 Each of the nine builders appearing on the cover of this issue is unique. However, one builder, Peter Vander Schuyt, has certain credentials quite different from the others. Not only is Peter an award winning builder, but his role in the LIBI Awards is fundamental to the success of that annual event.
In 1998, Peter received the Silver Award at the annual NAHB convention in Dallas for the Best attached Community Development in the United States priced under $150,000. The award was given for a project in Port Jefferson Station called "Stonington." In addition, the project received two regional Gold awards, one for logo design and another for brochure design.
The awards are sponsored by the NAHB’s Sales and Marketing Council and are referred to as "MIRMs."
It was the second time that Peter, a member of the Long Island Builders Institute, received a runner-up award. In 1986, he received a Silver Award at the NAHB convention again in Dallas for Carriage Hill Estates, a 51-unit luxury home development in Melville, NY.
At each convention awards are given out in recognition for advertising, brochures, logo designs, interior merchandising, sales offices, landscape design as well as taking note of the country’s top new sales and marketing people.
Peter, a builder with Sea Crest Development, also built a 33-unit condominum called Landmark Colony in Oyster Bay around the home of Ethel Roosevelt Derby, the daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt.
But it was at the l998 convention in Dallas that the idea for the LIBIs came up. With Bob Wieboldt attending the convention and witnessing the ceremony, a discussion followed that suggested a plan to give greater exposure to members of the Long Island Builders Institute through the introduction of an awards ceremony. Thus was born the LIBI Awards.
The LIBI Awards were started in 1999 when close to 400 members of LIBI were jammed into the Milleridge Cottage in Jericho and took more than two hours. The ceremony has now shifted to the Huntington Hilton. Since then, due to the introduction of carefully edited video entries, the awards program itself takes one hour. It is then followed by dinner.
The management of this major builders’ event is still in the hands of Peter and Bob Wieboldt and still going strong. 
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