Kenneth "Kim" Hawkins was the third family member to run the contractor, which ranks at No. 273 on ENR's current Top 400 Contractor list.

For the team executing the $450-milllion Hubbard Center addition at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, it was all about connections—from innovative interior and exterior lighting design linking facilities and users, to the state's first use of a more collaborative team delivery approach that saved $50 million.

Rich data from Dodge Data & Analytics for the Omaha area.

The Best Projects and award of merit honorees were chosen from 64 submittals.

The $50-million Carson Group headquarters features a six-story office structure joined to a four-story tower by an amenity hub. Both buildings use electrochromic envelopes to reduce energy loads and emissions.

The first project built under an integrated project delivery method in Nebraska and one of the largest IPD projects in the U.S., the owner, architect and the construction manager worked collaboratively on the Hubbard Center through design and preconstruction to provide real-time estimating that saved $50 million and reduced the schedule by 40 days.

A key element convincing Mutual of Omaha to build its new headquarters in Omaha is a planned streetcar line for the city's downtown. 

The US Dept. of Veterans Affairs facility is the first agency project to include private money for construction while also using funding from available VA appropriations.

Dodge data on projected 2022 construction starts in Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Construction spending expected to increase 10% in 2019 as non- building activity surges