Articles Tagged with ''Best of the Best Projects''

Due to its easement agreement with a mining company, the Minnesota Dept. of Transportation had to relocate 3.2 miles of U.S. Highway 53 in the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota to allow mining operations to continue. 

Austin is a permanent piece of the Blanton Museum of Art’s collection and is the only building designed by artist Ellsworth Kelly, who gifted the design concept to the museum in January 2015. It was Kelly’s final project before his death in December 2015.

In delivering Orlando International Airport’s $262-million South Airport Automated People Mover Complex via the construction management-at-risk approach—a first for the owner—contractor Hensel Phelps would be tasked with an unusually demanding coordination effort.

It was after 9 p.m. on Aug. 3, 2017, at the topped-out Biodesign Institute C at Arizona State University in Tempe.

When Holland, Mich., had to retire its aging coal-fired power plant, city officials and the community reimagined what a power plant could be.

What makes a project outstanding? To answer that question, every year, ENR invites teams from around the country to submit their best work to its regional Best Projects competitions, where it is judged on teamwork, safety, problem-solving, innovation and quality.

Fabricated at a former dry dock for World War II ships located near Baltimore, 11 concrete tubes—each 10 times larger than a subway car—were towed 220 miles down the Chesapeake Bay by tugboats to Portsmouth, Va., without incident.

In aspiring to create the first structure in California to meet the Living Building Challenge—and become one of only a handful of such projects around the globe—the team behind the Sacramento offices for Architectural Nexus confronted a steep learning curve. 

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) describes the new Space Launch System—which will propel the agency’s Orion spacecraft to deep-space destinations—as being designed to be “flexible and evolvable” in order to accommodate varying sizes of rockets.