ENR Best of the Best 2024
March 13, 2025
ENR Best of the Best 2024
March 13, 2025Design by Scott Hilling/ENR, original photo by Mike Torrey Photography
ENR Best of the Best 2024
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Meet the Judges
The 20 projects recognized here are the result of a nearly yearlong effort by ENR editors and roughly 100 construction industry members who judged contest entries at various stages.
Representing the pinnacle of U.S. design and construction achievements for work completed between May 2023 and May 2024, this year’s award winners show the industry at its best, with teams overcoming an array of challenges to deliver impactful community assets.
Responding to ENR’s initial call for entries in March 2024, well over 800 project teams submitted entries. In each of ENR’s regions, editors assembled judging teams to pick winners in 20 categories. Of those regional winners, more than 200 moved up to the national competition.
A new group of judges examined each to determine the Best of the Best in terms of teamwork, safety, overcoming challenges, innovation and quality.
Three projects were shortlisted as Project of the Year nominees, with the County of San Diego Southeastern Live Well Center receiving top recognition. Join ENR to celebrate the winners at the Award of Excellence gala in New York City March 27.
For more information, visit ENRAwardofExcellence.com.
The Projects
- Project of the Year: Design-Builders Over-Deliver for Underserved Community
- Project of the Year Finalist, Airport/Transit: Northwest Phase II Extension Light Rail Transit
- Project of the Year Finalist, Highway/Bridge: Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
- Best Office/Retail/Mixed-Use: The Aerie On-Mountain Restaurant
- Best K-12 Education: Bard High School Early College
- Best Energy/Industrial: Baytown Supermodule Furnace Project
- Best Sports/Entertainment: Colorado Convention Center
- Best Residential/Hospitality: The Fifth Avenue Hotel
- Best Interior/Tenant Improvement: Google St. John's Terminal
- Best Landscape/Urban Development: East Midtown Greenway
- Excellence in Sustainability: County of San Mateo, County Office Building 3 (COB3)
- Best Health Care: Mayo Clinic AZ Bold Forward West Expansion
- Excellence in Safety: Midtown Union
- Best Cultural/Worship: Missouri Botanical Garden Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center
- Best Higher Education/Research: Advanced Engineering Building at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Best Small Project: Spellacy Bridge Reconstruction Project
- Best Manufacturing: United Therapeutics cGMP Warehouse
- Best Renovation/Restoration: Victory Lofts
- Best Water/Environment: Denver Water Northwater Treatment Plant
- Best Specialty Construction: Minnesota Zoo Treetop Trail
The Judges
Joe Cazares
Jacobs
Senior Program Manager, Transit/Rail
Nicholas DeNichilo
Mott MacDonald
President and CEO (Retired)
Keith Douglas
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.
Executive Vice President
Bart Eberwein
Hoffman Corp.
Executive Vice President (Retired)
Camilo Garcia
DPR Construction
Northeast Co-Regional Leader
Emily Harrold
Multistudio
Principal
Sam Hassoun
GLA Corp.
Founder and President
Randy Iwasaki
Iwasaki Consulting Services
CEO
Parham Khoshkbari
Google
Director of Infrastructure
A. Ben Perrone
Sundt Construction
Project Director
Rachel Rasmussen
Architekton
Architect and Principal
John Schaufelberger
University of Washington
Dean Emeritus, College of Built Environments
Cliff Schexnayder
Consultant
Emeritus Eminent Scholar, Del E. Webb School of Construction, Arizona State University
Brad Tackett
Sundt Construction
Vice President and Business Development Manager
Claire Weisz
WXY Architecture + Urban Design
Founding Principal
Excellence in Safety Judges
Steve Acosta
Blach Construction
Senior Safety Manager
Carl Heinlein
American Contractors
Senior Safety Consultant
Excellence in Sustainability Judges
Yayu Lin
Sares Regis Group of Northern California
President, Commercial Development + Advisory
Shefali H. Sanghvi
Dattner Architects
Director of Sustainability and Associate Principal
