Articles Tagged with ''Award Of Merit''

Spanning more than 30 acres, this $92-million campus creates a space for first responders to receive specialized, scenario-based training that emphasizes hands-on tactical practice in real-world situations.

Last reconstructed more than 30 years ago, Hennepin Avenue received an update in 2022 that repaired and replaced street and utility infrastructure.

As part of the community and economic revitalization effort around Chicago’s Old Post Office, Canal Street Plaza’s reconstruction required an innovative construction approach thanks to its structure-on-structure design.

Opened in 1889, Merchants Bridge over the Mississippi River is the second-oldest river span serving the St. Louis region, and by 2018, it had far exceeded its design life.

By co-locating vehicle and equipment maintenance and repair facilities onto a new campus, this project combines four existing facilities into one.

To complete the major demolition and rehabilitation of this 100-year-old pump station, the project team replaced 36-in. and 42-in. discharge piping with a new loop piping arrangement, which included removing and replacing the concrete structure with new auger cast piles, slabs, walls and decking around this discharge piping.

German candy manufacturer Haribo built its first U.S. production facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., with zero reportable injuries during the nearly two-year project.

Project teams recognized as this year’s ENR New York and New England regional Best Project winners impressed industry judges in their submissions with details of how team members collaborated to overcome key execution challenges and devised solutions that could have broader industry benefit.

From a federal biocontainment facility in tornado-prone Kansas to a center honoring the military and its history in Wisconsin to an effort to stabilize a road on a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, dozens of projects were honored this year in ENR Midwest’s 2023 Best Projects, a competition that highlights the cream of the crop in the construction industry.

It’s never an easy task for our panels of industry judges to review all of the submissions from project teams to select the Best Projects winners, and this year was particularly difficult given the quality of work completed in the past year in the Southwest.