Area Projects Honored as "Best of 2003"

This year's round of Northwest Construction's Best of 2003 winners proves that bigger is not necessarily better.

While a number of the honorees are large, spectacular projects, many are comparatively small; winning over the jurors with engineering expertise, collaborative work efforts and unique solutions to challenging issues.

Take the Helen Gordon Child Development Center in Portland, Ore., as an example. The expansion and addition project wasn't a big job in monetary terms, but the project team's value engineering efforts were commendable. Our panel of industry judges noticed.

The following pages are filled with projects that, big or small, highlight the efforts of owners, architects, engineers, contractors, and tradespeople to make the Northwest's build environment unique.

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Our annual competition allows two panels of industry experts (one set of judges in Washington and one in Oregon) to define excellence. Meet them here. These groups each spent a day in October judging dozens of projects throughout the two states. The entries were submitted by their peers and competitors from architecture, contracting and engineering firms throughout the region. Jurors chose winners based on a number of criteria, including quality of construction and/or design, ability to overcome challenges, and innovation.

Interested in entering a project in next year's Best of 2004? Make sure we have your contact information by emailing your name, address, phone and fax numbers to Sheila Bacon at sheila_bacon@mcgraw-hill.com. Then watch your mailbox for a flyer next summer. Until then, enjoy the Best of 2003.

Sheila Bacon, Editor

Northwest Construction magazine