This year's Best Projects competition reached a broader geographic region than ever before as ENR Southeast expanded its “call for entries” to Alabama, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., along with the magazine's core coverage area of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. It was part of Engineering News-Record's goal of providing true national coverage for its Best of the Best competition, in which top award winners from these regional contests go on to compete for national recognition.
That widened reach added depth to this year's competition as a broad array of outstanding projects, including a wealth of federal contracts, competed for this year's Best Projects awards.