Connecticut Quality Improvement Award

We thrive on innovation at Basement Systems! So it's with great pride, that we have accepted many Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Innovation Prizes over the years.

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award is America’s first state-level quality award that uses the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality for Performance Excellence criteria.

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award’s prestigious Innovation Prize is presented to organizations in Connecticut that have used innovation to create a new opportunity or solve an existing problem and can demonstrate numerically the benefit to its business and customers.

In 2009, we were recognized with the Gold award for our company’s unique Treehouse office space. With a growing web department that was running out of space for desks, company president Larry Janesky decided to make a change. Rather than squeezing in more cubicles he took it to another level and turned the web department into a treehouse. Using recycled lumber and other natural products he and a group of volunteers spent two weeks building a series of platforms and raised-loft workspaces.

This fantasy kind of workspace received a gold honor and the CQIA judges ranked it in the top 20 submissions for the innovation prize.