Despite a challenging construction market, ENR California's 2012 Best Projects demonstrate that design and construction teams continued to push forward with exemplary and innovative work. Jurors selected 40 projects for awards in 15 categories. One was chosen as our Best Overall Project of 2012.
This year's Best Overall Project, the $956-million Palomar Medical Center in Escondido (p. CA14), is the largest building of its kind to use an integrated project delivery (IPD) method and one of only two hospitals in the United States with natural daylight in its operating rooms. It is one of two winning health care projects to use IPD: An Award of Merit goes to the Sutter Health Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley (p. CA31). It was the largest project under construction in California when it broke ground in 2007.