project VA16, Sterling, VA
General Contractor: The Whiting Turner Contracting Company
Power Solutions, in coordination with Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, completed the electrical installation at Vantage VA16, a 32 MW, four-story data center in Sterling, Virginia, encompassing data center floors, electrical rooms, a self-generation power plant, and office space, all constructed simultaneously with no lay-down area on site, requiring every delivery to be precisely coordinated and materials staged only as needed for immediate installation.
SPECIAL SYSTEMS:
Essaid Aouragh, Timothy Grimes, Leonel Midence Alvarado, Benjamin Riddle, John Saquipulla, Audi Velasquez ArchKey/Mona Electric
Project Name: Reston Row Hotel Condo, Reston, VA
General Contractor: DAVIS Construction
Archkey/Mona Electric, in coordination with DAVIS Construction, completed the fire alarm installation at the Reston Row JW Marriott Hotel and Residences, a 28-story luxury tower in Reston, Virginia, featuring a hotel on the lower floors and high-end condominiums above, built on a shared underground garage serving multiple occupied buildings within the broader Reston Row campus. The fire alarm system was built on the Gamewell FCI platform under a compressed schedule driven by the hotel and condo opening date, requiring precise coordination to integrate new construction systems with the existing occupied infrastructure.
David Bond, Ali Lindsey, Steven Onorato, Michael Vanduzer Sr. ArchKey/Mona Electric
Project Name: WMATA Bladensburg Bus Garage, Washington, DC
General Contractor: Hensel Phelps
Archkey/Mona Electric, in coordination with Hensel Phelps, designed and installed the complete electrical and technology systems for the new WMATA Bladensburg Bus Garage under a design-build contract, interpreting the owner’s RFP requirements and developing detailed electrical and telecommunications designs across a maintenance building divided into six distinct operational areas and a CNG yard with its own dedicated electrical, compressor, and control rooms.
Jacob Butler, Jerome Gordon, Christopher Patton, Kristopher Schindler, Michael Shipyan, Travis Stone J.E. Richards
Project Name: Mustang, Bristow, VA
General Contractor: Holder Construction
J.E. Richards, in coordination with Holder Construction, completed the electrical installation for a hyperscale data center, managing a scope that spanned prefabricated modular assemblies built offsite, owner-vendor deliveries, and a raceway system supporting more than 30 miles of medium voltage cable and 400,000 feet of low voltage feeders to the data halls. The prefabricated systems were sourced from suppliers throughout the country and encompassed power distribution ranging from high-voltage transmission down to the server floor, requiring precise coordination to ensure components arriving from multiple origins integrated seamlessly upon installation.
Julio Alvarez, Joseph Farrokh, Judith Guillen, Shane Moffett, Donte Ramseur, Steve Richardson Rosendin Electric, Inc.
Project Name: Gainesville Data Center Building 2, Gainesville, VA
General Contractor: HITT Contracting
Rosendin, in coordination with HITT Contracting, completed the fire alarm and VESDA installation at Gainesville Data Center Building 2, executing a system defined by precise wiring organization, optimized device placement, and seamless integration that exceeded mandatory life safety standards. Every aspect of the installation was approached with the long-term maintainability and operational reliability of the system in mind, reflecting a commitment to quality that went well beyond code compliance.
