Westlake Royal Building Products™ Announces the DaVinci® Roofscapes Masterpiece Contractor 2025 Projects of the Year
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Westlake Royal Building Products™ (Westlake Royal), a Westlake company (NYSE: WLK), has honored seven standout roofing projects with the 2025 DaVinci® Masterpiece Contractor Project of the Year Awards. The annual award recognizes projects built with DaVinci Roofscapes composite roofing while demonstrating excellence in installation, outstanding visual impact, and the ability to transform the look of a home or commercial space. This year’s winners comprise five residential projects and two commercial projects from across the U.S.
The residential projects receiving top honors:
Classic Construction & Consulting, Stillwater, Minn., for the replacement of an aging, hail-damaged cedar roof on a lakefront home with a DaVinci Multi-Width Shake roof in Aged Cedar. Homeowners’ insurance rates decreased 50% after receiving the new composite roof.
Final Touch Construction & Design, Fontana, Calif., for the intricate job of adding DaVinci Multi-Width Slate tiles alongside new solar panels on an expansive roofing system. The mixture of Castle Gray and European-colored tiles adds beauty plus low maintenance to the coastal waterfront home.
Nitro Roofing and Construction, Columbus, Ohio, for an eye-catching replacement roof for a 1890 Victorian-style home. It features nearly 5,000 custom Inspire® Slate by DaVinci tiles in fish-scale and square-edge slate patterns and Cool Mist and Olive colors.
Preferred Exterior, New Hyde Park, N.Y., for the roof on a newly-constructed showplace home featuring DaVinci Single-Width Slate in the Smokey Gray color. Several structures, including a pool house, make up the sprawling home compound.
Washington Roofing & Construction, Washington, Mo., for the re-roof of a home using DaVinci Select Shake in Aged Cedar, following a hailstorm. The spacious property includes both a four- and eight-car garage plus various A-frame-style buildings with roofing pitches of 26/12.
The commercial projects receiving top honors:
Burns & Scalo, Pittsburgh, for the replacement of a deteriorating roof on the administration building at Mount Aloysius College in Cresson, Pa., with DaVinci Single-Width Slate in the European color. The historic 1897 landmark building at the private college houses classrooms and offices.
Weatherguard, Inc. (THE ROOFEREES), Omaha, Neb., for the re-roof of the storm-damaged Peter Kiewit Lodge at Eugene T. Mahoney State Park with DaVinci Single-Width Shake in a custom Forest Green color. Hosting 40 guest rooms, a restaurant and meeting rooms, the lodge features the largest pitched roof state building in Nebraska.
MEDIA NOTE: Professional images, videos and more details are available on each of the award-winning projects.
About DaVinci®Roofscapes
Industry-leading DaVinci® Roofscapes captures the authentic look of real cedar shake and natural slate in each of their composite roofing tiles. Made of virgin resins, UV and thermal stabilizer, plus a fire retardant, each tile resists impact, fire and severe weather. They also defy insects, rotting, fading and splitting. Available in dozens of colors, the composite tiles are backed by a Lifetime Limited Material Warranty. DaVinci Roofscapes is a division of Westlake Royal Building Products™.
About Westlake Royal Building Products
Westlake Royal Building Products™USA Inc., a Westlake company (NYSE:WLK), is a leader throughout North America in the innovation, design, and production of a broad and diverse range of exterior and interior building products, including Siding and Accessories, Trim and Mouldings, Roofing, Stone, Windows and Outdoor Living. For more than 50 years, Westlake Royal Building Products has manufactured high quality, low maintenance products to meet the specifications and needs of building professionals, homeowners, architects, engineers and distributors, while providing stunning curb appeal with an unmatched array of colors, styles, and accessories.
