Allied Steel Announces 2005 Builder of the Year Award

FT LAUDERDALE, FL –

Allied Steel Buildings Inc. announced Eddie Poff, founder and president of Poff Builders from Greensboro, NC, as the winner of their 2005 Builder of the Year Award.

Eddie Poff has been working with Allied both as a builder and consumer for the past three years. He earned the title with his 2005 accomplishments, building an average of one steel building every two weeks stretching from upstate New York to South Florida.

“We met Eddie when he was shopping for a building for one of his customers. That customer gave him such good reviews that we decided to start referring him out to additional clients,” said Charles Kowalski, co-founder of Allied Steel Buildings.

Poff’s Builder of the Year Award was a free 40 X 60 X 14 Allied building complete with gutters, down spouts, overhang, soffit, and trim. The building has become the headquarters for his business.

As a winner, he will also enjoy the privilege of attending several NASCAR events and watching them from private VIP suites and pit rows. Since he won, Poff became such a big fan of NASCAR races that he built a personal garage for Nextel Cup driver Ryan Newman.
"It was the most elaborate building I've ever built," Poff said. "To call it a 'garage' is kind of joke, this thing was huge and so clean you could eat off the floors."

Poff’s proudest accomplishment is a client list that he says is “100 percent satisfied” with his crew’s work ethic and the buildings they’ve built.

Pastor Keith Warren, who put up a church in Strasburg, VA, recalls his experience with Eddie Poff; “It was quite a project! We put in about 200 man-hours, and the whole thing took 15 workdays to finish but with Eddie’s help we have our congregation looking just the way we wanted it to."Poff used other companies before but said he would never work for anybody else again.

"I could work with any steel building company I wanted to," said Poff. "The reason I work with Allied is because they are by far the most consistent and dependable. What’s more, they have the best after-sale service of any company - bar none."

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