Alan Hoffmann Is 2022 Hugh Prather Award Honoree
The Dallas Builders Association has awarded the 2022 Hugh Prather Trophy to Alan Hoffmann, CGB, CGP, of Hoffmann Homes. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the Dallas BA and has been presented annually for the past 72 years to a builder, remodeler or developer member who has done the most for the betterment of the community and the industry as a whole.
The 2022 presentation was made during the Association’s Oct. 1 Installation of Leadership held at Las Colinas Country Club and presented by StrucSure Home Warranty.
The award was named for the Association’s first president, Hugh Prather, in hopes that his principles would serve as a guide for future generations of builders. It is not meant to be simply a “Builder of the Year,” but something more that reflects credit to the building industry.
Past recipients include homebuilding icons such as Dave Fox, W.W. Caruth Jr., Bob Folsom, Fred Roach, Kent Conine, Tommy Ford, N.D. Hopkins and Harold Pollman, among others.
2021 Prather recipient Frank Murphy of Wynne/Jackson presented the award.
Alan Hoffmann has been a member of the Dallas BA for the past 15 years and served as its president in 2018. He is extremely active on the local, state and national levels of the Association.
He serves on NAHB’s Leadership Council and its Building Systems Council. He is Past Chairman of TAB’s Legal Affairs Committee and is working with the City of Dallas on their pending zoning overhaul.
“For well over a decade, Alan Hoffmann has worked with Dallas BA staff on a litany of issues in the City of Dallas, starting with writing the city’s Green Building Ordinance,” said Executive Officer Phil Crone. “On this and several other code-related items, Alan’s ability to ‘talk the talk and walk the walk’ has been invaluable.”
A go-to source for media interviews, Hoffmann has represented the Dallas BA countless times on camera, most recently in the midst of the City of Dallas permitting crisis.
“He has never been afraid to stand his ground, and went head-to-head with a city government that threatened to arrest him for refusing to pay an excessive and illegal permit fee,” Murphy noted during the presentation. “This case produced excellent precedent for the industry from the Texas Supreme Court.”
Hoffmann also positively influenced elections in the City of McKinney by putting together a social media exposé on the illegal exaction that city leaders were demanding from his clients.
Considered a pioneer of sustainable building, Hoffmann has brought many “firsts” to the North Texas marketplace. He was the first builder to use Insulated Concrete Panels here and the first builder to use these for exterior walls for single-family structures. He is credited with building the first ICF homes in a number of cities in North Texas, and his company designed and built the first homes to be certified by the U.S. Green Building “LEED for Homes” program.
Photo: The Hoffmann Homes Team: Alison Charley, Alan and Pam Hoffmann and Charles Charley.