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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'

Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The Streamsong Resort, in Bowling Green, Fla., and built by PCL Construction Services, won the Best Residential award.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Built by Suffolk Construction, the Fort Lauderdale Temple project won this year's Best Cultural/Worship award.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The $389-million Martin Army Community Hospital project at Fort Benning, Ga., won the award for Best Health Care.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Duke University's Environment Hall, built by Lend Lease (US) Construction, won the Best Green Project award.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
ENR Southeast's Best Projects judges named the PortMiami Tunnel as this year's Infrastructure Project of the Year.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
A joint venture of Barnhill Contracting and Balfour Beatty Construction led construction of the $153-million Wake County Justice Center, which won the Best Government and Public Building award.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
BB&T Ballpark, built by the joint venture of Rodgers Barton Malow Leeper, won the Best Sports/Entertainment award.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The $163-million Marsico Hall project at the University of North Carolina won this year's Excellence in Safety Award. The Choate Construction-led project also won an Award of Merit in the higher education project category.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The Florida Dept. of Transportation's repairs to the damaged Mathews Bridge in Jacksonville won the Best Projects award for Emergency Repairs.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The Chattahoochee River Restoration and Columbus, Ga., Whitewater project used environmental restoration to create a recreational attraction. Batson-Cook Co. was the contractor.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The interiors project for Carter's Inc. in Atlanta earned Choate Construction the Best Interiors/Tenant Improvement award.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
For the North Atlanta High School project, JE Dunn Construction converted an existing corporate office center into a high school. The project won the Best K-12 Education award.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The $12.6-million renovation of Duke University's 1920s-era Baldwin Auditorium into state-of-the-art performance venue earned LeChase Construction Services this year's Best Renovation/Restoration award from ENR Southeast.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The Florida Polytechnic University's Innovation, Science and Technology building was named Southeast Building Project of the Year.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The Red Ventures project in Indian Land, S.C., built by Choate Construction Co., won the Best Office/Mixed-Use/Retail award.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The $5.8-million Railroad Pedestrian Underpass project at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro won the Best Small Project award. New Atlantic Contracting was the project's contractor.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Choate Construction's SCE&G Innovation Center project in North Charleston, S.C., won the Best Energy/Industrial award.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
The renovation of Raleigh-Durham International Airport's Terminal 1 won the Best Airport/Transit award in this year's Best Projects contest.

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Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
Florida Polytechnic, PortMiami Tunnel Lead 2014's 'Best Projects'
November 3, 2014
Scott Judy
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For this year's Best Projects contest, ENR Southeast's panel of judges nominated two entries for the top award, the Southeast Project of the Year. In October, after ENR Southeast blogged the nominees—the Florida Polytechnic University's Innovation, Science and Technology Building and the PortMiami Tunnel—we heard from one project representative that the two were being viewed as "beauty and the beast."

While that perspective is certainly understandable, considering the pair's vastly different details, it should also be said that, really, both are beautiful examples of construction and engineering excellence. And in attempting to settle the debate over which of these two projects—each beautiful in its own way, and both surely "beasts" to build—ENR Southeast's independent panel of judges ultimately decided that both were worthy of the top award.

With that determination, ENR Southeast opted to make an exception for these two exceptional projects, recognizing the Florida Polytechnic University structure as the Building Project of the Year and the PortMiami Tunnel as the Infrastructure Project of the Year.

It's a fitting tribute. In each instance, builders went beyond the norm to construct projects that separately presented the teams with daunting design and construction challenges. Their undeniable success in overcoming such challenges is a defining characteristic of the construction and engineering industry.

At the same time, these two exceptional projects weren't the only Southeast contracts to impress this year's Best Projects judges. In all, this year's independent panel recognized more than 40 projects from across the states of Florida, Georgia, North and South Caroline, Alabama, Tennessee and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Links to each of the category winners will be included here.

Hats off to this year's judges, who selected not only these two projects but also the winners for the many project categories: Keith Douglas, with The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.; Ted Garrison, Garrison & Associates; Brett Kermode, PCL Civil Constructors; Jeffrey Lowe of McKim & Creed; Katherine Peele of LS3P; Ray Riddle, Holder Construction; and Alexandra Spencer, of SpencerSchurr & Associates.

ENR Southeast also recognizes this year's safety judges, who determined the winner of the Excellence in Safety award. They included George Guffey, with John Moriarty & Associates Florida, and David Lockhart, with Poole & Kent Co. of Florida.

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Scott Judy is Deputy Editor for Regions, and editor of ENR Southeast, one of Engineering News-Record's 10 Regional publications. His roughly 27 years as a construction journalist began with an 11-year stint covering Midwest construction projects. In 2000, Judy helped launch the publication now known as ENR Southeast. He often delves into controversial aspects of the construction industry such as bankruptcies and fatal accidents, and wishes he would never have to cover another accident but suspects that he might.

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