Across the country, Skanska projects and team members are regularly recognized with local and national awards. Below are our most recent honors:
Across the country, Skanska projects and team members are regularly recognized with local and national awards. Below are our most recent honors:
Our Bertschi School Science Classroom Addition in Seattle was named to the Best of Green Schools list, which is published by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Center for Green Schools. In recognizing Bertschi, the USGBC noted that it is the first project in the world built to Living Building Challenge version 2.0 standards and in an urban setting.
In California, for the third year in a row we won the President’s Safety Award from the Construction Employers Association for our activities statewide. This award recognizes member firms with safety programs far exceeding industry standards.
In New York City, our construction of Wilf Hall for New York University’s School of Law received the Award of Excellence for Design and Construction of a New Facility. The International Facility Management Association’s New York City Chapter presented us with this award. Also in New York, our transformation of an armory into offices for a major multimedia entertainment company received the Adaptive Reuse Interiors Award from Contract magazine.
Near Washington, D.C., two of our projects each won two Craftsmanship Awards from the Washington Building Congress. The Center for Weather and Climate Prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) won awards for lighting systems and power generation, distribution and switchgear. Also, our interior build-out for TARGUSinfo won awards for ceramic tile and terrazzo, and for doors and hardware.
Three Skanska leaders were named to ENR magazine’s Top 20 under 40 lists: James Bailey, Phoenix Division manager; Scott Cannon, senior vice president in Texas; and O.T. Delancy, a Florida project executive.
On the East Coast, ENR Mid-Atlantic recently honored the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in Riverdale Park, Md., with its Best Government/Public Building award, and honored the Indian River Inlet Bridge in Rehoboth Beach, Del., with an award of merit in the transportation category.
In Washington, D.C., the 11th Street Corridor Design-Build project earned the top ranking on Roads & Bridges magazine’s 2012 Top 10 Bridges list.
On the West Coast, two Seattle projects won awards from the Washington state chapter of NAIOP, a real estate trade group. Skanska projects honored were CityTarget, a downtown Target store that won for retail development of the year, and the Bertschi School Science Classroom Addition, which won as best private education development of the year. The Bertschi project was the first project in Washington to pursue stringent Living Building Challenge environmental certification.
In Delaware, the Indian River Inlet Bridge won a 2012 Construction Excellence award from the Delaware Contractors Association (DCA).
In the Northwest, two projects won awards last week in ENR Northwest magazine’s Best Projects competition. The Ridgeview High School project in Redmond, Ore., won best project in the K-12 Education category, while the University of Washington Medical Center Expansion in Seattle won an award of merit in the healthcare project category.