For 20 years now, ENR Southeast’s annual Best Projects competition has recognized the region’s best examples of outstanding construction and design, thereby showcasing the myriad components that go into building a great project. Each year, the group of award winners collectively represents not only the construction industry’s current state of the art but also celebrates the aspirations and lofty, real-world achievements of its participants.

It’s fitting, then, in this year of a pandemic, that this current class of Best Projects award winners stands tall, seemingly reminding us of the greatness that the construction industry can—and often does—achieve, even as contractors and designers endure the current market slowdown.