Articles by Scott Judy

This year's Best Projects competition reached a broader geographic region than ever before as ENR Southeast expanded its “call for entries” to Alabama, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., along with the magazine's core coverage area of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.

Just 19 months after EE&K first started design work, the Stoddert Elementary School and Community Center in Washington, D.C., reopened.

Innovative engineering restored life to a landmark in the “Nation's Oldest City,” St. Augustine, Fla.

A new children's hospital in Hollywood, Fla., utilizes the “power of play” as a design motif, a theme inspired, in part, by the facility's athletic namesake, Joe DiMaggio.But the construction of the four-story, 180,000-sq-ft health-care facility certainly wasn't child's play.

Dentistry school projects have become a small trend in the Southeast, but contractors have yet to build up the expertise these facilities demand.

A major challenge for Beck was the pervasive use of non-standard materials. The new home of Salvador Dali's artwork is a 66,400-sq-ft facility that is as flamboyant as the Spanish artist himself.

The $1.5-billion project earned LEED Gold certification. NGA Campus East is the consolidated eastern headquarters of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a unit of the Dept. of Defense that provides geospatial intelligence, such as satellite imagery, for national security objectives.

Historic Piedmont Park, a 116-year-old Atlanta landmark, saw its size grow by 53 acres, or about 40%, with the North Woods Expansion project.

ENR's Top 20 Under 40 competition will identify some of the design and construction industry's leaders of tomorrow. Winners will be highlighted in ENR's regional editions. Related Links: ENR California Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR Midwest Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR Mountain States Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR New York Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR Southeast Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR Southwest Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR Texas & Louisiana Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form Who are the design and construction leaders of tomorrow? That’s the question

The value of new Florida construction contracts eked out a 1% gain in September, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, with new projects totaling roughly $1.7 billion. Related Links: Georgia's September Contracts Improve by 11% Infrastructure Work Boosts N.C. Contracts to 58% Gain in Sept. S.C. Contracts Record Solid 35% Gain in September For the month, the nonresidential category continued its downward trend, registering a 29% decline compared to the same period of a year ago, with $419.3 million in new contracts. Residential contracts outpaced last September’s total by 27%, however, with an estimated $817.5 million in new projects. The nonbuilding sector,