College Students Win JELD-WEN Door Design Contest
Each student receives $2,000 scholarship, two grand-prize winners attend IBS

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. January 11, 2006 —

Two architecture students from the University of Kentucky at Lexington have each won a $2,000 scholarship and a trip to the International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla., as part of JELD-WEN’s first Student Door Design Contest.

JELD-WEN, the world’s leading manufacturer of reliable windows and doors, invited students from around the nation to submit their designs online in fall 2005. After receiving entries from students at 44 colleges and universities, JELD-WEN and a panel of independent experts selected three scholarship winners. 

Brandi Berryman and Amanda Hardaway, both seniors in architecture at the University of Kentucky, tied for first place and the trip to International Builders’ Show. A third winner, Jonathan Tucker, an architecture student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will receive a $2,000 scholarship.

Berryman designed her door with the idea of luck in mind and the visual of crossed fingers. In designing this door, “Luck was one thing I wanted on my side, and in any type of business or home, luck is something that’s universal, that everyone wants,” she said.

Hardaway’s love of architecture stems from her enjoyment of the creative process and is evident in her prize-winning door design. “I like the design aspect, being able to use my imagination in my work,” she said. “[In architecture,] you can still be creative and make a living.”

Tucker’s winning design juxtaposes a circular shape against symmetrical panels in a double-door design. “Browsing through JELD-WEN’s doors on the Web, I was most impressed with the beauty achieved in simple designs. I felt a simple design would be better than making it overly complex,” he said.

The panel of judges included Jim Hackett, vice president of marketing for JELD-WEN doors; Rita Catinella, new products editor of Architectural Record; Leslie Ensor, editor of Custom Home; and Jacob Day, past president of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS).

“All of us were delighted by the wide variety of entries and the imaginative door designs that the students came up with,” said Hackett. “The students captured elements in their designs that are both unconventional and refreshing.”

JELD-WEN, inc., is the world’s leading manufacturer of reliable windows and doors. Based in Klamath Falls, Ore., JELD-WEN began as a small Oregon millwork plant in 1960 and has grown into a company with nearly 150 divisions and more than 20,000 employees worldwide. JELD-WEN is the official window, door and millwork provider of the PGA TOUR and Champions Tour. JELD-WEN was the only window or door manufacturer to be named 2003 Energy Star^® “Partner of the Year” by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. Eight JELD-WEN product lines have earned the Good Housekeeping Seal. JELD-WEN windows and doors have been honored by numerous consumer and industry publications. In 2005 JELD-WEN^® Custom Fiberglass exterior doors received a Consumers Digest Best Buy rating.

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