Judging the safety projects, with a special emphasis on safety programs, cultures and results, were Ryan Burns, director of field operations with Kovach, and Matt Gilliland, safety director at CHASSE Building Team. Our Southwest sustainability judge was Chris Kelly, design director at Architekton.

In addition to the category winners, judges chose by consensus one project that stood out among the other winners. This year’s Project of the Year for ENR Southwest is the Mountain Line Downtown Connection Center in Flagstaff, Ariz.

Arizona State University’s Wilson Hall, located in Tempe, Ariz., was named a Southwest Project of the Year Finalist. Submitted by Holder Construction, the project also received a Best Project award in the higher education and research category.
Photo courtesy Jason Roehner

Two Project of the Year finalists were also honored: Arizona State University’s Wilson Hall, located in Tempe, Ariz., and Fab 52, nicknamed Project Eagle, located in Chandler, Ariz. Fab 52 is also this year’s Excellence in Safety award winner.

You can read more about these projects, and all the winners, in the following pages.

All winning teams, as well as the Southwest firms of the year and Legacy Award winner, will be celebrated at a luncheon program Nov. 13 at the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel.

The top project in each category will automatically move on to the ENR national competition, and those winners will be announced at the Best of the Best awards brunch in New York City on March 26.

Congratulations to all the winning project teams!