The 49,397-sq-ft Valley Health Cancer Center consolidates the Winchester Medical Center’s cancer services into one freestanding building. 

Delivered under a design-build contract, this project in an outer suburb of Washington, D.C., needed to be completed within 21 months after the contract award so that the Montgomery County Public Schools and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission could occupy the facilities.

The new U.S. Diplomacy Center houses the nation’s first museum dedicated exclusively to the practice of U.S. diplomacy and also serves as the new public entrance and screening area for the U.S. Dept. of State headquarters.

With several climate-controlled buildings and animal enclosures, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s more than 3,000-acre site had a large monthly electric bill. 

Scheduling constraints and working with sensitive equipment made construction of this liquefied natural gas facility in northeastern Pennsylvania challenging.

Located two blocks from Independence Hall, just steps from Carpenter’s Hall and across the street from the First Bank of the United States, the 118,000-sq-ft museum (ENR MidAtlantic 6/16 p. 28) was squeezed into a tight site in Philadelphia’s Old City.

The museum has had several additions and renovations since it opened in 1977 in Richmond’s former Broad Street railroad station. 

Designed to achieve net-zero energy use, the renovated 20,000-sq-ft space incorporates numerous sustainable elements as well as data-driven decisions to create what DPR calls a “living laboratory” that showcases technologies, products and systems.