As seen in Westport News Local Builder Wins Award for Weston Home, February 24, 1999 Four Square Builders, Inc. a residential home building company based in Sandy Hook was honored recently with a prestigious award from the Connecticut Homebuilders Association for the Best Speculative Home of 1998 in the $1-million category. The home was a custom-designed hip roof and gabled Colonial with 5,600-square-feet of living space situated on 2.2 acres of sloping wooded property abutting very sensitive open space consisting of older trees and dense wetlands. Careful environmental engineering was required to situate the house as naturally as possible and meet Weston's strict requirements for development, the company reported. According to Neal Berko, the company's president, "All the valuable months spent in the design phase certainly paid off; we sold the house in the framing stage to a wonderful couple from California and we were selected for the second year in a row by our peers as an award winning residential home building contractor. This makes all of the heartache synonymous with our trade worth the effort." The statewide HBA contest bestowed over 25 awards to home builders in many different categories ranging from homes under $500,000 to homes over 8,000-square-feet and beyond $2.5 million dollars. The five judges that visited more than 200 entries from all counties in the state had very specific requirements that needed to be met and/or exceeded. Four Square's winning home met all of the judge's strict contest requirements, as well as impressing the panel with very detailed custom exterior and interior trim workmanship. Four Square Builders has built a number of speculative and custom homes in Newtown, Southbury, Redding, Wilton and Weston. Both Neal and Steven Berko live in Newtown with their wives and children. On Jan.6, Neal Berko was named to the Board of Directors, for the HBA of Fairfield County. Four Square Builders, Inc. can be reached at its Sandy Hook office (203) 270-8610. << back to News