Commonwealth Rebar, Charlotte, N.C.

Photographer: Bob Rowland
Submitted by: Alexis James, Choate Construction

While conducting a quality control inspection for an office building project, Rowland quickly snapped a photo using his iPhone—no flash, no staging. In doing so, he transformed ordinary column rebar, emerging from a footing, into art. For Rowland, looking down toward the footing offered “a visually stunning moment in what is often considered a gritty, unpolished line of work.” The senior superintendent, who routinely takes progress photos on his jobs, particularly enjoys night shots featuring tower cranes and concrete operations. Though his passion is construction, not photography, over the years Rowland has compiled a collection of his images, saved in an album.

Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project, Waterloo Station

Photographer: Morris McLennan
Submitted by: Leanna Fuller, John Holland Group

The City & Southwest line will run from Sydney’s North Shore, under Sydney Harbor, through the central business district and beyond, transforming the way rail commuters get around Australia’s most populous city with a new station that will revitalize the Waterloo district. Cath Bowen, Rusty Goat Media photography director, says she liked McLennan’s shot of silhouetted workers because it was essentially two photographs in one, telling a story of world-class construction in Australia’s oldest city.

Glass Packaging Factory, Eskişehir, Turkey

Photographer and Submitter: Onur Tulu

Onur Tulu, a quality assurance and control manager with TAV Construction, was conducting an early morning check of a concrete pour at the Şişecam factory when he snapped this image using his phone. “I witnessed the sunrise while standing on the slab and at that moment, the laborer’s work, rising steam and the sunrise combined to create a beautiful and radiant backlight,” he says. “I wanted to convey that, beneath all the challenging tasks we undertake lies the hope encapsulated in the light of tomorrow’s sunrise.” Tulu says the factory is on a 30,000-sq-m site encompassing furnace and production buildings, and is one of the most important glassmaking sites in Turkey.

Undisclosed Project, Northern Utah

Photographer and Submitter: Ashley Anne Scott

Hired by Forgen, a Colorado-based geotechnical and civil construction firm, to document a project near Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Scott was thrilled when the team took her out to shoot the site earlier than planned. “I was excited to be heading to the site with the stars still twinkling above us in the inky dark sky,” she says. “The [excavator] operator offered to light everything up for me and laughed at my haste in trying to get everything set up before the light changed.” Shooting in quickly changing low light, Scott’s Nikon Z5 with a wide-angle lens helped her capture the Komatsu PC1250 excavator. She says she often works around this “massive” machine but rarely sees it parked. “There was a huge contrast in arriving early in the stillness of the early twilight and catching a rare moment where there was quiet,” she says. “This quiet stillness and peacefulness come through in this image.”

Highway 21, Jefferson County, MO.

Photographer: Matthew McFarland
Submitted by: Allison Vollmar, Clayco

This photo was taken during work at one of Concrete Strategies’ bridge restoration projects on Highway 21 in Jefferson County, Mo. The firm is working on 17 bridges along the route. “The goal of this image was to show the uniqueness of the concrete overlay of a rehab of a highway,” says McFarland. “The pour of the concrete needs to happen at night due to the chemistry of the concrete. As a photographer, I am trying to tell a story giving the viewer as much information as possible.”

U.S. Route 58 Widening, Patrick County, Va.

Photographer and Submitter: Hunter Collins

It had rained recently at the site of the $300-million expansion of U.S. Route 58 in western Virginia, so there was not much activity early on a February morning. Branch Group, Roanoke, Va., is self-performing civil work on this phase of the multi-decade Virginia Dept. of Transportation project, and firm social media specialist Hunter Collins had driven to the site to test a new DJI Mavic 3 drone. “We got there early and it was quiet, the crews were doing some training, but there was this one piece of equipment on the hill doing some work,” he recalls. Collins launched the drone over a lone bulldozer doing cleanup on a waste pile. “I wanted to get a shot while the light was low enough you could still see headlights,” he says. “This project is huge and normally has a million parts moving, but this was a quiet moment.”

Northeast Boundary Tunnel, Washington, D.C.

