As the largest single infrastructure project in Kansas City history, this $1.5-billion, 1.1-million-sq-ft design-build effort replaced a three-terminal facility to streamline airport operations and improve passenger experience.

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.

With sustainability and historic preservation in mind, Pepper Construction transformed a turn-of-the-20th-century building that formerly was the site of a mattress factory into its regional Ohio office.

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.

Located adjacent to the Kansas State University campus, the $1.25-billion National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility enables agencies to conduct comprehensive research, develop vaccines and provide enhanced diagnostic capabilities to protect against diseases that threaten the nation’s food supply and public health.

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.

The $11.5-million Lift Station 87 Wet Weather Flow Transfer facility in St. Petersburg, Fla., is bolstering the city’s sewer and wastewater capabilities.