ENR's Photo Contest Runners-Up
Photo of the Harpa (Reykjavik concert hall and conference centre) during the installation of one of the 10,000 glass windows in the buildings facade conceived of by artist Olafur Eliasson. Photograph was part of a research fellowship involving the study of cultural construction within the urban realm.
Christopher Karlson, project designer, Perkins+Will
A bird's eye view of the Boyabat Dam
Batuhan Nazar Salihoglu
This photo was captured at One World Trade Center in August as workers were installing curtain wall panels on the 84th floor.
Victor Nordstrom, graphics analyst, The Louis Berger Group, Inc.
A project in South Korea - Installation of scaffold for the exterior wall.
Yong Ho Shin, Hyundai Engineering
The new Amelia Earhart Bridge carries U.S. Highway 59 over the Missouri River between Atchison, Kan. and Winthrop, Mo., and replaces the existing steel truss bridge constructed in 1939. The overall bridge length is 2,546LF. The main span of the new four-lane, steel tied arch bridge is 527 ft. The structure of the new bridge is a network arch in which inclined intersecting hangers are used to minimize bending and shear in the arch ribs.
Nick Faul, project manager, Walsh Construction
Aerial overview from an adjacent parking structure deck of the County of San Diego Operations Center - Campus Center in Solana Beach. This image, taken a few weeks prior to completion, illustrates a few of the structure's prominent green features - the green roof and photovoltaic system. These were two of many features that earned the building a Platinum Certification from USGBC.
Bruce Heimbach, vice president, Project Management Advisors, Inc.
I had just a couple of seconds to capture this scene from a low vantage point as the sun was about to set.
Will Austin, Will Austin Photography
Our Iron workers were stretching way out in order to bolt up some of the connections.
Tom Corey, project superintendent, DPR Construction
Shot while covering the I-595 corridor improvements for GLF Construction.
Adam Pass, Adam Pass Photography
This photograph was made in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Brooklyn, NY, on a project to renovate Building 128 into a Green Manufacturing Center. The project, being managed by Plaza Construction Corp, was in the demolition phase for this image. The project super keeps an eye on foundation repair work.
Saul Metnick, Shadow Imaging
This photograph was made in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Brooklyn, NY, on a project to renovate Building 128 into a Green Manufacturing Center. The project, being managed by Plaza Construction Corp, was in the demolition phase for this image.
Saul Metnick, Shadow Imaging
In this image a welder makes some repairs to a steel beam being used as a customized demolition tool. This photograph was made in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Brooklyn, NY, on a project to renovate Building 128 into a Green Manufacturing Center. The project, being managed by Plaza Construction Corp, was in the demolition phase for this image.
Saul Metnick, Shadow Imaging
As the design manager on the Hastings Bridge project and a local resident of Minnesota, the milestone of the bridge move-in and lift represented the culmination of more than two years of teamwork and dedication. The photo is an attempt to capture the team�s achievements in a way that honors the herculean efforts of the lucky few standing proudly by, just out of frame.
Vincent Gastoni, principal project manager, Parsons Corporation
This is a Cat 345 with a Concrete processor dropping the concrete debris into a barge on the canal 90 feet under the Cline Avenue bridge in East Chicago Indiana. The Photographer was able to get the shot from the shore along the canal.
John J. Watkins, director of photography, The Times of Northwest Indiana
Night view of the main concrete batch plants. under construction period
Dogus Insaat
Drilling operations.
Bill Hagstotz, industrial photographer, Construction Images.com
Pipe Cutting during overnight bridge project. This was taken on the FDR while it was closed to traffic. The photographer is documenting this historical removal and installation of the footbridge on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
Teresa Kruszewski, 51art
NOVA Group, Inc. / Underground Construction Company, Inc.; A Joint Venture operator team member moves soils during construction of Fuel Storage Facility Construction Project at Point Loma, California; USA.
Thiel Harryman, engineer, Underground Construction Company
Workers were anxiously waiting for the trolley on the high line in preparation for installing the main cable strands on the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge project. The workers seem to gradually disappear from the first one to the fourth one in the fog.
Martin Chandrawinata, PE, construction engineer, The Hanna Group
A concrete worker's face shows a hard night's work at the Southwest Carpenters' Union training facility under construction in Buena Park, CA.
Trevor Clancy, Marble Street Studio, Inc.
Carpenters from ISEC hanging artwork in one of the elevator lobbies for the Palomar Medical Center, just at the end of the construction of the new Hospital. I was the superintendent for the project and enjoyed catching people at work in pictures.
David Cox, superintendent, DPR Construction
Construction workers are busy installing exterior finishes at the fa�ade at the New Terminal C at John Wayne Airport.
Said Hilmy, president, IDS Group, Inc.
This image was taken while tagging along with my uncle to a few of his job sites... I saw this man working so hard in the blazing heat stopping to take a breath and time stood still for that one moment.
Jennifer Hockenberry, Photography By Jennifer Marie
Lunda Construction crew member Jim Brink's hands.
Peder Thompson
Mass Rapid Transit Downtown Line 2 Contract 919 Botanic Gardens and Stevens Stations and 6.6 m Diameter Twin Tunnels, Singapore. Two Herrenknecht earth pressure tunnel boring machines were deployed to bore the 2 km twin bored tunnels. Submitted by Sembawang Engineers and Constructors Pte. Ltd.
Kraig Carlstrom, Kraig Carlstrom Photography Pty Ltd
Directing the pile driving at Mission Bay, San Francisco Nibbi Brothers General Contractors
Henrik Kam, Henrik Kam Photography Inc.
