Four-peat: Jayman Built wins national design excellence award
Alberta continues to dominate headlines by winning multiple awards in the 2025 Canadian Home Builders' Association (CHBA) National Awards for Housing Excellence held May 15 in Victoria, B.C.
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Prolific production builder Jayman Built and premier custom home builder/renovator Vicky's Homes were front runners in the annual national competition held on Vancouver Island during CHBA's National Home Building Week. With an unprecedented 1,000 entries covering four dozen building, renovating, design, community development and marketing categories, 12 Alberta-based companies won 20 of those 48 categories plus two of the three prestigious aggregate awards for excellence.
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Awards organizer and CHBA director of marketing and communications, Natasha Rombough, said Alberta companies have had a lot of success on the national stage in recent years, with projects that are clearly hitting the mark among the nearly 200 judges from across the country.
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'From appealing home designs and functionality, both for new homes and renovations, to livable communities, residents of Alberta have a lot of great choices when it comes to their housing,' she said.
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Jayman, 2025 Building Industry and Land Development (BILD) Calgary Region large volume Builder of the Year, kicked off its successful awards evening by winning Best Short Video for The Streams of Lake Mahogany – Estate Living. Then, moving on to the New Home awards, Jayman received two Best New Low-Rise Home awards for the Benjam Villa (less than 1,500 square feet) and The Streams of Mahogany Brook model (1,500 to 1,800 sq. ft.) in Edmonton and Calgary, respectively. The builder's third New Home award was for Best Detached Production Home 2,401 to 2,800 sq. ft. for the Bentley 24, a model it launched in 2024.
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Jayman ended the evening with another coveted Design Excellence Award, which is presented to the Canadian builder member with the most points. It's the fourth year in a row that Jayman, led by chairman and CEO Jay Westman, has received the nation's top CHBA prize either shared or alone. In 2024, Douglas Homes of Calgary split the spotlight with Jayman.
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'Winning the Design Excellence Award four years running is certainly a first for the competition, and a huge accomplishment. Clearly, their homes have national appeal among industry peers and are excelling in the areas of exterior and interior design, innovation, the functionality of their floor plans, and special features, which are the criteria the judges evaluate for all new homes,' Rombough said.
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The Renovation Excellence Award went to Vicky's Homes, an Edmonton company founded more than 20 years ago by Vicky Kujundzic. Vicky's scored high in by winning four out of the 12 awards in the renovation category, all for the same home. Their Mid-Century Modern project nabbed Best Kitchen Renovation over $100,000, Best Exterior Renovation, Best Single Room Renovation and Best Whole Home Renovation over $800,000. Vicky's was also presented a marketing award for this mega makeover, winning Best Interior Decorating (Model/Showhome). With more than 6,000 sq. ft. of living space, this renovation recently picked up three local awards at the BILD Edmonton Metro Awards of Excellence.
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