Trade publication honors Riedel-Wilks HUNTINGTON -- A leading publication of the metal building industry has named Huntington-based Riedel-Wilks Building Structures Inc. to its list of the nation's Top 100 Metal Builders.
Metal Construction News announced its annual listing of top builders in the May edition. The listing includes companies that sell the most tonnage of steel and have largest square footage of buildings completed during the previous calendar year.
Riedel-Wilks, which sold 1,026 tons of steel in 2010, ranks 36th on the new list. It is the eighth time in the past 10 years the company has made the Top 100.
"We believe being number 36 is quite an accomplishment for a relatively small company in an area that is not heavily populated," Scott A. Riedel, vice president and co-owner of Riedel-Wilks, said in a press release. "This represents a lot of hard work and dedication by everyone in our company and is a testament to our long list of satisfied customers and the quality end product we provide."
Riedel-Wilks was founded 33 years ago. It is affiliated with Varco-Pruden Buildings, one of the nation's largest manufacturers of metal buildings as well as Parkline Building Systems, a West Virginia manufacturer based in Eleanor. When founded in 1978, Riedel-Wilks began with seven employees. Today there are over 60.
"We have always been a family-owned business that employs all local labor," Riedel said. "From day one our goal was to deliver superior quality and service at a fair price. Our long list of repeat customers is evidence that we have been meeting our goal."
Riedel-Wilks Building Structures is a full-service design-build general contractor serving the commercial and light industrial market, specializing in the use of pre-engineered buildings as construction solutions for their many clients and their varying applications.
Huntington physician receives recognition Dr. Frank Rivas, a Huntington physician has been honored by the Society of Cardiac Computed Tomography, a prestigious society for CT of heart and arteries. Rivas has been asked to join the peripheral Vascular Disease council, which is devoted to high-quality patient studies of the arteries to the brain, chest, abdomen and arteries, stents and bypasses to the legs. Rivas has privileges at St. Mary's Medical Center and Cabell Huntington Hospital.