Over the years, Ausonio Inc. has earned a number of valued industry and trade awards.
- 2023 Stella Awards, Gold Winner
Category: Best Conference Center
Project: Monterey Conference Center
The Northstar Meetings Group awarded the Monterey Conference Center the 2023 Stella Award for Best Conference Center in the world. Ausonio served as construction manager during renovation of the center, which has won half a dozen other major industry awards.
- 2023 Project of the Year, APWA Monterey Chapter
Category: Historial Restoration Preservation Greater Than $25 Million
Project: CSUMB Freeman Stadium
Ausonio was the owner’s representative and construction manager.
- 2021 ABC (American Buildings Company) Excellence In Design Competition
Ausonio, 1st Place
Category: Agriculture
Project: Roar Wine
The Excellence in Design competition offers a compelling outlet for inspiring new designs that illustrate the many ways metal building systems can meet varying construction needs, regardless of size or complexity. American Buildings Company works with Authorized Builders to transform ideas into reality and expand metal building systems construction.
Each award-winning project highlights the diverse application and expanding boundaries of metal systems construction.
We are proud to have served as Construction Manager for the renovation of the Monterey Conference Center, which went on to win several awards, including:
- 2019 Excellence in Design Citation Award, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Monterey Bay
- 2019 Honor Award for Architectural Design, AIA San Francisco Chapter
- 2019 Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) Awards of Merit – Renovation Category
- 2019 Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) Award of Merit – Construction Management and Methods Category
- 2018 American Concrete Institute (ACI) Construction Awards, Northern California and Western Nevada Chapter – Architectural Category
- 2018 Outstanding Architectural Engineering Project, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) San Francisco Section
2012: Ausonio wins an Excellence in Design award from American Buildings for its work on Thermo King. This 11,640 square foot steel building is a warehouse and distribution center related to the agricultural industry. The building is composed of two stories of wood-framed offices contained within steel exterior wall panels and roofing, with a split-face masonry wainscot.
2011: Ausonio wins The Constructor Award for Innovation in Construction Materials and Techniques from the AGC of California. This statewide award recognized Ausonio’s work as a general contractor in a Design-Build team that built Monterey College of Law‘s Community Justice Center. Ausonio used multiple innovations to create a new facility out of a decommissioned military site while achieving a Platinum LEED certification with the US Green Building Council, the highest level of sustainability.
2011: Ausonio wins a Tilt-Up Achievement Award from the TCA for its work on the headquarters and distribution facility of Nordic Naturals. This Design-Build project achieved the nostalgic, inviting wooden feel of a Norwegian fishing village while using concrete tilt-up. The project was recognized for its innovative styling that provided a more human scale to the large industrial structure while keeping within a budget and targeting LEED Gold Certification.
2008: The AGC of California awards Ausonio Inc. as one of two finalists in the state of California qualifying for the Safety Award of Excellence, due to the company’s exemplary construction safety for 2007.
2008: Ausonio wins the Public Private Partnership Award from the Monterey County Business Council for its work on the Castroville Library and Castro Plaza. This award recognized Ausonio’s role in facilitating both public and private funding sources to bring the project to fruition.
2007: Ausonio wins The Constructor Award for Innovation in Construction Materials and Techniques from the AGC of California. This statewide award, representing the best construction project of the year, recognized Ausonio’s work as the general contractor for the Chartwell School campus in Seaside, California. Together with subcontractors, Ausonio used more than a dozen different innovations in construction techniques to qualify the campus under the US Green Building Council’s LEED rating system (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design), and the California Collaborative for High Performance Schools. Other awards won by the Chartwell campus:
- USGBC Certified LEED Platinum (highest level)
- California Governor’s Economic Leadership Award
- AIA San Francisco—Energy & Sustainability Honor Award (highest level)
- Collaborative for High Performance Schools—highest scoring to date, featured as a model campus for high performance design
- California Flex Your Power—Best Overall Award
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—Western Regional Award for Energy Efficiency
2004: Ausonio wins The Constructor Award for Contribution to the Community for the Harden Youth Development Center, Boys and Girls Club of Monterey County. This was a Design-Build project.
2003: Ausonio wins The Constructor Award for Meeting the Challenge of the Difficult Job – Builder. This award recognized the challenges Ausonio Inc. faced for the LifeSparc complex in Hollister. We built this facility to house a revolutionary new explosive manufacturing process for automobile airbag initiators which was still being developed during construction. Ausonio Inc. was a finalist for this same award in 1997 for the Paradise remodel in Carmel.
1997: Ausonio wins The Constructor Award for Excellence in Contribution to the Community from the AGC of California. This award was given in recognition of our work done at Calvary Chapel in Monterey.
1988: Ausonio wins The Constructor Award for Excellence in Client Service. This statewide award, representing the best construction project of the year, recognized our work in creating the 300 X 300-foot altar platform and associated structures for the Papal visit to Laguna Seca. This project was schedule sensitive (tight time frames) requiring construction and removal to be completed on a 24-hour basis.
