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.
Many of the Best Project and Award of Merit winners in the latest incarnation of the competition conquer and compliment nature on high-tech and infrastructure projects alike
Home to the Oregon Ducks softball team, the 1,500-seat Jane Sanders Stadium in Eugene, Ore., includes locker rooms, meeting spaces, coaches’ offices, training rooms and equipment space.
The creation of Bend Whitewater Park rehabilitated a stretch of the Deschutes River in Bend, Ore., creating an improved habitat for fish and wildlife as well as a safer passage for river rafters with the West Coast’s first “adjustable standing wave” kayak/surfing run.
The $11-million upgrade to the Asplund Wastewater Treatment Facility’s disinfection system allowed the Anchorage, Alaska, facility to stop using hauled-in chlorine gas for disinfection and instead use potentially less dangerous sodium hypochlorite to create chlorine gas on demand.
Originally built in the 1980s for industrial use, the historic Ivar’s Pier 54 was deteriorating and in need of seismic improvements following the 2001 Nisqually earthquake and a decade of deferred maintenance.
Built to bring outpatient services closer to patients, Seattle Children’s South Clinic is located within a shopping center in a former Circuit City store.
The $13-million Navos Behavioral Healthcare Center for Children, Youth & Families sits on the shores of Lake Burien and includes five buildings on 7.5 acres.