ENR New England’s 2022 Best Projects Awards took place on Nov. 29 at the Hyatt Regency Boston in Downtown Crossing. Some 150 top construction professionals in the region attended the breakfast event as 18 projects were recognized in 14 project categories. 

This awards event is one in a series of special events across the country to celebrate and honor project teams that created the "best" regional projects. The projects are selected by juries of local prominent industry professionals. The winning projects automatically qualify to compete in ENR’s national Best of the Best Projects competition. Those winners will be recognized at an awards event in April in New York City.  

The New England region includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Click for the full list of winners. 

The annual Legacy Award was given to Jay Brotman, managing partner at New Haven, Conn.-based designer Svigals + Partners. He was introduced by John Giovannone, senior vice president, Whiting-Turner contracting Co., who worked on projects with Brotman in and around Yale University for 30 years. Giovannone said the essence of Jay is “community.”

Brotman, who helped design the new Sandy Hook Elementary School, said “we knew our process was working when the discussion moved from what happened in the past to what they wanted for their future.” Brotman continued, “Together we designed a school that would build on their aspirations and look to the future generations that would inhabit this special space…a safe place for children to be children.”

This year ENR also honored E.M. Duggan, a Canton, Mass.-based mechanical firm, as ENR New England Specialty Contractor of the Year.

The final award of the morning was given to this year’s New England Project of the Year and Best Specialty Construction and Best Project Excellence in Sustainability, Conley Terminal Modernization Program: New Berth 10 in Boston. 

Submissions for the 2023 Regional Best Project awards will be accepted in April. 

To read more about the rest of this year's winning projects, click on the links below:

• Best K-12 Education and Project of the Year finalist: Campus Center Addition at Cotting School
• Best Airport/Transit and Project of the Year Finalist: P-310 Dry Dock 1 Super Flood Basin
• Award of Merit Government/Public Building: Ballardvale Fire Station
• Award of Merit Health Care: Boston Children's Hospital Hale Family Clinical Building
• Award of Merit Health Care: Bristol Hospital Emergency Department Addition
• Best Higher Education/Research: Boston College Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society
• Higher Education/Research and Award of Merit Excellence in Safety: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Unity Hall
• Best Highway/Bridge: Chelsea Viaduct Rehabilitation
• Award of Merit Highway/Bridge: Exit 103 Open Road Tolling and Bridge Reconstruction Project
• Award of Merit Interior/Tenant Improvement: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Cell & Gene Therapy Fit-out at Innovation Square
• Award of Merit K-12 Education: Worcester South High Community School
• Best Office/Retail/Mixed-Use: EMD Serono Horizon Building
• Award of Merit Office/Retail/Mixed-Use: Hobbs Brook Development, 225 Wyman Street
• Best Residential/Hospitality: The Langham, Boston
• Best Renovation/Restoration and Award of Merit Excellence in Sustainability: Squirrelwood Apartments
• Award of Merit Renovation/Restoration: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
• Best Water/Environment and Best Project Excellence in Safety: Peirce Island Wastewater Treatment Facility Upgrade