Photographer and Submitter: Matt Keller

Bolstering Washington, D.C.’s sewer system, the Northeast Boundary Tunnel will extend 27,000 ft through the nation’s capital at depths up to 180 ft, mitigating flooding and adding much-needed capacity. On a trip to the site to film video interviews, Keller, Lane Construction Corp. communications manager, had some spare time to look around the under-construction tunnel. He found a rare spot of reflective still water and snapped the shot on his Sony A7R IV with no lights or tripod. The unusual double curve of the tunnel as it follows the path of a river above made the frame especially interesting for Keller, who visits every Lane project each year. “It snakes both directions,” he says. “Between that and catching the reflection, I had to take the shot.”

Portal North Bridge, Kearny, N.J.

Photographer: Brian Arthur
Submitted by: Submitted by Meagan Smyth Viggiano, Skanska USA Civil Northeast Inc.

As a field engineer II for Skanska Traylor Joint Venture on this Amtrak bridge project, Arthur takes lots of construction photos to record progress and share with the team. He has also done some professional photography and videography on the side, including as an NFL Media photographer/videographer for the Buffalo Bills’ drumline, The Stampede. But for this frame of workers setting a crossbeam/K-brace for the overhead catenary system on the project’s west tie-in, Arthur just used an iPhone 14 Pro with Night Mode. “Most of my construction photos are taken with what’s in my pocket and available,” he says.

Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York City

Photographer: Jobsite Camera
Submitted by: Kevin McGarr, EarthCam

EarthCam continuously livestreams the Statue of Liberty from multiple angles for the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. This particular camera was installed by EarthCam founder and CEO Brian Cury in 2011 for the statue’s 125th anniversary, and upgraded 10 years later. Mounted on the torch, the camera records progress on a U.S. National Park Service project repairing the historic fort that serves as the statue’s foundation. For this particular frame, it also captured the light of an autumn sunrise glistening across the water of New York Harbor that brightened the statue’s copper patina from a view that has otherwise been closed to the public since 1916.

Transmission Line Rebuild, Fairfield, Texas

Photographer and Submitter: Robb Williamson

Journeyman line worker Kevin Gurrusquieta crosses glass insulators more than 100 ft above ground while attaching spacer-dampers along newly installed transmission towers and their conductor lines. The new construction was required to replace 14 miles of towers that fell to the ground as a result of extreme wind and tornado damage. Williamson donned a harness and worked with a crane operator using hand signals to boom up a basket to be level with the worker on the wires. “I used a digital mirrorless camera—a Leica SL2 with an adapted 24mm wide angle tilt-shift lens and circular polarizing filter handheld to capture the activity,” he says. “This vantage point allows viewers to see the extensive road of mats used for the equipment access during wet conditions.”

The Bays Station, Sydney Metro West Rail, Sydney

Photographer: Justin Sanson
Submitted by: Maryanne Dalziel, Acciona Ferrovial Joint Venture

Sanson, a photographer at Sydney-based studio Rusty Goat Media, says he used the full length of his camera’s 70-200mm lens to crop out “distracting elements” and capture this shot of workers preparing a box wall for shotcreting at The Bays station, one of nine under construction on the 24-km Sydney Metro West rail line set to link western suburbs for the first time to the downtown of Australia’s largest city, as part of its major transit expansion. “The shot drew my attention because of the anchor bolts creating the lines diagonally across the station box wall and the rise of the elevated work platform from the other angle,” he says, noting that access to a work platform for a closer vantage “required negotiation” with project officials. The line, to finish by 2032, is a catalyst for the long-awaited renewal of the area around the station, he says.

I-95 Bridge Demolition and Replacement, Westport, Conn.

Photographer and Submitter: Daniel Umbro

There’s a hard deadline for a weekend bridge replacement on a major highway like Interstate 95, with countless motorists due to drive on it Monday morning. Yonkers Contracting Co. marketing proposal coordinator Umbro got to watch the intricate ballet of accelerated bridge construction in the dead of night from his DJI Mini 2 drone. “It was a surreal thing to see a roadway traveled by thousands daily being demolished,” he recalls. As crews systematically took down the old northbound span of I-95, a new and ready-to-go span, seen at the top of the photo, waits to be slid in. The work that weekend ultimately finished several hours early, and Umbro could see the benefits of teamwork. “That was something I took away from this: it was a very complex project but Yonkers Contracting has a lot of people who are very good at their jobs.”