This is a photo of the Music City Center (Convention Center) construction in Nashville Tennessee. The crawler crane near the middle of the photo, Amquip's 300-ton Liebherr crawler crane was the FIRST crane at Ground Zero in Manhattan, Sept. 13, 2001.
Bruce Cain, Elevated Lens Photography
This is a photo of the Music City Center (Convention Center) construction in Nashville Tennessee. It shows a crew installing metal deck panels on the roof.
Bruce Cain, Elevated Lens Photography
Workers with Kovach Building Enclosures install Kovabond to the exterior of the guitar shaped roof on Music City Center in Nashville. This is one of the many layers that make up the skin on the 6 Acre project
Aerial Innovations of TN, Inc
Nail rolls stacked for use at the construction site of the Native American Cultural Center at Oregon State University campus.
Brizz Meddings, QAQC /Risk Management, Andersen Construction
Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group (NCIG) Berth K10, in New South Wales, Australia.
Garry Owens, Raygun Photography
This image shows the silhouette of the structural fabrication of a storage silo at a cement plant that is under construction by L&T.
V.S. Natana Velu, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Chennai, India
An action shot taken in front of several parked 747's at Paine Field in Everett, Wash.
Will Austin, Will Austin Photography
Segmental post tensioning shot during inspection of the work. Samuelson is working in the Metropolitan Washington Airport's Authority's project management team.
Chuck Samuelson, Special Inspections Manager, Jacobs
A 50 year old heavy triple webbed and double flanged hot riveted 20- foot long 4-foot tall steel beam can't be cut by a modern shear. Instead an oxy/propane 4500 degree cutters torch does the job. About an hour after sunset darkness falls early. A pitch black night sky is the perfect background for the shower of sparks that hang and flutter in the cold night air. A tripod mounted exposure of a 3-4 seconds, lens wide open, with an adjusted white balance captures this amazing display.
Stephen SetteDucati, director of marketing and media, MCM Management Corp.
An operator team member moves soils during construction of Fuel Storage Facility Construction Project at Point Loma, California; USA.
Thiel Harryman, engineer, Underground Construction Company
After towering cranes lifted the massive girders above SR 520, the final adjustments were made by hand.
Brian Dobbins, construction manager, Washington State Dept. of Transportation
Encircled by the rebar for a chamber- wall section, a Panama Canal expansion worker mans the end hose of a concrete pump to ensure proper placing of the structural-concrete mix that is shaping the new Post-Panamax canal. Though full crews are assigned to each pouring, sometimes the lack of space temporarily turns the activity into a one-man operation.
Edward Ortiz, Panama Canal Authority
A subcontractor partner assembles internal tank components for Fuel Storage Facility Construction Project at Point Loma, California; USA.
Thiel Harryman, engineer, Underground Construction Company
A Joint Venture team member during construction of Fuel Storage Facility Construction Project at Point Loma, California; USA.
Thiel Harryman, engineer, Underground Construction Company
This photo shows Cantilever 2nd lifts Strand Jacking-T5 at The Gate District Project located in Al-Reem Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Baha Dahleh, projects manager - supervision dept., Khatib & Alami
This is my almost-three-year-old son, watching the builders build a house across the street from us. He has a great passion for all things construction. When he looked out the window and saw a construction worker start up the bulldozer, he instantly ran outside in only his socks, grabbed his sunglasses and a chair from the garage, and sat down for a front-row seat to the action. He stayed there, content and mesmerized by the magic of construction, for quite some time.
Lindsey Servino, mom, The Servino Family
Power Engineering crew prepping the piles under Pier 15 for reinforcement. More than 1,000 dilapidated pilings were repaired or replaced. Nibbi Brothers General Contractors is the general contractor on this $145.9 million project in San Francisco.
Amy Snyder, senior photographer, The Exploratorium
As an Architect I have always been interested in buildings and structures. This Photo show the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge and the ramps that feed it. It also shows the maintenance of the structure.
Alan Gaynor, Alan Gaynor + Co
I was on the side span south side catwalk of the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge project when the ironworkers and crane operator were positioning the main cable compacting apparatus around the 137 strands, each consisting of 127 wires, to begin the compacting process. This photo shows Union Ironworker Jake Meche guide the side span main cable compactor into place.
Joseph Blum, People and Work Photography
I was on the top of the tower of the self-anchored suspension section of the new east crossing of the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge project when the ironworkers were making an adjustment to their suspension rope battery apparatus used to position the suspender ropes onto their cable bands when Union Ironworker Rene Esquivel atop a suspender rope battery on main cable adjusts chain fall on the high line.
Joseph Blum, People and Work Photography
Welder working in the construction of the Repsol headquarters in Madrid, Spain.
Angel Fern�ndez Rinc�n
An ironworker works on 2nd and 3rd floor framing on the High Line's HQ building.
Timothy Schenck, Timothy Schenck Photography
While visiting the World Trade Center Memorial, a view of the construction was captured through this photograph. The dramatic enhancements show the depth and dramatic feel of being in that area and thinking of our country on that memorable day of September 11, 2001. It embraces the idea of hope that we, as the American people, have when we remember where we were and how far we've come.
Chelsea Pierce, Mississippi State University, architecture student
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As one of the five photo judges for this year's photo contest I have to say thanks to everyone who submitted. By "have to" I mean really want to. Aside from a few strange submissions, all of the photos were worthy of serious consideration and it took the judges several hours, in a small, dark room, debating amongst ourselves, before we emerged with the winners.
And even so, we still had a long list of first runners-up that we just didn't feel like tossing aside without sharing, so, we've brought them to you here. Take a look at the slideshow and be prepared for another visually astounding tour of construciton sites around the world. The images appear in random order.
