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Clemson Energy Innovation Center is ENR's Editors' Choice Winner for Best Of The Best 2014

However, what started as a wind-energy test center is still evolving and broadening its reach. The university is working to develop what could be the world's first virtual test bed for wind-turbine drivetrains, which would enable manufacturers to evaluate designs as a precursor to physical testing.

Arguably more significant is the school's pending creation of a solar-array simulator, which eventually will be integrated with the existing grid simulator, so manufacturers can study how best to deploy their equipment and how that equipment might affect the grid.

Says Rigas, "We're pretty excited."

Project Team

Submitted by Choate Construction Co.

Owner Clemson University Restoration Institute

Lead Design Firm AEC Engineering

General Contractor Choate Construction Co.

Architect, MEP Engineer Davis & Floyd

Scott Judy is ENR’s Managing Editor. His roughly 34 years as a construction journalist began with an 11-year stint visiting and writing about construction projects in the Midwest region of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. Then, in 2000, Judy helped launch ENR Southeast, now known as ENR Texas & Southeast. After all these years, Judy says his favorite part of being an ENR editor is visiting job sites and learning how—and reporting on—a team’s approach to overcoming the project’s design and construction challenges. And Judy says he never turns down an invitation for a project visit.