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland

Photographer: Cary Tijerina
Submitted by: Alena Behrmann Nolan, Vector Foiltec Holding GmbH

Vector Foiltec after sales supervisor Tijerina took this photo during maintenance of the ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) roof over the orangutan habitat at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Although his department was not involved in installation of the fluorine-based plastic dome, “I know that it required a clever combination of rope access and work platform netting,” he explains. “We used a small drone to capture the image. The climber, Grayson Kemp, is aid-climbing a set of anchors that were designed for this purpose.” Tijerina adds: “After he set ropes at the top, I joined him at the summit.”

Hetch Hetchy-1007 Transmission 7/8 Upgrades Project, Oakdale to Modesto, Calif.

Photographer and Submitter: Robin Scheswohl

Documenting a 13-mile-long project to raise 37 transmission towers and upgrade tower foundations last August, Scheswohl, head photographer for the San Francisco Utilities Commission, spent a couple of hours last August documenting this crew as its members worked to raise tower no. 559 by 9 ft. While at the site, she got the idea to capture a light effect between two workers. “I wanted to take a backlit photo of the crew on the tower and create a sunburst effect through the workers,” Scheswohl says. “I set my aperture and waited for the workers and the sun to get in just the right position for a dynamic photo.” The moment proved fleeting, lasting just long enough for her to capture two images of the golden sunburst above.

Frisco Public Library, Frisco, Texas

Photographer: Jobsite Camera
Submitted by: Kevin McGarr, EarthCam

ENR is used to crediting one photographer for a submited photo. However, Kevin McGarr, EarthCam social media coordinator, says the company’s jobsite camera photos are really a collaborative effort. It had two cameras documenting this adaptive reuse project led by construction manager-at-risk Byrne Construction Services, which transformed a former rocket plant into a 158,000-sq-ft public library. Lana Moskalyova, EarthCam vice president of creative services, grabbed this still from the video feed. But without the tech who visited the site and installed the camera, there would be no video feed from which to source the photo. Also, without the crew from Artisan Industry LLC that created and installed “Rexy,” the library’s 42-ft-long replica dinosaur skeleton, there would be no attention-drawing subject centered in the composition to score a two-page magazine spread.

Felton Grove High School, Apex, N.C.

Photographer and Submitter: Andrew Cox

Cox was flying a DJI Mini II topographic drone to produce updated earthwork progress reports for the Faulconer Construction team when he noticed a subcontractor performing lime stabilization on the greenfield site of the Felton Grove High School project. “The juxtaposition of the deep-red North Carolina clay with the perfectly white lime jumped out at me when I was monitoring the … drone progress, so I had to capture it,” he says. Once the flight was complete, Cox says he hovered the drone nearly over the top of the operation but far enough away so it was not directly above any personnel or equipment. Cox is the business development and marketing manager for Faulconer, and he has been shooting drone footage since 2020.

Richmond Federal Channel Project, San Francisco Bay

Photographer and Submitter: Bill King

In the pre-dawn darkness one winter morning, Bill King was standing onshore as Manson Construction’s derrick barge NJORD was working to excavate material from the Richmond Harbor channel in San Francisco Bay. The marine surveyor saw the glow of the vessel’s operating lights and launched his DJI Mini 2 drone to get the photo. “It was very dark and creepy out just before the sunrise,” he says. “The rig looked cool because it was dark but the rig and the area around it were just lit up by its lights.” It’s a dramatic photo of Manson’s workhorse dredge. The NJORD began its career with the U.S. Navy in 1942. It was acquired by Manson from government surplus in 1997 and has been operating up and down the West Coast since.

Biosolids Digester Facilities Project, San Francisco

Photographer and Submitter: Robin Scheswohl

Last June, head photographer for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, visited the massive Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant Biosolids Digester Facilities Project, Facility 610 to document the first digester core wall pour for Digester No. 5. She focused on the human element. “I wanted the focus to be more on the individual workers without losing the enormity of the digester wall,” Scheswohl says. She estimates spending about 20 minutes photographing the digester wall shown here until the workers and construction activity came together just so, with the one worker in red looking down at the activity below. “I liked the composition and the position of everyone. Everything is kind of leading down into where they’re actually pouring,” Scheswohl says. “This one felt like it told the story.”

