CertainTeed announces winners for 2024 North American Gypsum Trophy Awards

The biannual celebration of excellence in drywall design and craftsmanship returns – with 6 projects in both the United States and Canada receiving the esteemed accolade.

CertainTeed®, a leading North American manufacturer of building materials, has announced the winners for its 7th Annual CertainTeed Gypsum Trophy Awards, which recognizes contractors’ work across North America – each at the forefront of drywall design, installation, sustainability and craftsmanship.

“While this marks only the seventh Trophy Award for CertainTeed, the pause we had to take due to the pandemic made us realize how quickly this has become a luminary moment in our industry to honor and celebrate the innovative uses of our gypsum products and the incredible teams behind them,” says Mathew P. Byrne, VP sales for Interior Products Group, USA. “In a season where labor shortages compound challenges met with timelines, budgets, and outside-the-box design requests, the winners we’ve selected this year embody the true artisanship required to be an exceptional gypsum professional.”

The competition, which is traditionally hosted every two years, assesses drywall and finishing contractors in the U.S. and Canada for their design skills with gypsum, spanning various categories such as creativity, innovation and sustainability. Winners are invited to attend the 7th CertainTeed Gypsum Trophy Awards event, which will be held October 17-19, 2024 at the Buffalo Mountain Lodge in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Of the winners listed below, four U.S. companies will serve as ambassadors at the 14th Saint-Gobain Gypsum International Trophy Awards, competing among contractors and their most prestigious projects from around the world in Paris, France in April 2025.

U.S. Winners 

• Kleckner Interior Systems Inc.: Franciscan Health; Hospital Crown Point, Indiana
• T.J. McCartney, Inc.: Assembly Innovation Park – Phase I; Somerville, Massachusetts
• Valley: The Ohio State University Wexner Hospital; Columbus, Ohio
• Klover Contracting: St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Student Life Center; Lower Gwynedd, Pennyslvania
• Western Partitions Inc.: The Ritz Carlton Tower - Block 216; Portland, Oregon
• Performance Contracting Inc.: Turfway Park Racing & Gaming; Florence, Kentucky

“We’re honored to celebrate our North American winners and recognize their accomplishments,” said Wayne Edgecombe, VP Sales, Canada. “We’re confident each project – which showcases the diverse and creative ways drywall can be used as structural and design components – will inspire the same creativity amongst their fellow contractors.”

To learn more about the CertainTeed Gypsum North American Trophy Awards, previous winners and the 2024 winners, visit www.certainteed.com/certainteed-gypsum-trophy.

About CertainTeed
Through the responsible development of innovative and sustainable building products, CertainTeed, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has helped shape the building products industry for more than 110 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Manufacturing Company, the firm’s slogan “Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed,” inspired the name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed is a leading North American brand of exterior and interior building products, including roofing, siding, solar, fence, decking, railing, trim, insulation, drywall and ceilings.

A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest and oldest building products companies, CertainTeed has more than 6,900 employees and more than 60 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and Canada. The group had total sales of approximately $4.1 billion in 2019. www.certainteed.com