Portland, Oregon, February 13, 2008 - Intex Custom Homes, a Portland builder specializing in high performance environmentally sensitive Arts & Crafts-style homes, won top honors in four categories at the 2007 Excellence Awards, sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland. The event was held Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Portland Hilton.

The prizes included the Green Building Excellence award for the $500,000-and-over single family detached home category. This is the second year in a row Intex won the green building award in this category.

In addition to the four first place awards, Intex received a Silver Merit Award for its Gabriel Woods townhome neighborhood in Tigard. The townhomes are designed in the same Arts & Crafts style as the company’s single family homes. Intex broke ground on Gabriel Woods in 2006 and sold out the entire 25-home development within seven months.

“We believe this enthusiastic response is a result of being able to provide townhome buyers with the same level of aesthetics and craftsmanship that we’re known for in our detached single family homes,” said Intex president Joe Bauschelt.

The four first-place awards Intex won were for:

	Best Single Family Detached Home in the $750,000 to $999,000 price range. This was for a home in Portland’s Multnomah Village on land that was previously occupied by a dilapidated warehouse. Intex acquired the property, cleared it of all traces of the previous business, and returned it to a quiet country setting. The winning entry is one of two homes Intex built at the location, each of which have broad covered front porches and home office space situated over detached garages.
	Best Single Family Detached Home in the $650,000 to $749,999 price range. The award honored one of the homes Intex built in its new Garden Grove neighborhood in southwest Portland. The 15-home neighborhood was built on a large infill lot where Intex saved native trees and created two communal green spaces.
	Green Building Excellence for another of the Garden Grove homes. The winning entry has green characteristics it shares with the other Garden Grove homes, including its small footprint compared to the home’s ample (3,100 square feet) size; low-maintenance materials, including fiber cement siding and a concrete front porch; low-VOC paint; a 90 percent efficient furnace; tight, Energy Star-tested ductwork; the use of compact fluorescent bulbs in more than half the home’s lights; and a host of other features that save materials, energy, natural resources and promote healthy living.
	Best Web Site. The site, www.intexcustomhomes.com, was recognized for the way it distinguished Intex apart from other home builders, and for its smooth, intuitive, informative and aesthetically pleasing design.

Approximately 400 persons attended the ceremony.

“You could tell people took this seriously. With everything going on in the market, a lot of builders are pulling back. We’re pushing forward, and it shows,” Bauschelt said. Despite a slowdown in the real estate market, Intex revenues rose nearly 165 percent in 2007, the sharpest increase in the company’s 17-year history. Its newest neighborhood, Indigo Ridge in unincorporated Washington County, will open to the public on March 1.

Contact: S. Robert August
(303) 220-8480

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