• Project Innovations Awards 2009: Welcome the Winners

    Buildings’ annual Project Innovations awards celebrate operational excellence in North American buildings.

    Oct. 1, 2009
    25 min read

    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
      Julianne F. Laue
    Mechanical Engineer, Senior Associate
    DLR Group
    Minneapolis  
      Andrew J. McGonigle
    Project Manager
    Northwestern University
    Evanston, IL
      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

             
    Green Facilities   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
     
             
    Interior Design   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
     
             
    Modernization   New Blood
    The adaptive reuse of an abandoned warehouse reinvigorates a transfusion center
    New York Blood Center, New York City
     
             
    New Construction   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

             
    Modernization   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
     
             
    Green Facilities   St. Louis Conversion Captures LEED Gold
    The Power House meets Cannon Design’s desire for a new way of working
    Power House, St. Louis
     
             
    New Construction   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
     
             
    Modernization   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

             
    Green Facilities   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
     
             
    Modernization   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
     
             
    Interior Design   A Tropical Paradise
    The modernized Gansevoort South Hotel in Miami Beach uses its tropical location as inspiration for its design
    Gansevoort South Hotel, Miami Beach
     
             
    Green Facilities   Merging Past and Present
    HON’s intensive headquarters renovation reveals the building’s striking heritage
    The HON Company, Muscatine, IA
     
             
    New Construction   A Research Edge
    A medical college creates a sharp centerpiece for its expanding research campus
    Price Center for Genetic and Translational Medicine, New York City
     
             
    Interior Design   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
    PSU Dickinson School of Law, State College, PA
     
             
    New Construction   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
    Health Lodge and Silver Sage Staff Activity Center, Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, NM
     
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