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laboratively with Turner Architecture, the
house optimizes unbelievable ocean views
thanks to being perched atop a south-facing
mountain slope. Pinned into solid bedrock,
the modern design elegantly meshes with
the natural integration of wisely chosen zero
maintenance materials.
“It’s good marketing for us,” Boyd said about
receiving the award. “It’s always interesting to
see what your peers think. Being in the home
building industry, you live in a vacuum. It’s
hard to see what everyone is doing. It’s inter-
esting to talk with your peers and competi-
tors and see what they’re struggling with and
where they’re achieving.”
While the award is well received by the en-
tire team at Boda, Boyd can’t help but steer
the attention away from the shine, glow, glitz
and glamour of the award and focus it on
what truly matters and makes the biggest im-
pact, even when personality clashes happen.
“Our biggest reward is having a happy cli-
ent and a happy architect,” he said. “It can
be challenging to keep them both happy be-
cause quite often the architect has a different
agenda than the client. “We sit in the middle
and it’s our job to balance the needs of both
parties.”
KEEPING AT IT
The exposure afforded by the Georgie Award
attention is not lost on Boda’s internal crew.
Having relied on the same group of trades
for the last 20 years, it not only shows loyalty
to the craft of the homes they build, but a
loyalty which helps propel their show pieces
into the spotlight.
“Dane and I have been working in this busi-
ness for 30 years and over time you build loy-
alty if you treat everybody well and that’s a
big part of why we’re successful,” Boyd said.