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    <title>2016</title>
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      <![CDATA[ENR’s annual Best Projects award program is dedicated to honoring the best construction projects and the companies that designed and built them in all 50 states plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico.]]>
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      <title>Natural Impacts With High-Tech Results Define Northwest Best Projects</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Many of the Best Project and Award of Merit winners in the latest incarnation of the competition conquer and compliment nature on high-tech and infrastructure projects alike</p>]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41035</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:02:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Best Sports Entertainment - University of Oregon - Jane Sanders Stadium</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Home to the Oregon Ducks softball team, the 1,500-seat Jane Sanders Stadium in Eugene, Ore., includes locker rooms, meeting spaces, coaches&rsquo; offices, training rooms and equipment space.</p>]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41057</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Award of Merit Water/Environment - Colorado Dam Safe Passage (Bend Whitewater Park)</title>
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        <![CDATA[The creation of Bend Whitewater Park rehabilitated a stretch of the Deschutes River in Bend, Ore., creating an improved habitat for fish and wildlife as well as a safer passage for river rafters with the West Coast&rsquo;s first &ldquo;adjustable standing wave&rdquo; kayak/surfing run.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41056</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Best Water/Environment - Asplund WWTF Disinfection Upgrade Project</title>
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        <![CDATA[The $11-million upgrade to the Asplund Wastewater Treatment Facility’s disinfection system allowed the Anchorage, Alaska, facility to stop using hauled-in chlorine gas for disinfection and instead use potentially less dangerous sodium hypochlorite to create chlorine gas on demand.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41055</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <media:title type="plain">Anchorage Water &amp; Wastewater Utility</media:title>
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      <title>Small Project under 10 million Award of Merit - Ivar's Pier 54 Piling and Apron Replacement</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Originally built in the 1980s for industrial use, the historic Ivar&rsquo;s Pier 54 was deteriorating and in need of seismic improvements following the 2001 Nisqually earthquake and a decade of deferred maintenance.</p>]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41054</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Best Residential/Hospitality - Hassalo on Eighth</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Hassalo on Eighth eco-community in Portland, Ore., is a mixed-use and multiblock development.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41052</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/41052-best-residentialhospitality---hassalo-on-eighth</link>
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        <media:title type="plain">Hassalo interior</media:title>
        <media:description type="plain">Photo By Lara Swimmer</media:description>
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        <media:title type="plain">Hassalo development Elmwood Building</media:title>
        <media:description type="plain">Photo By Lara Swimmer</media:description>
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        <media:title type="plain">Hassalo development Velomor Building</media:title>
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      <title>Best Office/Retail/Mixed Use - Karuna East &amp; West Buildings at One North</title>
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        <![CDATA[The $18.5-million Karuna East & West in Portland, Ore., was built on a brownfield site that had been unoccupied for 40 years.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41051</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/41051-best-officeretailmixed-use---karuna-east-west-buildings-at-one-north</link>
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        <media:description type="plain">Image by Andrew Pogue
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      <title>Office/Retail/Mixed Use Award of Merit - SRMKII Phase 2 Tech. Office Core and Shell</title>
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        <![CDATA[Located in Kirkland, Wash., the 180,000-sq-ft project involved redevelopment of five acres of brownfield into a shell for build-to-suit offices.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41050</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/41050-officeretailmixed-use-award-of-merit---srmkii-phase-2-tech-office-core-and-shell</link>
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      <title>Best Healthcare - Seattle Children's South Clinic</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Built to bring outpatient services closer to patients, Seattle Children&rsquo;s South Clinic is located within a shopping center in a former Circuit City store.</p>]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41049</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Healthcare Award of Merit - Navos Behavioral Healthcare Center for Children, Youth &amp; Families</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The $13-million Navos Behavioral Healthcare Center for Children, Youth &amp; Families sits on the shores of Lake Burien and includes five buildings on 7.5 acres.</p>]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41048</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Best Green Project - Google Kirkland Campus – Building D</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>This five-acre campus in Kirkland was built to meet the rapid growth of Google&rsquo;s engineering teams in Washington state.</p>]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41047</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Best Government/Public Building - Eugene Veterans Affairs Healthcare Center</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The 127,000-sq-ft Eugene Veterans Affairs Health Care Center, a full-service outpatient clinic, is the first new VA clinic in Eugene, Ore., in 16 years.</p>]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41046</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <media:title type="plain">Eugene Veterans Affairs Health care Center</media:title>
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      <title>Best Highway/Bridge - Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People</title>
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        <![CDATA[Tilikum Crossing opened on schedule and $8 million under budget in September 2015.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41045</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/41045-best-highwaybridge---tilikum-crossing-bridge-of-the-people</link>
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      <title>Best Airport/Transit - East Segment of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>To create the new MAX Orange Line, part of the existing light rail system in Portland, Ore., workers added seven miles of track from southeast Portland to Milwaukie.</p>]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41044</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Excellence in Safety - Kodiak Airport RSA</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The $59-million Kodiak Airport project extended two runway safety areas 600 ft into the Gulf of Alaska by constructing an adjacent rock revetment, new service roads and taxiway, and by installing material arresting systems.</p>]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41043</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Higher Education/Research - Allen Institute</title>
      <author>ENRSouthWestEditor@enr.com (John Guzzon)</author>
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        <![CDATA[Allen Institute Combines Modern Research With History]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/41042</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/41042-higher-educationresearch---allen-institute</link>
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        <media:description type="plain">The building’s glass facade is a nod to the Allen Institute’s core value of transparency.

