Bay Area SMACNA

Bay Area SMACNA Wins Awards at CAL SMACNA Annual Convention

Congratulations to the Bay Area SMACNA winners of several annual awards that were recognized at CAL SMACNA’s 56th Annual Convention in Kauai.

Tom Guilfoy Memorial Craftsmanship of the Year Award

Created in 2004, this annual award is in memory of Tom Guilfoy, former owner of the historically renowned Guilfoy Cornice Works in San Francisco. This award is for any project where attention to detail and expertise was critical to the project and exemplifies teamwork between sheet metal workers, the contractor, the subcontractor and the owner.

This award is presented annually for any type of work in the HVAC, Specialty, Industrial, Kitchen or Architectural fields. Projects are judged on the skill and expertise exhibited to complete the project, regardless of how big or small. There are two main categories: mechanical and architectural, along with a creative concepts category to recognize exceptional projects falling outside of the mechanical and architectural categories.

The 2022 Tom Guilfoy Craftsmanship award in the Mechanical category was awarded to Southland Industries of Union City for the Bay View Campus project.

This winner was chosen due to the project’s complexity, collaboration and craftsmanship. This project also had a great safety record with no injuries over a four-year period.

The entire 1.2 million square feet of occupiable space of this project is served by four large built-in-place AHU’s totaling 650,000 cfm, 100% outside air. It has 783 terminal units (VAVs), 55 fan coil units, 35 exhaust fans, 2,700 linear feet of trench convectors, 500,000 square feet of UFAD and more than 1.5 million pounds of sheet metal installed, which took three years to manufacture in their shop. There is also an “air highway” duct that is 168” X 54”. Most of the ductwork is exposed, which involved weekly time with the architect for layout and routing plans.

This project has no natural gas onsite. With 2,224 geothermal piles integrated into the structural piles of the building, totaling 100 miles of piping underground, this project is the largest of its kind in North America and will serve the heating and cooling demands of the campus without an onsite CO2 production.

Number of Man Hours Spent: 167,850

2022 Safety Awards

Congratulations to the following companies that qualified for CAL SMACNA’s Safety Awards with their excellent safety records!

Under 25,000 Manhours

Balance America, Inc.
Hawaiian Air Corp.
Mauck Sheet Metal

100,001 and Over Manhours

A.O. Reed & Co.
ACCO Engineered Systems
AGC, Inc.
Anderson Systems
Bell Products, Inc.
Broadway Mechanical Contractors, Inc.
California Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
Champion Industrial Contractors, Inc.
Control Air Enterprises LLC
Couts Heating & Cooling, Inc.
Eberhard
Marelich Mechanical
Matrix HG, Inc.
Monterey Mechanical Company
New England Sheet Metal and Mechanical Co.
Ram Mechanical, Inc.
Silicon Valley Mechanical, Inc.
Strategic Mechanical, Inc.
Tru-Duct Inc.
University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors, Inc.
Western Allied Corporation
Western Allied Mechanical, Inc.

Distinguished Legislative Services Award

Duane Davies, National Air Balance Company

CAL SMACNA’s Distinguished Legislative Services Award was created to recognize members who have supported CAL SMACNA’s legislative and regulatory agenda through their efforts to write letters when requested; testify before the Legislature and regulatory hearings; attend functions to speak with legislators; and open their shops to legislators, regulatory officers and students to increase awareness of the workings of our industry.

2022 Ed Banks Memorial Award for Contractor of the Year