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High winds and a tight schedule made replacement of two tower elevator systems and upgrades to locks, gates, counterweights and mechanical components on the nearly 90-year-old Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge no easy feat.

Working on any historic building requires time and patience, says Shawn Basler, co-CEO and executive director of Perkins Eastman. Case in point: It took 11 years to turn a 120-year-old McKim, Mead & White-designed former bank into the Fifth Avenue Hotel.

The vertical expansion to the Colorado Convention Center added 200,000 sq ft to the 2.2 million sq-ft center built in the early 1990s.

Planning and constructing a 128-ft-tall, 139-ft-long, 62-ft-wide, 2,800-ton cracking furnace, then transporting it a mile before carefully connecting it was a puzzle that took some out-of-the-box thinking and next-level coordination.

Building over a D.C. Metro tunnel challenged the Bard High School Early College project team, who transformed a former elementary school into an institution dedicated to increasing higher education access for low-income and underrepresented communities by providing a free college program.

Construction of the 25,000-sq-ft Aerie restaurant at the top of Colorado’s Copper Mountain required an unconventional approach to building at 11,207 ft.

To successfully deliver the Southeast Live Well Center in San Diego, the design-build team deeply involved community members on every detail.

The 20 projects recognized here are the result of a nearly yearlong effort by ENR editors and roughly 100 construction industry members who judged contest entries at various stages.

Wieland, a supplier of copper and copper alloys, has hired Graycor and Helmkamp Construction as the design-build contractor on a $500-million expansion of its East Alton, Ill., manufacturing facility.

A Spanish consortium of Sacyr, Acciona and Cinta, the toll road subsidiary of Ferrovial, lead the project.