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BEST Wins 1st Place Sika Sarnafil’s 2018 Waterproofing Category

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We are so excited to share that BEST Contracting Services earns 1st Place in Sika Sarnafil’s 2018 Project of the Year – Waterproofing Category for our work on the Salesforce – Transbay Transit Center.

We earned 2nd place in the Steep Slope Category for our work on the Del Norte Regional Airport in Crescent City


BEST Contracting Makes Top 100 Roofing Contractors List

BEST Recognized as Top Leaders in Commercial Roofing Contractors

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Best Contracting Services was ranked top 3 across the nation by the prestigious General Contractors Magazine

“Compared to residential roofing systems, the process of installing commercial roof systems is more complicated and time-consuming. Homeowners can simply select their preferred roofing material—usually, either asphalt shingle and concrete tiles—- and the contractor can apply it immediately and be done with it in a day or two. However, for commercial roofing systems, the process involves multiple factors such as spraying of polyurethane foam, restoration coatings, selection of single-ply materials (TPO, PVC, EPDM), modified bitumen, concrete, built-up, tar, gravel, and more. The process often requires multiple days of waiting for a product to cure, settle, and be glued thoroughly, and it generally takes more than a month to finish a project depending on the size of the structure’s roof area. Roof repairs and roof installations can cost millions, which businesses can’t risk wasting.

With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of the best roofing contractors in the country, which have all completed remarkable projects showcasing the level of quality of their roofing services. We also took into consideration their years of experience, principal’s background, number of awards received, notable projects, and customer reviews.”

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Q Award Project – Los Angeles Football Club’s Banc of California Stadium

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The Alliance for Quality Construction held its annual Q Award luncheon on May 21, 2019. The 2019 Q Award recipient, The Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) for its development of the Banc of California Stadium. The LAFC, located in the heart of Los Angeles, was chosen as this year’s recipient for its 100% union construction, excellent safety record, innovative design, and its ability to provide construction jobs locally.

The following criteria must be met to qualify for the prestigious Q Award:

  • Exhibits quality craftsmanship
  • Built with union labor
  • Excellent labor-management relations
  • Maintained an exemplary safety record
  • Proficient use of apprentices
  • Completed and occupied in the previous year
  • Located in Los Angeles or Orange counties

Simply the Best – LA Convention Center

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The Los Angeles Convention Center receives a new Sarnafil roof.

Recently the National Roofing Contractors Association spotlighted BEST Contracting Services’ work for the LA Convention Center. We are extremely proud of our hard work and are honored to be recognized.

The Los Angeles Convention Center boasts the largest rooftop in Los Angeles (580,000 square feet). BEST Contracting Services provided 500,000 square feet of Sika Sarnafil PVC thermoplastic membrane roofing materials for the Upper and Lower Concourse roofs, South Hall roof and South and West Tower roofs.

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BEST Contracting Services in ENR Top 20 Firms in Roofing 2019

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Once again BEST Contracting Services has graced the Top 20 Firms in Roofing in ENR Magazine.

BEST Contracting Once Again on Top 100 Roofing Contractor

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BEST Contracting has once again made the list of the Top 100 Roofing Contractors in the Roofing Contractor publication. It’s an honor to be named within the list of our fellow colleagues, but to be in the top 7 is definitely an honor. The RC team has put in a lot of time and research and we thank you.

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SoFi Stadium Low Slope Roofing Award 2020

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Once again, BEST Contracting Services has been recognized for our excellent roofing work and expertise. Every year Sika Sarnafil recognizes the outstanding achievements in the areas of design, application and installation. The five categories are: Low Slope – New Construction, Low Slope – Re-roofing, Steep Slope, Sustainability and Waterproofing.

The SoFi Stadium is a 3.1 million-square-foot, open-air complex that boasts a swooping canopy composed of ETFE (durable clear plastic panels) and Sarnafil PVC roof membrane. The roof is also inlaid with LED lights to display different colors and logos for both local teams at night. BEST Contracting Services installed 183,788 square feet of Sarnafil roof membrane in reflective gray color spanning over 40 separate roof section. BEST was challenged to complete this fast-paced project schedule of around a year and a half all while maneuvering around 2000+ other skilled tradespeople.

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Orange County Museum of Art Under Construction

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Courtenay Finn, chief curator, is pictured outside the new Orange County Museum of Art, still under construction, at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The new OCMA is scheduled to open in October 8, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The massive new Orange County Museum of Art under construction is still largely a blank canvas – but it won’t be when it opens in about four months.

As the 53,000-square-foot museum’s walls take shape, its new chief curator, Courtenay Finn, is choosing what will fill that blank canvas so future visitors experience something vibrant or unexpected or thought-provoking, perhaps even before they enter the building.