Darlington Road Bridge Repairs, Havre De Grace, MD.

Photographer and Submitter: Joey Bird

Brawner Builders replaced damaged three-strand metal side railings and a concrete parapet on a bridge carrying MD 161 (Darlington Road) over Deer Creek in northeastern Harford County. To minimize the impact on local traffic, crews opted to close the whole bridge and pour concrete at night. This photo was taken around midnight with a camera drone, says Bird, an IT administrator at Brawner.

Cerritos College Seismic Retrofit, Norwalk, Calif.

Photographer and Submitter: John Satterfield

As a certified welding inspector for Converse Consultants, Satterfield is used to snapping a few pictures while doing his daily tours and reports. On site at the seismic retrofit of a building on the campus of Cerritos College in Southern California, Satterfield saw welders performing full penetration welds on flange connections for a natural gas pipe. Normally he would just take a few process photos on his Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone and move on, but he liked something in the visual composition of how welder Kevin Bridgewater of Vern’s Plumbing was working. “I saw Kevin, a friend of mine, welding and thought it would look kind of cool if I shot it looking up at him. Something about that lighting with the welding arc like that makes for a nice picture.”

Hotel, Omaha, Nebraska.

Photographer and Submitter: Taylor Moore

On a chilly morning in early December 2022, photographer Moore had been on the site of an Omaha hotel project for several hours. He was watching a Ronco Construction crew placing concrete for the post-tension cable deck on the first level of the project. In his images, Moore says he wanted to focus on collaboration. “It’s great to see people work together as a team,” he says. As he watched workers, Moore adds, “I was kind of waiting for the right moment when they were all working together in one large area.” Moore’s photography spans a range of subjects, including nature and architecture, and construction work is one of his favorites. “In shooting nature, there’s a lot of waiting,” he says. “In construction, there’s just constant action when the timing is right.”

San Diego International Airport New T1 Project, San Diego

Photographer and Submitter: Tara Garner

As Garner approached the forest of rebar columns being assembled as part of the new terminal for San Diego International Airport, the picture she wanted to capture was right there waiting for her. “When we came walking up it was literally the first thing I saw,” she says. Garner was documenting the work of the project’s rebar contractor, CMC Rebar, for the Western Steel Council. The shoot gave her a chance to capture a group whose work is often overlooked, she says. “When I document ironworkers it’s typically big iron structural stuff and not as much the rebar guys,” she says. “I come from several generations of ironworkers. I have a lot of appreciation of the hard work they do.”

Mill Creek Drainage Relief Tunnel, Dallas

Photographer: Matt Jackson
Submitted by: Rachel Sackett, Southland Holdings

The Mill Creek Drainage Relief Tunnel under construction by Southland Mole Joint Venture stretches 5 miles and at two different diameters: 37 ft, 9 in. and 32 ft, 6 in. With six different project sites and five lateral connecting tunnels, there’re plenty of photo opportunities for Jackson, a Southland senior project engineer with a background in photography and video production. “There’s just something beautiful about the vanishing point down the tunnel,” he says, adding that the workers assembling this first piece of formwork were “in that right moment where they align with that same vanishing point.”

Beach Reconstruction Dredging, Ocean City, N.J.

Photographer and Submitter: Daniel Mekis

While scouting a location to catch some waves, recreational surfer Mekis—whose day job is as a continuous improvement project manager for Granite Construction—was surprised to find a crew constructing a dredge pipe to help replenish the beach during winter to prepare for the upcoming tourist season. “Due to its operation, a sandbar had formed, which caused the waves to break very well,” Mekis says. “I made my way closer to try to find an interesting composition of the welder working and some of the waves in the background.” A surfer slowly drifted into frame, and Mekis waited for just the right moment. “The surfer caught it and then the wave actually began to barrel right behind where the welder was working. It was amazing!” He points out the contrast in the serendipitous scene between work and play. “I love surfing and construction. I enjoy photographing both and for them to collide in a single image is pretty satisfying.”

