Two Midwest projects, the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids Mich., and BP Bright Lights, a Chicago-based office facility, are among the winners of Engineering News-Record's fourth-annual Best of the Best Projects Awards, a competition among 119 Best Projects winners awarded by ENR’s seven regional publications. Winners will be profiled in the Feb. 13, 2012 issue of ENR. Photo Courtesy of Lend Lease BP Bright Lights, Chicago, was named Best Interior Design/Tenant Improvement Project for 2011 An independent panel of design and construction professionals selected 18 winners in categories ranging from green building to transportation. Projects were judged on

The $8.7-million Midway Crossings at University of Chicago locates a series of landscaped interventions resembling bridges along Midway Plaisance Park, a historic, mile-long parcel designed by famed architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

The Village of Skokie, Ill., not only made the unlikely move of selecting a dilapidated warehouse for its new $21.7-million, 75,000-sq-ft police headquarters, but it achieved LEED-Gold certification in the bargain.

A $1.2-million renovation program allowed the Minneapolis-based YouthLink Youth Opportunity Center to consolidate health care, housing, crisis stabilization and employment assistance for homeless and marginalized youths into its existing facility.

This meticulous historic restoration returned key public spaces of the 96-year-old Hotel Blackhawk in Davenport, Iowa, to their original glory, while a new, adjoining structure serves as a grand entrance for the 191,000-sq-ft facility.

The Springfield, Mo.-based John Twitty Energy Center Unit 2, a 300-MW coal-fired plant equipped with state-of-the-art emission reduction technology, ranks among the nation's cleanest and operates well below permissible limits established by state and federal laws.

Explosive growth along the four-lane, divided Keystone Parkway Corridors in Carmel, Ind., not only resulted in snarls, but as many as 200 accidents a year.

One of three projects undertaken by Ameren to reduce harmful emissions from coal-fired powerplants, the installation of two new wet flue gas desulfurization scrubber systems at Ameren's Sioux Energy Center in West Alton, Mo., required more than 2.2 million man-hours and as many as 550 craftsworkers during peak periods.

The expansion of Ohio State University (OSU) Medical Center in Columbus is not only one of the largest health-care projects ever undertaken in the state, but also changing the way public projects are being built there. The $1.1-billion, multi-year development is among the first to be delivered via construction management (CM) at risk. Photo Courtesy of Turner Construction Co. The $1.4-billion Ohio State University Medical Center, currently under construction in Columbus, is one of the first projects in the state to utilize construction management at risk. Until recently, state law required public entities to employ multiple prime contracting to manage

Its neoclassical trappings belie the contemporary design solutions required to harmoniously blend form and function at the $118-million, 1,600-seat Palladium Center for Performing Arts, the heart of a new arts and cultural district in Carmel, Ind.