At twice the size of OCMA’s old Newport Beach home, the new building gives Finn a variety of indoor and outdoor galleries, terraces and plazas of different sizes and character to play with. Deciding how to furnish all those empty spaces can be a process of diligence, but also of discovery.

Finn regularly visits the construction site to familiarize herself with the building. She browses the database of the roughly 5,000 works in OCMA’s collection, and she tries to spend one day a week in the art storage vaults, pulling out pieces by artists she doesn’t know as well, “trying to think beyond the sort of greatest hits of the collection.

And sometimes, when museum staff are moving other art pieces to get to the work she wants to see, something unexpected is revealed.

“It’s kind of the same thing that happens when you go to the library and pull a book off the stack, sometimes what is around it influences you,” Finn said.

Curating a museum can also seem like play. Finn said they use foam core models of OCMA’s galleries and scaled-down replicas of works they’re considering – like a grownup dollhouse or Lego set.

And occasionally, it’s like assembling furniture from IKEA.

OCMA Director Heidi Zuckerman said she was thrilled to learn the collection included a “monumental” work by sculptor and artist Alice Aycock that the museum has never publicly shown.

Created in the 1980s, the large-scale installation is an apparatus of wood and wires that evokes a machine of unknown function.

But it was stored disassembled. Museum staff combed their files for information on the piece, but they didn’t find any instructions.

So someone got the 75-year-old artist on the phone, and when OCMA’s temporary home at South Coast Plaza Village closed in 2021, they used the space to “figure out as a puzzle how to put this work together, Zuckerman said.

Inspiration and collaboration

Finn, 40, is new to Southern California but a veteran of the art scene in several other states. She’d previously worked with Zuckerman at the Aspen Art Museum, where they also got to help open a new building.

With a background in printmaking and textiles, Finn studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art with the intention of being a creator. But she kept finding herself in other people’s studios, talking and writing about their work and organizing shows.

“It became quite apparent that I was much more interested in what other people were doing, she said, so she shifted her focus to curation.

Finn’s niche is living artists rather than dead ones, and she tries to get to know them as people and then share those insights with a museum audience.

“It’s really important to me to remember that artists are human beings – they have families, they watch ‘Law and Order,’ they go to the grocery store,” she said.

Her approach to curation is dynamic and interactive. Finn brings artists into the new museum to inspire them on how they could use the space.

She wants to frequently change shows and exhibitions so there’s regularly something new to see – and as OCMA’s neighbors are the concert hall, two theaters and opera house that make up the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Finn will work with her counterparts there to fashion programs that complement each other.

“The opportunity’s really going to be to create new avenues of collaboration, and I think that’s really exciting for the community,” said Anton Segerstrom, whose family’s philanthropy helped establish the center; he’s also on the museum’s board of trustees.

Or as Segerstrom Center President Casey Reitz put it, the addition of OCMA “completes the campus.”

The museum and performing arts venues will work together on education programs for youth and the community, they may put on shows and exhibitions tied together by common themes, and they’ll market to each other’s patrons so when someone comes to the center, “they’re enjoying a full day of arts in Orange County,” Reitz said.

Coming attraction

With its public unveiling just months away, OCMA is planning to commemorate the occasion with its own full day of arts that Zuckerman hopes will make visitors feel welcomed, appreciated, joyful and inspired.

The opening day will be a 24-hour event, with live music, food, a yoga class, art-making activities, late-night movies and, of course, tours of the new museum – all showcasing “how it’s a place where we want people to come and bring other people and hang out,” Finn said.

That diversity of experiences reflects what Finn wants OCMA to be known for long after the festivities end. And, thanks to a $2.5 million gift announced last fall, the museum plans to offer free admission for the next 10 years.

While visitors can expect to find paintings, sculptures and other mediums people commonly think of as fine art, Finn said she wants to celebrate all kinds of creative work – including design, crafts, fashion and music – from artists at all different stages of their careers.

What she’s really trying to do is make the museum experience less stuffy – not so much dictating to people what “art” is, but more encouraging them to ask questions and explore ideas, even when they’re confusing or frustrating.

A more traditional museum might see its role as imparting knowledge to visitors, Finn said, but at OCMA “we’re coming from a place where we’re really excited and we care about it and we want to share it with you.”

Roofing Contractor Top 100 2022 List

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With hard work comes great reward. BEST Contracting is once again honored to be on Roofing Contractor’s Top 100 2022 list. It’s been a challenging post-pandemic year with supply chain issues and delays forced by scarce materials as well as escalating costs and retention problems. But, we persevere to show resolve, creativity and optimism to find opportunities. We have always aimed to provide the best solution for our clients and will continue to do so in the future. Thank you Roofing Contractor for recognizing our passion.

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