Southern Components, Inc. and Aegis Metal Framing, LLC teamed up to pull out the stops in building the Collins family a high quality, energy-efficient home in just one week. Aegis and Southern Components provided the steel materials and fabrication, of cold formed metal framing trusses to top the “Green” home.

According to Bob Ward, President, Southern Components, “ We were delighted to participate in this most worthwhile project. Thanks to the quick response of Aegis and our steel division, the Collins family home was built on time and on schedule. I couldn’t be happier with the outcome.”

The "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" design team's focus was truly about helping one local logger's family persevere through tough times by giving them a home that is large enough to help raise their extended family of six children. Kim and Dennis Collins' teenage son, Mitchell, survived a rare-form of brain cancer to become a positive inspiration to others. He now collects pop tabs from soda cans in an effort to help raise money for juvenile cancer patients and the Arkansas Children's Hospital. The Collins' also opened their small home to five more children when Kim's cousin was killed. Thanks to thousands of volunteers and committed neighbors, the Collins' will come home to a house large enough for this loving family of eight.