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Related Links: View the 2013 Best of the Best Projects Winners ENR Excellence in Safety Award: St. Louis Library Industry professionals from all across the U.S. donated their time and expertise to help ENR identify and honor the most outstanding construction efforts completed in the U.S. and Puerto Rico between July 2012 and June 2013. Nearly 800 project teams submitted their best work to ENR's regional "Best Projects" competitions. For each of the ten regions, our editors assembled an independent panel of industry judges to home in on the winners in 20 categories. The winners of the regional contests moved

During a 2010 preconstruction meeting with the owner-developer of Seattle's super-sustainable Bullitt Center, the 50,000-sq-ft project's consulting engineer had a minor meltdown over electric-plug loads—the silent killer of green-building power conservation.

CB&I and Babcock & Wilcox teamed to construct the 620-MW John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant, with work spanning from April 2007 to December 2012.

The $2.5-million Phyllis J. Tilley Memorial Pedestrian Bridge located in Fort Worth is the first steel-arch and stress-ribbon bridge in North America.

The $95-million GE Manufacturing Solutions locomotive assembly facility was completed in December 2012, with work led by contractor KBD Group.

The Circuit of the Americas is the first Grand Prix facility in the U.S. built exclusively for Formula One racing. The circuit was built around a state-of-the-art 3.4-mile track.

The LPV-3.2 West Return Floodwall is a key piece of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' $14-billion mission to build the Greater New Orleans Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System.

Out of more than 80 entries submitted for this year's ENR Texas & Louisiana Best Projects competition, an independent panel of judges named 27 winners, all of them featured online and in the December 16 print issue.

The $416-million President George Bush Turnpike - Western Extension is the North Texas Tollway Authority's first design-build project.

While the new Sub-Zero and Wolf showroom in Uptown Dallas is a state-of-the-art tour de force, the core of the structure is anchored in tradition.