Innovation is the thread that connects ENR Southeast’s 2022 Regional Best Projects award winners, whether in solving specific problems with novel solutions, in building facilities not seen anywhere else or in navigating the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As much as COVID-19 has led more firms to put a focus on digital innovation, ENR Top 500 design firms are also finding themselves having deeper discussions with clients about long-term design packages that help cut carbon emissions, execute ESG goals and meet diversity, equity and inclusion markers for stakeholders.
Latest global predictions suggest that spending on new infrastructure projects has now overtaken spending on property construction and will continue to lead for the next decade.
This 10-story, mixed-use high-rise built on the site of the old Spinney & Caldwell Shoe Factory was completed at budget, but it fell behind schedule amid COVID-19.
The primary goal of this $17-million project was to construct and commission two large dry rooms in 15 weeks as part of an effort to make more than 2 million COVID-19 test kits per week.
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.