ENR announces its Best of the Best Projects winners 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.
To university engineers, the Stanford Energy System Innovations (SESI) project represents nothing less than a revolution in the way campuses in the U.S. should be heated and cooled.
Located on the largest industrial brownfield site in the U.S., the Hoover Mason Trestle elevated walkway offers visitors unique views and access to one of the last remaining open-hearth blast furnaces in the country.
The $2.1-billion North Tarrant Express is an expansive reconstruction project that stretches across a 13-mile, east-west highway corridor in Tarrant County, Texas.
By going beyond owner-mandated minimum standards and using digital tools to enhance safety measures and outcomes, the team building the $157-million Benjamin P. Grogan and Jerry L. Dove Federal Building in Miramar, Fla., made sure to sweat the project’s numerous, complicated details. Named for two FBI special agents killed during a 1986 shoot-out in Miami, the complex, four-building facility—located on a 20-acre site near the Everglades—totals 383,000 sq ft and includes executive, private and team offices, conference space, a fitness center, computer-training facilities and an armory.
Tasked to build a complex medical center that combines three different hospitals and an office building in a tight downtown space amid fast-changing regulation, technology and workforce trends, the University of California, San Francisco and its construction team “identified early the need to deliver this project differently,” says its project submission.
The Westar Energy constructed-wetland treatment system in northeast Kansas uses a novel, two-tiered approach to remove environmentally sensitive metals and selenium in wastewater effluent from a coal plant before they can harm natural vegetation and wildlife.
The best light show in the U.S. isn’t in Las Vegas or Times Square; it’s about 67 miles east of the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street in the Long Island hamlet of Upton, N.Y., at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
