For 15 years now, ENR Southeast’s annual Best Projects contest has been recognizing construction and design excellence performed on contracts from across the region. Each year, the contest uncovers outstanding efforts by national, regional and local contractors and design firms, with many of the projects being relatively unknown, but proving to be hidden gems.
The commitment to serve as a Best Projects judge is no easy task; it requires many hours to review and assess the dozens of entries that we assign each member of our panel. Finding out about these lower-profile projects—as well as the better-known contracts—always proves intriguing and even a little exciting for our judges, as they always come away impressed by the projects they’ve just learned about.