Building on a tight site for the Elliot Hospital Emergency Department Expansion while keeping the ED operational required careful team planning and nimbleness, especially when Covid brought the sudden, unexpected need for to redesign the Manchester, N.H. hospital project.
In spite of 2020 challenges that included shuttering non-essential construction sites, the construction sector in New York and New Jersey completed scores of noteworthy projects—a number of which achieved recognition as ENR New York 2021 Best Projects.
This year’s Best Projects contest covered work completed between May 1, 2020, to May 31, 2021. In other words, the period of time that saw the COVID-19 pandemic at its most virulent and impactful to broad sections of the U.S. economy, including the construction industry.
ENR California assembled a group of judges with varying specialties and expertise in the construction industry to review, score and determine the winners of ENR's annual Regional Best projects competition.