The Promenade project created a snow-melted walkway and daylit an underground creek with natural design features to connect businesses at the edge of the Steamboat Springs ski resort.
Designed to become the first LEED-Gold-certified health care facility in Utah, the 210,000-sq-ft South Jordan Health Center brings much-needed services to the southwest Salt Lake Valley.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's 140,000-sq-ft Research Support Facility II was designed to be one of the most energy-efficient office buildings in the world.
The 38 winners, along with an Overall Best Project winner, reviewed by a panel of judges, will be featured in the Dec. 3, 2012 issue of ENR California. The winners will also be honored at the annual Best Projects breakfast, scheduled for Dec. 6, 2012, at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Entries for ENR's Best Projects 2012 Competition have surpassed the 500 mark, an indication the program is gaining greater industry support in several regions of the nation. Many regions, including the Midwest, Northwest, Mid-Atlantic, California and Texas & Louisiana continue to actively solicit entries for the two-tiered program, which honors excellence in 18 categories ranging from office, health care and cultural/worship to industrial, landscaping and transportation.Projects first compete in one of nine regional contests, with expert panels of design and construction professionals evaluating projects on the basis of five criteria, including teamwork, safety and innovation. This fall, winning projects in
ENR’s annual Best Projects award program is dedicated to honoring the best construction projects and the companies that designed and built them in all 50 states plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. Photo by Patrick Coulie 2011 Cultural Regional Winner: V. Sue Cleveland High School Orchestra Hall Projects compete in 18 specialized categories, ranging from transportation to higher education. Independent juries of industry leaders in design and construction from each of ENR’s 10 regional editions will judge the projects using five criteria, including safety, innovation and teamwork. The winners will be honored at awards ceremonies held in each region in
The fourth annual Best of the Best Projects Awards recognize outstanding projects completed in 2011. The projects honored here were chosen from more than 730 entries received by regional juried competitions overseen by our regional editors. From the preliminary round, 119 contenders moved on to Engineering News-Record’s Best of the Best Projects 2011 Awards competition to be reviewed by the panel of 17 industry veterans from all across the U.S. and all walks of construction and design. The panel scored each project on criteria such as innovation, community contribution, teamwork, safety and design and construction excellence, and then discussed the