BOULDER POLISHING

Vancil won an award in 2013 from Concrete Surfaces Magazine for the best new residential polish. His entry was a concrete bench. It won local and regional praise for Vancil and crew in his company dubbed Boulder Polishing, that is known for putting slick sheens and patterns into concrete floors and walls... While working on a project at the Salina Art Center in 2006, he met Heather Farrell, the art center executive director, and Jeff Day, Professor of Architecture at the University of Nebraska Lincoln... "She was installing a map on a polished concrete floor, something that caught my eye," Vancil said. "I talked to her a little bit, having no idea I'd be creating stuff with her, like I'm doing today."