ENR New England is excited to announce this year’s group of regional Best Project winners, with 19 projects awarded in fourteen main categories.

In addition to the 2023 main category winners found in the list below, the Best Projects safety and sustainability awardees, which are juried by a separate group of safety and sustainability experts, will be announced next month in the ENR New England free e-newsletter. Finalists for this year’s ENR New England Project of the Year will also be announced soon.  
 
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Judges’ selection for this year’s overall Project of the Year from the Best Project-level winners listed below will be announced in the November issue of ENR New England and at the ENR New England Best Projects awards event on Dec. 1. For more information about the Regional Best Projects event, please visit https://www.enr.com/enr-best-projects-awards/boston. This year’s winning projects in the main categories—listed at the bottom of this post—will also be profiled in depth in the November print issue of ENR New England. Projects were all located in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.  

Projects were evaluated on the ability of the project team to overcome challenges, safety, construction/design quality, and contribution to the industry and the community. Due to the large number of entries, we can only cite a fraction of projects submitted each year, so projects that did not win this year can be submitted next year if they are still eligible!

This year’s New England judges for the main categories were Scott Bascom, associate architect at Sasaki, a Boston-based design firm and Aidan Sullivan, project engineer at Engelberth Construction, Concord, N.H. 

Judges could select any combination of Best Project-level and and Award of Merit category winners. In some categories, judges decided not to give an award in a category.

Here’s this year's list of winners:

Airport/Transit  

Best Project 

Logan International Airport Terminal B to C Connector 

Boston 

Submitted by Suffolk 

Award of Merit 

Bradley International Airport Ground Transportation Center 

Windsor Locks, Conn. 

Submitted by KBE Building Corp. 

Cultural/Worship 

Best Project

The Huntington Theater

Boston

Submitted by Shawmut Design and Construction 

Health Care 

Best Project 

Boston Medical Center Brockton Behavioral Health Center

Brockton, Mass.

Submitted by CMTA, Inc. 

Award of Merit 

Baystate Medical Center Surgical Operating and Interventional Suites

Springfield, Mass. 

Submitted by DPR Construction 

Higher Education/Research 

Best Project

Bowdoin College, John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies and Barry Mills Hall 

Brunswick, Maine 

Submitted by Consigli Construction 

Award of Merit 

Boston University Center for Computing & Data Sciences

Boston

Submitted by Suffolk

Highway/Bridge

Best Project 

I-295 Over Veranda St. Bridge Replacement 

Portland, Maine 

Submitted by Cianbro, HNTB Corp. and MaineDOT 

Interior/Tenant Improvement  

Award of Merit 

BJ’s Wholesale Club Headquarters 

Marlborough, Mass. 

Submitted by Timberline Construction Corp. 

K-12 Education  

Best Project 

Bristol County Agricultural High School Campus Expansion and Renovation

Dighton, Mass.

Submitted by Gilbane Building Co. 

Award of Merit 

Maria Weston Chapman Middle School 

Town of Weymouth, Mass. 

Manufacturing  

Best Project

Rentschler Biopharma Manufacturing Center (RBMC)

Milford, Mass.

Submitted by Commodore Builders

Office/Retail/Mixed-Use

Best Project 

Mass Timber for Mass Workers: The C. Gerald Lucey Building

Brockton, Mass.

Submitted by Jones Architecture Inc.

Renovation/Restoration 

Best Project

Union Mills 37 

Attleboro, Mass. 

Submitted by Timberline Construction Corp. 

Residential/Hospitality  

Award of Merit

Avalon North Andover 

North Andover, Mass. 

Submitted by AvalonBay Communities 

Small Project 

Award of Merit 

Bluebird Bio 

Somerville, Mass. 

Submitted by Timberline Construction Corp. 

Specialty Construction 

Best Project 

Historic Stone Bridge Remediation of CSX Acquired Pan Am Railway

Lancaster, Mass. 

Submitted by GeoStabilization International 

Sports/Entertainment 

Best Project 

Connecticut College Waterfront Revitalization 

New London, Conn.

CHA Consulting Inc. 

Award of Merit 

Fairfield University - Leo D. Mahoney Arena 

Fairfield, Conn. 

Submitted by Gilbane Building Co.