Three standout projects are vying for the title of ENR Southeast 2023 Project of the Year.

The 2023 Oscar awards featured a Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor who reinvented themselves and came back for a second act. The tunnel-boring machine Angeli is the LA performer that did much the same, but entirely underground.

Cornell University had high expectations for the team on a five-building, 776,000-sq-ft student housing complex and dining hall project completed this year on its Ithaca, N.Y., campus.

To keep up with global shipping standards and stay competitive, the Massachusetts Port Authority launched the Conley Terminal modernization program in 2014. As part of the $850-million effort by the agency, known also as Massport, the $215-million New Berth 10 project was designed and constructed to provide 1,300 linear ft of new space that can accommodate larger container ships—some up to 22 shipping containers wide.

The Lincoln Park Zoo’s Pepper Wildlife Center lets visitors and lions get a little closer while also preserving the historic character of a Chicago landmark.

For design-builders HNTB Corp. and Hensel Phelps to successfully deliver Tampa International Airport’s $326-million Blue Express Curbsides project—a first-of-its-kind facility for the U.S.—engineers and contractors would need to weave their work over, under, through and around buildings and other infrastructure comprising the tight, jam-packed jobsite located at TIA’s southern front door.

Team takes on unfamiliar voided-slab deck system to help shrink the carbon footprint of a research building’s concrete structure.

Structural concerns, hazardous materials abatement and historic preservation guidelines challenged the project team on this renovation.

A complex renovation transformed the World Trade Center tower in New Orleans into a Four Seasons Hotel and private residences, ENR Texas & Louisiana's 2022 Project of the Year.

Technology and modeling solutions help bring striking design elements to life at the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, which was named the Texas & Louisiana Project of the Year.