PHOTO BY BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER
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      <title>ENR New England Celebrates Region's Best Projects</title>
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        <![CDATA[From the renovation of one of the nation’s oldest subway stations to a “cellular polyhedral sculpture” created by a British artist, the winning entries in this year’s ENR New England Best Projects competition displayed impressive breadth.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40949</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:02:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Water/Environment Award of Merit and Award of Merit Safety - T.F. Green Airport Diecer Management System</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Before T.F. Green Airport completed its more efficient stormwater and deicer management system to meet state environmental management requirements in May 2015, the airport collected deicer runoff manually.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40966</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/40966-waterenvironment-award-of-merit-and-award-of-merit-safety---tf-green-airport-diecer-management-system</link>
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      <title>Water/Environment Best Project - Sutton Brook Disposal Area Superfund Site Remediation</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[For three decades, municipal and industrial waste was dumped in the Sutton Brook Disposal Area Superfund Site.]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40964</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/40964-waterenvironment-best-project---sutton-brook-disposal-area-superfund-site-remediation</link>
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        <media:description type="plain">Photo courtesy Charter Contracting Co. LLC</media:description>
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        <media:title type="plain">installing landfill cap at Sutton Brook Superfund site</media:title>
        <media:description type="plain">Photo courtesy Charter Contracting Co. LLC</media:description>
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        <media:title type="plain">Sutton Brook Superfund site remediation</media:title>
        <media:description type="plain">Photo courtesy Charter Contracting Co. LLC
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        <media:title type="plain">Sutton Brook Superfund site remediation</media:title>
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      <title>K-12 Education Award of Merit - North Reading Middle/High School</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Contractors completed renovating and expanding North Reading&rsquo;s 275,521-sq-ft integrated middle and high school in four phases during a 42-month span.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40963</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <media:description type="plain">Photo courtesy Gilbane Building Co.
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      <title>Specialty Construction Best Project - Antony Gormley Sculpture Fabrication &amp; Installation</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Fabricating a sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley for installation in a stairwell at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology&rsquo;s mathematics building was no easy task for Summit Metal Fabricators (SMF).]]>
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      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40962</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <media:description type="plain">Photo courtesy Peter Vanderwarker and Summit Metal Fabricators
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        <media:description type="plain">Photo courtesy Peter Vanderwarker and Summit Metal Fabricators
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        <media:title type="plain">fabricating the Antony Gormley sculpture</media:title>
        <media:description type="plain">Photo courtesy Peter Vanderwarker and Summit Metal Fabricators
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        <media:description type="plain">Photo courtesy Peter Vanderwarker and Summit Metal Fabricators
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      <title>Health Care Best Project - Building for Transformative Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Building for Transformative Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital is designed to help physicians and researchers from different disciplines collaborate on new treatments and therapies within the same facility.]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40961</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/40961-health-care-best-project---building-for-transformative-medicine-at-brigham-and-womens-hospital</link>
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      <title>Highway/Bridge Award of Merit and Award of Merit Safety- Kenneth F. Burns Memorial Bridge Replacement Design-Build Project</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[After the bridge over Lake Quinsigamond was deemed structurally deficient, the Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation sought to build an aesthetically pleasing alternative to the typical girder structures it usually builds.]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40960</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/40960-highwaybridge-award-of-merit-and-award-of-merit-safety--kenneth-f-burns-memorial-bridge-replacement-design-build-project</link>
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      <title>Green Project Best Project - Community Arts and Sciences Building, Common Ground School</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>The $9.6-million Common Ground School&rsquo;s Community Arts and Science Building is not just an educational facility, it&rsquo;s also a teaching tool.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40959</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/40959-green-project-best-project---community-arts-and-sciences-building-common-ground-school</link>
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        <media:description type="plain">PHOTO BY DAVID SUNDBERG, ESTO PHOTOGRAPHICS, COURTESY BENSONWOOD
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      <title>Energy/Industrial - Rehoboth Landfill Solar</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[In just three months, contractors added a sustainable element to the Rehoboth Landfill with the installation of 3,200 solar panels that collectively produce 1,300 kilowatt hours of electricity per month.]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40958</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/40958-energyindustrial---rehoboth-landfill-solar</link>
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      <title>Energy/Industrial Award of Merit - Passadumkeag Windpark</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Situated in the eastern stretches of the Maine wilderness, the 40-MW Passadumkeag Windpark spans rugged mountains and includes overhead collection lines traveling along logging roads.]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40957</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/40957-energyindustrial-award-of-merit---passadumkeag-windpark</link>
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      <title>Renovation/Restoration - Award of Merit - Uniqlo - Faneuil Hall</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>While the multilevel Uniqlo store in Boston&rsquo;s Quincy Market now boasts a sleek, modern look, the store maintains Faneuil Hall&rsquo;s historic vibe with restored granite, windows and exposed brick.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40956</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/40956-renovationrestoration---award-of-merit---uniqlo---faneuil-hall</link>
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      <title>Excellence in Safety Award and Best Energy/Industrial - Interstate Reliability Project</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The $218-million Interstate Reliability Project installed a series of interconnections to improve power reliability on the New England grid.]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40955</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/40955-excellence-in-safety-award-and-best-energyindustrial---interstate-reliability-project</link>
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        <media:title type="plain">Interstate Reliability Project</media:title>
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      <title>Government/Public - Waterbury State Office Complex Redevelopment</title>
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        <![CDATA[The village of Waterbury, Vt., sorely needed its state office complex redeveloped after Tropical Storm Irene damaged the facility in 2011.]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40954</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/articles/40954-governmentpublic-best-project---waterbury-state-office-complex-redevelopment</link>
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      <title>Renovations/Restoration Best Project - Government Center Station</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>The third subway station built in the U.S., Government Center Station in Boston hadn&rsquo;t had a significant face-lift in more than 50 years.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <guid>http://www.enr.com/articles/40953</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <media:description type="plain">Photo courtesy HDR
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        <media:description type="plain">Photo courtesy HDR</media:description>
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