Innovation and Design Building Phase 1B Lab conversion, Boston

Photographer and Submitter: Moritz Schmid

Photographer Schmid was walking through the project’s penthouse when he happened upon Local 537 pipefitter James Ahern hard at work. “There was an awesome backdrop of pipes behind him,” he says. The photographer, who is senior project superintendent at Consigli, quickly pulled out his Nikon D750 and captured the action. Photography is both work and a passion for Schmid, who says he has studied long and hard to refine his craft. “I really started to get into digital photography around 15 years ago. I bought a DSLR and assumed [I would immediately] take great photos. Boy was I wrong,” he says.

1510 Webster St., Oakland, Calif.

Photographer: Kevin Meynell
Submitted by: Rochelle Buckner Beckel, Webcor

Taken during work on one of the tallest point-loaded mass-timber building projects in the country, the photo’s color and action stand out to Meynell, as well as the worker’s worn-through steel toe boots. “I love that this is up-close and personal,” he says. The shot happened “pretty quickly,” Meynell says, as the worker set up anchors for the crane to connect and hoist huge mass timber beams to the top of the 19-story mixed-use development. “I wasn’t going to get in the way of site progress. I had to get low, on my knees, with the wide lens I was shooting to try and capture not only the man at work but the awesome backdrop of graffiti that surrounded the site.”

Pernod Ricard Distillery, Marion County, KY.

Photographer: Matthew McFarland
Submitted by: Allison Vollmar, Clayco

McFarland took this photo in August of construction of the Pernod Ricard distillery project in Kentucky. Crews with Clayco and Concrete Strategies set the nearly 91-ft-tall, insulated cast-on-site tilt-up panels with an 880-ton crawler crane. The team says it is a world record for the tallest insulated tilt-up panel ever erected. “This upshot shows the rigging and the sheer scale of this epic panel,” the photographer says.

Van Wyck Expressway Capacity and Access Improvement to JFK Airport - Contract 2, Queens, N.Y.

Photographer and Submitter: Armand Quiroz

Quiroz took this shot during the weekend of April 21, 2023. “It was a super weekend for super structures,” he says. “This is a unique project where rail, highways and bridges all intersect, in the middle of one of the most heavily trafficked areas in the U.S.” Crews from the Halmar team replaced three railroad spans with two new ones using self-propelled modular transporters. Traffic and trains remained active throughout construction. “I was positioned among the crowd watching the bridges being pulled out,” Quiroz says. “I was spending about 13-16 hours on the site. Every minute it changes, so I would say a lot of it is place, time and luck. It’s a waiting game and using your imagination of what it could look like from above.”

Sydney Metro Rail, Sydney

Photographer: Justin Sanson
Submitted by: Maryanne Dalziel, Acciona Ferrovial Joint Venture

Sanson says he shot this photo of a crew preparing rigging to lower the front shield of a tunnel-boring machine being assembled at the Bays station on the Sydney Metro West rail project because he “liked the symmetry of the workers over the TBM … and having the blue sky in the background. Most of the other angles had a really busy backdrop.” He says that access to shoot the work “was a challenge in getting to the opposite side of the box, but we managed to find a safe way.” Delivery of the machine, to be about 7 m in diameter and 1,300 tonnes when fully assembled, along with a twin, is part of the $1.27-billion Central Tunnelling Package awarded in 2021 to the Acciona Ferrovial team. Work, which also includes excavation of five stations, is set to complete in 2025. The estimated $39-billion Sydney Metro is Australia’s biggest public infrastructure project.

New Transmission Line, Corpus Christi, Texas

Photographer and Submitter: Robb Williamson

These four line workers employed by contractor Primoris Services Corp. are attaching sections of a high-voltage transmission line tower, using two cranes and four separate boom trucks. For the photo, “I used a DJI Mavic 3 Pro drone,” says Williamson. “It would be impossible to get this vantage point from the worker’s point of view using a helicopter or airplane. The drone allows me to work from safe distances without creating distractions for the workers and also keeps my feet on the ground more, instead of on a helicopter shooting on the strut without a door.” Williamson has been a professional photographer for 35 years with news organizations and also on the commercial side specializing in aviation, architecture and infrastructure. He joined Primoris in 2023 as director of photography.

