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American Dream Continues for Cortec® Founder Whose Home Wins Aurora Award |
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Industry and elegance meet in a luxury
Sarasota Bay waterfront home that won silver
at the 41st Aurora Awards "Celebrating
Design for Living." But there is more to the
story than just another beautifully designed
luxury home. Sitting on the shore of Longboat
Key, Florida, Villa Azure is the brainchild of
Boris and Ines Miksic, the owners of Cortec
Corporation, a private company that focuses on creating solutions to corrosion for the industrial market.
Cortec's solutions get down and dirty to stop rust on auto parts, on oil and gas rigs, in power plants, in
metalworking operations, in industrial water systems, and much more. Boris Miksic started the company
over 40 years ago in a classic example of the American Dream: immigrate to the United States with $37
dollars in your pocket, start a business out of your home, and grow that business into a multimillion dollar
organization with a global reach, meanwhile helping industries around the world protect industrial
equipment and properties from corrosion damage. That is the practical side of the story that also has a direct
impact on Villa Azure's life expectancy.
The design side comes from Boris Miksic's wife,
Ines, who custom-designed Villa Azure inside and
out, complete with a three-level infinity edge pool
overlooking the 230 feet (70 m) of shoreline on
beautiful Sarasota Bay. Perrone Construction,
who custom-built the Miksic home, stated, "Villa
Azure defies convention and takes you on a
journey through her owners' imaginations. . . .
Designed entirely by the owners, this truly
bespoke home maintains a constant flow of experiences for the senses."
How is this innovative award-winning luxury property protected so near to the water's edge? True to nature
as the founder of a corrosion inhibitor manufacturing company, Boris Miksic requested that Cortec’s MCI®-
2005 admixture be incorporated into the concrete mix design to help the customary erosion-control seawall
last for future generations even in a corrosive subtropical seawater environment. By specifying MCI®-2005
for use in a dense concrete mix, Miksic ended up with a seawall with a life expectancy of over 150 years
before repairs.
The admixture was produced locally at the Cortec® Biotechnology Campus in
Sarasota, Florida. The proximity of manufacture combined with the fact that
MCI®-2005 contains 67% USDA certified biobased content are two important
factors that would allow the
project to earn credits toward LEED certification, if desired.
MCI®-2005 is easy for ready-mixers to work with and meets
physical property and corrosion reduction requirements set
forth in ASTM C1582 for corrosion inhibiting admixtures
used in a chloride environment. It delays time to corrosion and
reduces corrosion rates once started. It is also NSF Standard
61 certified for use in potable water structures, another positive characteristic for application in a sensitive
subtropical coastal environment.
Villa Azure is a dream home in more ways than
one. In addition to capturing the 2020 Silver Aurora
Award in the category of "Best Custom Home
4,000 to 6,000 sq. ft.," it is the actualization of Ines
Miksic's design vision and Boris Miksic's
American Dream of successful enterprise-in a
form he hopes to preserve for future generations.
Learn more about this exciting custom-designed home, built for elegance and comfort, on the:
Perrone Construction website
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Ove izbore ipak je obilježio Boris Mikšić. Dečko s Trešnjevke koji je vlastitim novcem financirao kampanju, gospodarstveniku bez podrške političkih stranaka, drugi krug pobjegao je u posljednji trenutak. Iza sebe je ostavio iskusnu političarku Đurđu Adlešić, HSP-ovu uzdanicu Slavena Leticu, Tuđmanova maga Ivića Pašalića. Građani su nagradili to što je kampanju financirao vlastitim novcem. Njegov uspjeh jasna je i jaka poruka hrvatskih građana političarima - da im sve manje vjeruju. Klasična politička pljuska.
Večernji list, 04. siječnja 2005.
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