I am pleased to present the winners of ENR’s Best of the Best Projects for 2016, the culmination of a nearly year-long effort put forth by dozens of industry judges and the ENR editorial team to identify the pinnacle of design and construction achievement in the entire U.S. among projects completed between May 2015 and June 2016.
The competition began last March with a call for entries to the construction industry, which resulted in more than 700 industry project teams submitting their work to the regional Best Projects competitions. In each of the 10 regions, the editors assembled panels of judges to select the regional winners in 20 categories.
Once the regional winners were chosen, the top winners in each category from each region moved up to the national competition. A brand new set of judges from across the country and from all walks of the industry examined each project in an effort to distinguish the best from the best in terms of teamwork, safety, overcoming challenges, innovation and quality. One remaining award, Excellence in Safety, is being judged by a panel of industry safety experts and will be announced shortly.
The projects and judges will be featured in more depth in the March 3, 2017 issue of ENR. Also in that issue, the editors of ENR will select one project from the winning projects selected by the judges as the Project of the Year, which won’t be revealed until the issue date. Until then, on behalf of the staff of ENR and all the judges, congratulations to all the winners!
Come celebrate the winners at the Best of the Best Projects Awards Banquet in New York City. The project teams will be honored at the Award of Excellence gala dinner at the New York Hilton Midtown on April 13, and award plaques will be presented to the project teams at a breakfast ceremony on April 14. For more information, visit www.enrawardofexcellence.com/.
Note: if you have an outstanding project located anywhere in the world, be sure to submit it to ENR’s next competition – Global Best Projects, which will begin accepting entries in a few weeks. At least one project team member firm must be based outside of the country where the project site is located. Check http://www.enr.com/bestprojects/global for general information about the contest. The entry form will go live in mid-February.
Number 7 Subway Line Extension, located in New York City. Submitted by Hill International Inc. to ENR New York.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion, located in San Francisco. Submitted by Webcor Builders to ENR California.
Elk Station 2 & 3, located in Abernathy, Texas. Submitted by TIC-The Industrial Co. to ENR Texas & Louisiana.
Onondaga Lakeview Amphitheater, located in Syracuse, N.Y. Submitted by Gilbane Building Co. to ENR New York.
Google Kirkland Campus - Building D, located in Kirkland, Wash. Submitted by DLR Group to ENR Northwest.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care, located in Philadelphia. Submitted by Turner Construction Co. to ENR MidAtlantic.
Allen Institute, located in Seattle. Submitted by McKinstry to ENR Northwest.
CDOT Twin Tunnels Expansion Program CMGC, located in Idaho Springs, Colo. Submitted by Kraemer North America LLC to ENR Mountain States.
Nixon Peabody, located in Washington, D.C. Submitted by DAVIS Construction to ENR MidAtlantic.
Wayne County - Grantham Middle School & Spring Creek Middle School, located in Goldsboro, N.C. Submitted by Metcon Inc. to ENR Southeast.
African Adventure at Fresno Chaffee Zoo, located in Fresno, Calif. Submitted by Harris Construction Co. Inc. to ENR California.
New Belgium East Coast Brewery, located in Asheville, N.C. Submitted by Adolfson & Peterson Construction to ENR Southeast.
The Tower at PNC Plaza, located in Pittsburgh. Submitted by Gensler to ENR MidAtlantic.
The Gin at the Hutto Co-Op District, located in Hutto, Texas. Submitted by American Constructors Inc. to ENR Texas & Louisiana.
Community First! Village, located in Austin, Texas. Submitted by Stantec to ENR Texas & Louisiana.
Baltimore Visitor Center Renovation, located in Baltimore. Submitted by Wohlsen Construction Co. to ENR MidAtlantic.
Antony Gormley Sculpture Fabrication & Installation, located in Cambridge, Mass. Submitted by Summit Metal Fabricators to ENR New England.
Polk Penguin Conservation Center at the Detroit Zoo, located in Detroit. Submitted by DeMaria/Wharton-Smith JV to ENR Midwest.
Blue Plains Tunnel, located in Washington, D.C. Submitted by DC Water to ENR MidAtlantic.
