Like a magician, Fretz Construction Co., based in Houston, sliced the historic St. Mary's Catholic Church in half, added a new portion, reassembled the pieces and deftly blurred the transition from old to new.
Targeting LEED Silver, the 275,000-sq-ft Irving Convention Center comprises four levels of cantilevered, rotated masses reaching the height of a 14-story building.
Providing a college preparatory curriculum for as many as 500 students, the 104,000-sq-ft Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Collegiate Academy is on a 10-acre greenfield site adjacent to a nature preserve south of Dallas.
A learning and leadership-development destination for Deloitte University, this 780,000-sq-ft campus covers 107-plus acres and includes a four-acre irrigation pond and three structures, including the main building, which is a third of a mile long.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the Hurricane Storm Damage Risk Reduction System to provide the New Orleans area 100-year-event flood protection. In just 11 months, Edison, N.J.-based Conti Group delivered the $53-million HSDRRS Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity (LPV) 149 Project.
The Dept. of General Services Central Plant in Sacramento provides chilled water for cooling, steam for heating and control air to 23 state-owned buildings in the Capitol area.
When a gift from the Stephen Bechtel Fund allowed a partial facilities overhaul at the Public Policy Institute of California, the challenge was to fit a large conference center into a relatively small infill space and configure it around a grid of imposing structural columns and a jungle of existing mechanical infrastructure.
Achieving construction and design excellence in difficult economic times is no easy task. It requires equal measures of experience, imagination and unwavering commitment, according to this year's judges for ENR California's Best Projects competition.
Meeting the challenge of transforming a striking design by a high-profile architect into a workable, sustainable reality—and completing the job on budget—is what separates ENR California's 2011 Region's Best Project, the Kravis Center at Claremont McKenna College, from other contenders this year.
ENR California wants to thank this year's judges, who, once again, faced the formidable task of reviewing a large amount of information on the 116 submitted projects before selecting the winners.
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