Demonstrating industry benchmarks for safe practices, this project for a 1.27-mile-long elevated rail system at Miami International Airport achieved "world-class results," according to the experts who judged ENR's first-ever "Best of the Best" award for project safety.
The $7.5-million University of Texas at Dallas Visitor Center and University Bookstore was designed to be an open and flexible space for events and a new front door to the campus.
Photo Courtesy Gate Precast Co. The striking gray panels feature both concave and convex radii. Related Links: See all of the Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Precast Concrete Museum Challenges Project Team Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Occupying a 170-ft-tall building that sits on a 180,000-sq-ft site, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas features a facade that is made up of more than 700 unique precast-concrete panels that cover the museum's tower, atrium and plinth.Project team members faced multiple obstacles in the production, quality and installation of this
Photo by Ben Tanner Photography The baseball park received LEED Gold certification. Related Links: See all of the Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Marlins Park Wins Southeast Project of the Year Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Designers of the nation's first retractable-roof stadium engineered to withstand 146-mph winds achieved the feat with an innovative strategy: The roof was kept partially open. This move would minimize internal pressures in the event of a storm-induced breach of the structure. It also eliminated the need for an estimated 1,000 tons of steel, cutting project
Related Links: See all of the Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Industry professionals from all across the U.S. donated their time and expertise to help ENR identify and honor the most outstanding construction efforts completed in the U.S. and Puerto Rico between July 2011 and June 2012. Nearly 1,000 project teams submitted their best work to ENR's regional "Best Projects" competitions. For each of the nine regions, our editors assembled an independent panel of industry judges to home in on the winners in 19 categories. The winners of the regional contests moved on to the national competition.A new
Photo by Timothy Hursley Related Links: Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Complex Museum Captures the Beauty of Arkansas Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a 200,000-sq-ft museum and cultural center, features complex geometric forms inspired by the local Arkansas landscape as well as the suspension bridges of Bhutan.The museum was built using bridge engineering to create hanging structures, suspending the museum above a creek bed. Two suspended cable-and-wood buildings were secured using specially designed rock anchors to stabilize the large abutments on both roofs. Engineers used
Designed for net-zero energy consumption and LEED Platinum certification, this $37.2-million, two-story building in Los Angeles features a green roof of low-water succulents.
Related Links: Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Palomar Medical Center's Stellar Project Delivery The $956-million, 750,000-sq-ft Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, Calif. is one of the largest buildings in the U.S. to use integrated project delivery principles and one of only two U.S. hospitals with day-lit operating rooms, according to DPR Construction.Completed ahead of schedule and within budget, the facility includes an 11-story patient tower and a two-story diagnostic and treatment wing, topped by a 1.5-acre green roof planted with native flora to mimic nearby hillsides.
Photo by Benjamin Benschneider Related Links: Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 UW Molecular Building Accelerates Construction Phases Situated within the central science core of the University of Washington's Seattle campus, the $59-million, 90,000-sq-ft first phase of the master-planned Molecular Engineering & Sciences Building was designed to create a multidisciplinary research setting and strengthen existing science programs.To fit the facility on the site, historic Cunningham Hall—built in 1909 as part of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition—had to be relocated. Within this footprint, the design took advantage of the topography
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