Luxury builder wins 5 national awards for Siesta Key home
Nautilus Homes, a luxury builder based in Sarasota, has received five awards from the National Association of Home Builders in recognition of its work on Island Breeze, a 6,100-squarefoot residence on Siesta Key that balances style, craftsmanship, sustainability and low maintenance.
The accolades were presented at the NAHB Nationals Awards and Best in American Living Awards during the International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas Feb. 28-29. These national awards spotlight creativity and talent in the building industry and honor professionals for excellence in homebuilding across the United States and Canada.
Nautilus Homes secured the coveted BALA Platinum Award for Best Custom Home priced over $2 million. Island Breeze’s cabana received another platinum award for Specialty Room/Project in a custom home priced over $2 million.
The home also won a Gold Best Kitchen in a custom home priced over $2 million and silver Best Single-Family Custom Home within the category of 6,000 to 8,000 square feet for the NAHB Nationals Awards.
In addition, the team received a fifth bonus award the night of the awards for Best Room Overall.
Ryan Perrone, co-founder and president of Nautilus Homes, said the design of Island Breeze draws inspiration from the Abaco Islands and fuses historical elegance with modern simplicity.
The Zobrist Design Group served as the principal architectural firm for the project, collaborating with Jett Thompson Interiors, which provided its expertise for interior design.
Apply now for free CNA program
CareerEdge is partnering with Suncoast Technical College to offer a free CNA FastTrack program, beginning in April.
The deadline to apply is March 29 and the program is limited to 15 people.
A workforce development initiative of the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce, CareerEdge continuously seeks innovative programs and techniques to support local businesses. In this most recent partnership, CareerEdge and STC address a major national issue, the nursing shortage, in a local way.
The curriculum will be a condensed version of STC’s Certified Nursing Assistant program. The tuition-free FastTrack begins April 30, 2024, and runs through June 6, 2024, with classes held Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at STC’s main campus, 4748 Beneva Road, Sarasota.
Additionally, Sarasota Memorial Hospital will host the participants for clinical training during the last two weeks from 6:30 am to 1:30 pm.
Accepted applicants must attend an introductory session April 2.
Apply at https://careeredgefunders .org/bridges-to-careers/.
Grapevine takes 11 ADDYs
Grapevine Communications, of Sarasota, took home 11 ADDY Awards from the Suncoast Chapter of the American Advertising Federation, recognizing the creative spirit and excellence in advertising. The ceremony was held at the Ringling Sound Stages in Sarasota on Feb. 24.
The advertising, marketing and public relations agency won awards for print collateral, video, website design and development, ad design, events and digital marketing. Grapevine also earned an AMY Award, given to the highest scoring entry in each category.
Held annually by the AAF, the local awards event is the first phase of a three-tier, national competition. Across the country, local entrants vie to win recognition as the very best in their markets. At the second tier, local winners compete against winners from other local clubs in district competitions.
Grapevine’s gold entry will automatically advance to the District Awards, and those winners will compete in the third tier, the national stage of the American Advertising Awards.
S-One commits to sustainability
S-One Holdings Corp. has joined the United Nations Global Compact initiative, a voluntary leadership platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible business practices.
S-One Holdings is a global company headquartered in Sarasota with a focus on the digital imaging industry.
The UN Global Compact is a call to companies to align their operations and strategies with 10 universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, and to act in support of UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals.
Launched in 2000, the UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world.
“S-One is committed to sustainability across all companies and business practices to reduce our environmental footprint,” said Art Lambert, co-founder of S-One Holdings.
With subsidiaries and brands dedicated to developing and selling products for the printing and graphics industry, sustainability is one of the ways S-One does business ethically and responsibly.
S-One designs and produces environmentally conscious printing products manufactured, used and recovered in a sustainable way that embraces a circular economy.
A better way to treat A-fib at SMH
Sarasota Memorial Hospital physicians are among the first in the nation performing pulsed field ablation, a breakthrough therapy to treat people with atrial fibrillation, or irregular heart rhythms.
Sarasota electrophysiologists Drs. Antonio Moretta and Smriti Banthia performed the first four procedures at SMH-Sarasota recently using Medtronic’s PulseSelect system, the first PFA device approved for commercial use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of patients with paroxysmal (periodic) or persistent atrial fibrillation.
Traditionally, catheter ablation is a technique in which heart tissue is treated with extreme heat (radiofrequency ablation) or cold (cryotherapy) to destroy the tissue triggering A-fib.
The breakthrough PFA delivers fast, controlled electrical pulses through a cardiac ablation catheter to achieve the same therapeutic effect on the heart tissue.
Studies suggest it could become a safer alternative to traditional catheter ablation because PFA does not use heat or freezing temperatures, which may reduce the risk of scarring to adjacent, healthy tissue.