A panel of industry judges selected 32 winning projects from 20 different countries around the globe from a record number of entries for ENR’s 2019 Global Best Projects Awards.

Nepal’s devastating April 2015 earthquake and its many aftershocks killed nearly 9,000 people and destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes. Immediately after the quake, volunteer engineers with nonprofit Miyamoto Relief quickly mobilized.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s medical megaproject, the Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, opened for business in the first quarter of 2019.

A sewer line project in Doha, Qatar, completed in April on time and within budget, is the first phase of the public works authority’s Doha South Sewage Infrastructure Project.

Over the course of three-and-a-half years of construction, the project team building the 142,400-sq-ft, three-story Dow Water and Process Solutions Laboratory logged more than 4.7 million worker hours without a lost-time incident or accident of any kind.

The rehabilitation of and new additions to the West Block—part of the Canadian Parliament completed in 1865—required restoration of exterior load-bearing stone and sculptural elements, complete removal and replacement of building mechanical systems and the replacement of a copper roof. 

Crews tunneled through the foot of the Himalayas for the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project. Despite an 8.1- magnitude earthquake, border struggles between Nepal and India, an oil crisis, catastrophic floods, strikes and riots, the international team managed to complete the 5-meter-dia tunnel seven months ahead of schedule.

The innovative upgrade of the Wusong wastewater treatment plant to meet new standards allowed it to avoid an expensive move outside the city.

This 114-km expressway connects Touba, Senegal’s second largest city, with the existing highway network in Thiès, on the perimeter of Dakar, the country’s dominant urban area.

The expansion of Tocumen International Airport added a 116,000-sq-meter terminal and 20 gates, along with infrastructure upgrades to increase capacity at what is now Central America’s busiest airport.