Articles Tagged with ''Best of the Best Projects''

Denny Substation doesn’t look like what you’d expect from a structure of its kind. That’s by design, due to its setting within South Lake Union, a growing area of Seattle.

As the largest public-private partnership delivered in a National Park, the $109-million expansion and renovation of the Gateway Arch Museum had to meet stringent rules on how the landscape could be altered, what materials could be used and how much the existing museum could be changed.

The Hop is the first modern embedded-track streetcar system in Milwaukee. 

Fire Station No. 14 in Salt Lake City was designed to be one of the first net-zero-energy fire stations in the country.

Designing and building one of the largest U.S. net-zero-energy commercial towers on a dense downtown campus was an exercise in “detailed coordination and innovative thinking,” a best projects judge pointed out.

The 41st Street Pedestrian Arch Bridge project team overcame the daunting task of spanning 1,470 ft over active rail lines, catenary wires and all eight lanes of Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive.

Critical highway repairs completed two years ahead of schedule. A power plant project that’s also a park. A veterans’ hospital built to function even when flooded. Those are a few examples of the above-and-beyond design and construction efforts honored by ENR’s annual Best of the Best Projects awards.

Mary Myers doesn’t have an average commute to work, but it’s better than it used to be.

From dredging and capping to structural carpentry and finish masonry, reconstructing the oldest active marine railway in the country required a diverse skillset.