Salt Lake City International Airport Redevelopment, Salt Lake City

Photographer and Submitter: Sue Zaybal

As part of a $5.1-billion redevelopment, the Salt Lake City Airport commissioned artist Gordon Huether to create a roadway entrance monument to welcome its visitors. Called The Peaks, the structures are composed of solid and corrugated weathering steel. Photographer Zaybal made sure to capture the final assembly: putting the last peak on The Peaks. “The sky was perfect, but I knew I had to shoot into the sun,” says Zaybal, who is document control manager for Making Projects Work Inc., a consultant on the project. She used an iPhone 12 Pro to “get a really wide angle and average out the light, evening out the shadows while catching the colors.”

Storstrøm Bridge, Denmark

Photographer: James Campbell
Submitted by: Jung Heidi Moeslund Egede, The Danish Road Directorate

This photo was taken during construction of Denmark’s new Storstrøm Bridge, connecting the islands of Masnedø and Falster. Many of the heavy pieces, such as foundations and bridge deck girders, were manufactured in sheds before being brought to the bridge site. The yellow floating crane Hebo Lift-9, pictured, is among the machinery used to get the pieces into place. “The elements are typically heavy, ranging from hundreds of tonnes to several thousand tonnes and there is also some large temporary works,” says Campbell. “I happened to be in the pre-fabrication yard when the hooks were being inspected prior to a heavy lift and the scene caught my eye.”

X Phoenix Phase 2, Phoenix

Photographer: Matthew McFarland
Submitted by: Allison Vollmar, Clayco

McFarland took this shot of construction of a new residential co-living tower for The X Co. in downtown Phoenix before construction halted this year. The dramatic upshot tells the story of the formwork, and the building being constructed, he says. “The image shows the importance of teamwork to get the job done. I am always trying to put myself in position with workers to make viewers feel like they are there,” he says. “Knowing the process definitely helps with the success of the image. I’m always premeditating the next step.”

Tower Upgrade, Rabbit Mountain, Idaho

Photographer and Submitter: Jeremy Gudac

To capture this shot of workers Andrew Riggs, TJ Caddell and Cade Randall replacing communication tower equipment with nothing but moody skies beyond, Jeremy Gudac, marketing manager for general contractor BHI, took his Canon R5 camera with a 70-200mm lens on a small hike. “About 50 yards away there was a little hill I could climb up on,” he says. Rather than shoot what he describes as a more typical image of a single tower in the sky, the vantage point “was the perfect opportunity to get the height of the tower with the sky and people in it and also get the two other towers.” While Gudac’s role has him shooting almost all of the company’s projects, outside professional photography pursuits have also added fashion and sports to his portfolio.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge, Windsor, Ontario

Photographer and Submitter: Matthew Moniz

Moniz is Bridging North America’s design coordinator on the Gordie Howe International Bridge project, specializing in the Canadian Port of Entry part. As a fully licensed drone pilot, he’s also the overall project drone operator. A cooling Detroit River from the previous evening gave way to a warm morning on Oct. 3 and brought in a thick blanket of rolling fog that crossed Windsor and passed the 1.5-mile span well into Detroit. “As soon as I saw the fog coming in, I quickly launched the project drone into the air to capture the amazing phenomenon,” Moniz said.

Onshore Wind Energy Project, Lewis county, N.Y.

Photographer and Submitter: Dennis Lee

Adding a telephoto lens to a drone enables photographers to snap hard-to-capture moments, such as the expression of a harnessed worker guiding the final blade at this wind project in Lewis County, N.Y., on the Tug Hill Plateau, the fourth site of its kind in the region. But weather remains a challenge, says Lee. “A technical problem, high wind or impending weather that can bring lightning can kill a day or cause several hours of delays and nothing gets done,” he explains. “That is very frustrating. So there’s a lot of ‘hurry up and wait’ on sites that are not compatible with working as a freelance photographer. I have to keep moving.”

