An 850,000-sq-ft LEED-Platinum corporate headquarters, a center for homeless youth and a cable-stayed bridge spanning the Missouri River are among the projects a panel of industry professionals have awarded top honors in ENRMidwest's Best Projects 2011 competition, an annual program recognizing outstanding design and construction in a variety of categories.
Q: I requested an entry form, but it was blocked by my company’s email. A: The file, a PDF, is completely safe. However, some IT depts. have tight restrictions on emailed files. Your IT dept should be able to release the file for you if requested to. Alternately, you can request the PDF be sent to a personal email or any other email outside your company firewall.Q: How much does it cost to enter? Will I be required to purchase anything if I win?A: Best Projects 2011 is a free competition. You can submit as many projects as you like,
Ready, set, enter! ENR’s 2011 Best Projects competition has now begun. This will be the first competition since McGraw-Hill Construction’s former regional magazines were integrated into the ENR brand. “With more than 1,000 entries, the annual Best Projects competition has become one of the premier awards programs in the industry, particularly focusing on an entire project’s life cycle, not just on the design or the construction phase,” says Scott Blair, ENR Southwest editor. Blair has been involved with the Best Projects competition for more than 10 years and led the team that brought the awards program to the national stage
Three California projects were among the 21 winners of McGraw-Hill Construction's third annual Best of the Best Awards, a national competition that recognizes design and construction excellence based on regional winners of McGraw-Hill Construction's 10 regional publications' Best of 2010 Awards.
Built on a 30,000-sq-ft site with zero laydown area, The Austonian project team had to lease an adjacent 5,000-sq-ft staging area during construction and orchestrate material deliveries with precision.
As the world’s first global musical instrument museum, this 190,000-sq-ft building houses more than 12,000 instruments and objects, representing musical traditions from folk and electronic to ritual and classical.
The City wanted an urban structure balancing functional needs with innovative design. Despite tight budget constraints, the project team more than delivered.
The new 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park, which will stretch 1.3 miles along the borough’s East River edge, will be the largest park in Brooklyn in 150 years when it is finished.