Wisconsin Power & Light Co.’s largest coal-fired power plant, Columbia Energy Center, with two subcritical units over 500 MW, was required to bring its air emissions into compliance with federal standards.
The winning projects on the following pages reflect the culmination of a nearly year-long effort put forth by dozens of industry judges and the ENR editorial team to identify and highlight the pinnacle of design and construction achievement among U.S. projects completed between June 2014 and June 2015.
The adaptive-reuse 100 Van Ness project transformed an outdated 29-story office building into a modern apartment community offering 418 units and many indoor and outdoor amenities in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood.
Albuquerque Convention Center authorities engaged the project team to transform the 1960s-era building into a structure that would capture “Albuquerque’s unique spirit” while not impinging on operations.
Builders’ 15-month conversion of an occupied Atlanta office tower into a high-energy commercial space for technology-based startup companies proved the potential of innovative design and construction.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Environmental Center is the first building in the U.S. to get a permit to make potable water from rainwater. That is no small accomplishment. T
One World Trade Center’s 408-ft-tall steel spire, which sits atop the skyscraper’s 1,368-ft superstructure, makes the 1,776-ft-tall One WTC the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth tallest in the world.
Rural Lake Mills, Wis., replaced an overcrowded, outdated elementary school, built in 1964, with a K-4 elementary school that was not just up to date but also designed under the LEED v4 Beta Program, the next version of the LEED rating system.
Many industry organizations annually recognize leaders who have helped to shape the future of all the sectors and professions that make up the construction industry.
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