This year's Best Projects competition reached a broader geographic region than ever before as ENR Southeast expanded its “call for entries” to Alabama, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., along with the magazine's core coverage area of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
With a $170-million investment, Rolls-Royce undertook its first-ever North America greenfield site development for this 180,000-sq-ft facility built for the manufacturing of parts for aerospace engines used by Boeing and Airbus.
The 198,000-sq-ft Sarasota County Technical Institute represents the second of three phases of development. Partnered with the Suncoast Polytechnical High School, the new facility provides polytechnical and technical education on one campus for 11th- and 12th-grade students.
The $3.7-million, 12,227-sq-ft Bread for the City expansion project in Washington, D.C., delivered needed space for a nonprofit organization providing food, medical care, legal advice and other social services to low-income residents.
Updating to the latest in sports training technology was the driving force behind the University of Georgia's $40-million Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall expansion project in Athens.
The $280-million facility was built to enable effective command and control of Joint-Coalition-Interagency Operations, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and other agencies.
Home to the University of Georgia's gymnastics team and men's and women's basketball teams, historic Stegeman Coliseum, built in 1961, received a dramatic $11-million renovation and expansion.
The 150,000-sq-ft cancer center, named for Emily Couric, the late Virginia state senator, features modern architecture that differs markedly from the rest of the surrounding campus.