Sources: Chaney Enterprises, Waldorf, Md.

When ABC Television’s Emmy award-winning “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” comes to the Mid-Atlantic region, Chaney Enterprises and four customers and vendors will join forces to complete renovation of two structures--a family home and a community center--in one week. Besides ready mixed and insulated concrete forms (ICFs), Chaney will supply pervious concrete for the projects, thereby providing the primary green element highlighted in the episode, airing as a two-hour special. Eastern Concrete and Z-Con will contribute manpower to finish the concrete; Leep Green will donate ICFs; and, Increte of Maryland will donate materials to install decorative stamped and stained concrete pavements.

Notes Chaney Chief Customer Officer Jan Holt, “When we approached our customers and vendors about participating, these folks didn’t hesitate to jump into ‘Extreme Makeover’ with us.” The generosity of Z-Con, Eastern Construction, Increte of Maryland, and Leep Green is matched by the willingness of Chaney employees to volunteer in force. Taking the lead on the projects are Burch Builders Group LLC and G Contracting, Inc., of Northern Virginia.

Granted the 2009 Alliance for Workplace Excellence Award in March, Chaney Enterprises was one of 56 companies recognized in the Metropolitan Washington Region. As an award recipient, Chaney Enterprises was cited for its supportive corporate culture and management practices, family- and employee-friendly policies and practices, strong employee health and wellness initiatives, comprehensive growth and learning opportunities, and corporate social responsibility and employee volunteerism.