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22 Hartford Business Journal • August 8, 2016 www.HartfordBusiness.com OF NOTE GILBANE BUILDING COMPANY HONORED WITH 2016 PROJECT TEAM AWARD Glastonbury's Gilbane Building Company was recently honored by the Connecticut Building Congress with a Project Team Award for its work on the Fairfield Preparatory College Student Life Center project. The project involved the construction of a 16,000-square-foot facility including an enhanced dining area, assembly area, team rooms, cam- pus store and office space. • • • CONNECTICUT RESTAURANTS RECOGNIZED BY WINE SPECTATOR Twenty-five Connecticut restaurants were featured in Wine Spectator's 2016 Restaurant Awards, which recognizes outstanding wine programs around the world. The awards recognize restaurants whose wine lists feature a well- chosen assortment of quality producers along with a thematic match to the menu in both price and style. Hartford restaurants on the list included: Barcelona Wine Bar, The Capital Grille, Max Downtown and Vivo Seasonal Trattoria. • • • UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER TEAM HONORED Five scientists from the United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford were recently honored by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers for authoring the best Science and Technology for the Built Environment technical paper published last year in the ASHRAE Research Journal. The team included Sorin Bengea, Pengfei Li, Veronica Adetola, Keunmo Kang, Teems Lovett and Francesco Leonardi. • • • WEATOGUE'S VESTA CORP. ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY ACCOLADES Vesta Corp., a Weatogue-based company that develops, owns and manages affordable housing, has been recognized as the fifth larg- est acquirer of affordable housing units nationwide on the list of Top 10 Companies Completing Acquisitions in 2015 by Affordable Housing Finance. In addition, the National Affordable Housing Management Association also announced that Vesta was included in the nationwide "2016 Affordable 100" for the first time. Please Note: All electronic submissions for Accolades should be sent to news@HartfordBusiness.com. For more information about the Hartford Business Journal's Accolades Page, please visit www.HartfordBusiness.com. ▶ ▶ New Britain's Stanley Tools, in partnership with House of Heroes, honored its first 2016 Build Your America contest winner, Jim Pfister, former Vietnam prisoner of war. Five winners were selected in total from across the country to receive $10,000 in home improvement or repair projects courtesy of House of Heroes. Volunteers visited Pfister's home in Illinois to renovate the master bath, powder room, den and laundry room. Additional work included the replacement of the furnace flue, driveway repair and power washing of the front walk and backyard patio. ▶ ▶ Bank of America employees from across Connecticut (shown above) recently gathered to support Take a Vet Fishing, an organization that honors, comforts and assists military veterans who are recovering from the physical and emotional traumas of their service. The veterans, who were all from the Eastern Blind Rehabilitation Center at the West Haven VA, and employee volunteers spent the day fishing at Killiam's Point in Branford. CT WELCOMES INAUGURAL 'CONNECT NEW ENGLAND' STANLEY TOOLS HONORS BUILD YOUR AMERICA WINNER BANK OF AMERICA EMPLOYEES SPEND TIME WITH VETERANS ▶ ▶ The first annual Connect New England was recently held at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. This appointment-only trade show brought together planners, suppliers and experts who focus on New England destinations for meetings and events. The event was hosted by Connect in partnership with the Connecticut Convention & Sports Bureau, Connecticut Convention Center and the Marriott Hartford Downtown/ Waterford Hotel Group. Pictured (from left) are: Randy Fiveash, director of the Connecticut Office of Tourism; Hartford Mayor Luke A. Bronin; Michele Hughes, director of sales and marketing for the Connecticut Convention Center; H. Scott Phelps, president of the Connecticut Convention & Sports Bureau; and Patrick Higgins, vice president of marketplaces for Connect Meetings. ACCOLADES & MORE The Fairfield Preparatory College Student Life Center.