Elm Fork Water Treatment Plant Filter Complex Phase 1, Carrollton, Texas

Photographer: Aidan Williams
Submitted by: Rachel Sackett, Southland Holdings

Williams was taking a drone video of basins at the new water treatment plant filter complex for the City of Dallas Water Utilities, meant to manage stormwater flow, when this duality came into view. “One side is empty and the other side is completely filled … I really liked the symmetry of it,” he says. “I enjoyed the framing so much I stopped the video and immediately took the picture.” Now marketing coordinator for contractor Southland Holdings, he had been an intern to Chief of Staff Rachel Sackett, and before that, Williams was a kid being shown jobsites by his father, a nearly 30-year firm veteran. At 22, Williams’ age belies his experience. “He has a beautiful eye for photography and video,” says Sackett, “and understands our industry.”

Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project, Waterloo Station

Photographer: Morris McLennan
Submitted by: Leanna Fuller, John Holland Group

Morris McLennan of Rusty Goat Media in Australia shot this photo with a Nikon Z9 last June. It shows crews installing escalators about 25 meters below ground at a project where John Holland Group is prime contractor. McLennan shot it at 10:45 a.m. using available light. Cath Bowen, Rusty Goat Media photography director, said she particularly liked this image for its symmetry and how it was framed with the escalators near the artwork.

Onshore Wind Energy Project, Broome County, N.Y.

Photographer and Submitter: Dennis Lee

Under evening work lights, a worker was connecting a lifting cleat on the iron deck of a wind turbine tower when photographer Lee captured this image at a project that contractor TWG is constructing in Broome County, in the foothills of the Catskills Mountains in upstate New York. The lights “were throwing this golden light onto one of the tower platforms while it was being prepped for the lift,” says Lee. “The color looked great and when I saw the double shadow, I loved it.” TWG is managing EPC work on the civil and electrical portions of the project.

Undisclosed Project, Va.

Photographer and Submitter: Chuck Morgan

Dirt is not usually visually compelling until you see it from a different perspective, says photographer Morgan, who used a drone to take this photo 350 ft above dozens of piles of dirt in various hues: red, orange, tan, black and gray. “It just looked pretty,” says the content producer for Phillips Infrastructure about the image that offers a bird’s-eye view of the piles. It shows that even dirt can be beautiful, adds Morgan, who has a copy of the photo hanging in his home.

Sydney Metro Rail, Sydney

Photographer: Justin Sanson
Submitted by: Angela Ricardo, CPB Contractors

Sanson was intrigued by this crew’s effort to guide the shield of a 1,300-tonne tunnel-boring machine being assembled to bore one line of the Australia transit megaproject, set to link downtown Sydney for the first time to western suburbs and to an international airport under construction. With the shield’s weight and the tight space it needed to fit into, “I knew if I could keep following the workers I could get a shot where they were together as a team,” says the photographer, who had to maneuver in a very tight space under time pressure to shoot. “Thankfully, I was able to find the moment.”

Onshore Wind Project, Broome County, N.Y.

Honorable Mention
Photographer and Submitter: Dennis Lee

Sub-zero, Glendale, Ariz.

Honorable Mention
Photographer and Submitter: Robby Brown

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, Medora, N.D.

Honorable Mention
Photographer: Chad Ziemendorf
Submitted by: Lexi Kurttila, JE Dunn Construction

Şişecam Glass Packaging Factory, Eskişehir, Turkey

Honorable Mention
Photographer and Submitter: Onur Tulu

Sempra LNG Substation Earthwork, Port Arthur, Texas

Honorable Mention
Photographer and Submitter: Robb Williamson

Tehran, Iran

Honorable Mention
Photographer and Submitter: Mohammad Dadsetan

Port of Alaska Modernization Program, North Expansion Stabilization phase 1, Anchorage, Alaska

Honorable Mention
Photographer and Submitter: Alexander Herlant

1915 ÇANAKKALE BRİDGE, Turkey

Honorable Mention
Photographer: İsmail Bahadır SINIR
Submitted by: Diyez Beksac, 1915 Çanakkale Motorway and Bridge A.Ş. - ÇOK A.Ş. / DLSY JV