10/01/2009
Project Innovations Awards 2009: Welcome the Winners
Buildings’ annual Project Innovations awards celebrate operational excellence in North American buildings.
This year’s program judged
buildings in four
categories:
- Green Facilities
- Interior Design
- Modernization
- New Construction
Across these categories, the 2009 project entries included examples of office, retail, higher education, healthcare, public, and hospitality buildings.
The judges for the 2009 program were:
Michael D. Delev
General Manager
Hines
Charlotte, NC |
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Julianne F. Laue
Mechanical Engineer, Senior Associate
DLR Group
Minneapolis |
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Andrew J. McGonigle
Project Manager
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL |
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Stephanie J. Warren
Senior Director of Facilities Management
Kindred Healthcare
Louisville, KY |
The following articles are a showcase of inventive and efficient facilities that include the Grand Prize winners, Citations of Excellence, and Finalists. Product suppliers for each winner appear on a separate listing page.
Grand Prize Winners
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World’s Greenest Office High-Rise
This corporate office and trading facility isn’t just world-class – it’s the first tower in the world designed and built with LEED Platinum in mind |
| One Bryant Park, New York City |
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Restoring a Landmark
A historic Chicago hotel remains the longest continuously operating hotel
in North America while restored to its original grandeur |
| Palmer House, Chicago |
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New Blood
The adaptive reuse of an abandoned warehouse reinvigorates a transfusion center |
| New York Blood Center, New York City |
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Towering Accomplishment
Silicon Valley’s largest green project offers high-class amenities |
| Jay Paul Moffett Towers, Sunnyvale, CA |
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Citations of Excellence
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Chiller Upgrade
Yields Cool Savings
With failing and inefficient cooling towers, and historical operating practices,
this hotel engineered, specified, and selected three new cooling towers |
| Orlando World Center Marriott |
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St. Louis Conversion
Captures LEED Gold
The Power House meets Cannon Design’s desire for a new way of working |
| Power House, St. Louis |
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Expanding Housing Options
in an Emerging Area
Modern architectural details establish Moana Pacific as a dominant structure in Honolulu’s up-and-coming Kakaako Special Design District |
| Moana Pacific, Honolulu |
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Good Aesthetics
Make Good Neighbors
The Harlem River Bridge Shop Facility incorporates two buildings – an additional shop and administration office space to house growing shop needs |
| Harlem River Bridge Shop Facility, New York City |
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Finalists
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The Heart of Collaborative Care
A new cardiovascular center provides a healing environment for patients |
| Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
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Restoration & Consolidation
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration completed Building 1 as part of one of the biggest government construction projects currently underway in the country |
| FDA Building 1, Silver Spring, MD |
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A Tropical Paradise
The modernized Gansevoort South Hotel in Miami Beach uses its tropical location as inspiration for its design
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| Gansevoort South Hotel, Miami Beach |
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Merging Past and Present
HON’s intensive headquarters renovation reveals the building’s striking heritage
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| The HON Company, Muscatine, IA |
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A Research Edge
A medical college creates a sharp centerpiece for its expanding research campus
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| Price Center for Genetic and Translational Medicine, New York City
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Classrooms of the Future
PSU Dickinson School of Law’s technologically advanced classrooms set a precedent within law schools for the use of technology in teaching classes
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| PSU Dickinson School of Law, State College, PA
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A Welcome Addition
Facilities combine the contemporary needs of a medical facility and youth staff members with the mystique of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
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| Health Lodge and Silver Sage Staff Activity Center, Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, NM
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