The key trends of 2024 will persist into 2025: Material price stabilization, labor shortages, growth in digital infrastructure and renewable energy construction, with 2-6% average cost escalations.
From 120 contest entries, this year's Global Best Projects judges selected 35 winning projects—located in 19 different countries—for demonstrating construction and design excellence while overcoming tremendous challenges.
The coming year presents a complex landscape for the construction industry. Cost, risk and growth will be impacted by geopolitical turmoil, inflation and increased regulatory complexity.
In this eleventh year of the annual ENR Global Best Projects Awards, a panel of industry judges selected, among more than 100 entries, 31 winning projects from 23 different countries.