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As the Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa., looked ahead to hosting the 2016 U.S. Open, congestion on the century-old Hulton Bridge near Pittsburgh was so bad that the daily traffic count reached nearly 26,000 vehicles.

The Interstate-95 Deck Rehabilitation and Joint Modification Project in Baltimore was the nation’s largest latex modified concrete overlay rehabilitation project awarded as a single contract, according to contractor Wagman Heavy Civil.

During the peak of construction on the Inova Hospital, the project’s original electrical subcontractor suddenly defaulted and went out of business.

This $176.4-million project, completed in a 55-month period, doubled the office-space capacity at a Rockville, Md., federal office building to accommodate 4,000 employees.

The project team made significant structural modifications to increase capacity and provide a more open, practical floor plan and work areas.

Decades after it was built in the 1930s, the District of Columbia’s Roosevelt High School had fallen into decay.

The project team was handed a simple but daunting task: Build one of the greenest office towers in the world for PNC’s corporate headquarters.

The project team worked under the gun as the primary tenant threatened to walk if the building wasn’t delivered on time.

Replacing the former National Public Radio headquarters in just 27 months, the 482,000-sq-ft structure occupies an entire city block.