Best Project, Cultural: Dakar International Congress Center
In October 2013, when SUMMA Turizm Yatirimciligi A.S. signed its design-build contract for the $68.3-million Dakar International Congress Center in Senegal, the race began to produce the 14,270-sq-meter project in just one year.
For most jobs, design alone would take a year, says Arif Alperen Kibar, the Istanbul-based SUMMA's project coordinator. The team would likely not have met its October 2014 completion deadline without its strategy of super-fast-tracked design-build delivery.