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Texas Construction Best of 2005 Awards
This year, 50 firms submitted 95
projects for our annual awards competition. An independent
panel of judges reviewed the entries and chose 36 projects
as the Best of 2005 winners.
Texas Construction's Best of 2005 awards competition marks
the ninth year the magazine has called on contractors, designers
and other Texas-based firms to submit entries for best projects
completed in the past year.
We are pleased to present the 36 winning projects chosen by
our independent panel of judges as the best designed, built
and renovated projects around the state.
This year we received 95 entries, five more than last year's
90 submitted projects. This year's entries spanned more than
20 categories from 50 construction, design and specialty companies.
As word spreads about Texas Construction's awards program,
the number of entries each year has continued to grow. It
is our hope that this demonstrates the importance the state's
construction and design industry places on this awards competition.
This year, projects were evaluated by a jury of prominent
architects, construction professionals and industry leaders.
They were:
- Dr. Charles Graham, Ph.D., AIA, Mitchell endowed professor,
the College of Architecture, Department of Construction
Science, Texas A&M University, College Station
- Julius M. Gribou, AIA, dean, College of Architecture,
The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Stephen Sharpe, editor, Texas Architect magazine
- John M. Sutton, president, Austin Chapter of the Building
Owners and Managers Association
- Doug Woodall, director of turnpike planning and development
for the Turnpike Division of TxDOT
We are grateful to this year's judges for their time and
careful consideration of each project's merits.
The awards are Texas Construction's way of paying tribute
to the dedicated and industrious individuals and teams in
the Texas construction industry. We want to thank all the
companies that submitted entries in this year's competition.
Using a numerical grading system from one to five, the judges
scored each project on five criteria: construction/design
innovation, solutions to challenges, project management, client
service and safety.
Winning projects were determined in four categories. The Judges'
Award was determined by the panel to be the best of all the
entries; Best of Awards were given to the projects with the
highest scores in each category that received three or more
nominations; Awards of Excellence were awarded to projects
scoring 4.0 or above; Awards of Merit were given to projects
scoring between 3.5 and 3.9.
This year, the Judges' Award went to the Dallas/Fort Worth
International Airport's new Terminal D; 10 projects earned
Best of Awards; 16 projects scored high enough to win an Award
of Excellence; and nine entries took home an Award of Merit.
The following pages showcase the winning projects. The information
and images were taken from the project submissions and represent
edited versions of the elements provided to the judges for
evaluation.
Best
of 2005 >>
Award of
Excellence-Design >
Awards of
Merit >>
Judges' Award-Construction
International Terminal D >>
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