The best projects increase the bar for design, the excellence of construction

As Enr Texas and Southeast readers know, the regional publication publishing area was expanded in 2025, joining the already extensive region of Texas and Louisiana with the robust southeast area in a single and massive supergogy that included 11 states as well as Puerto Rico.

At the same time, however, we assure you to cover these thorough robust construction markets and constantly ensuring that each number of Enr Texas and southeast continues to include features and news from the two subregions. And this commitment continues with our annual number of the best projects, which shows the best in design and construction of all this broad landscape, with separate groups of winning projects for each subregion.

Universal Studios’ How to form your Dragon attraction was one of the finalists of this year’s project.
Chad Baumer’s photo

The judged panelists collectively reviewed a total of 18 categories of different projects, ranging from the airport/traffic to the water/environment while evaluating factors such as security, innovation, design execution, craft quality and the benefit of the community or industry.

As always, we brought together separate teams from Judge Teams for both the Texas and Louisiana and South -East, with the numerous panels that review and score all the entries in various categories individually before meeting with their colleagues Judges through a video call to determine the winning projects and their respective levels of award. Projects that bet on the categories of separate prizes in security and excellence in sustainability were judged separately.

ENR is a thank you to the industry professionals who are shown below that they attended this year’s judges.

• Michelle Alvarez, Water Engineer/Wastewater, Hanson Professional Services
• Scott Bartkowski, President/Founder, Living Shoreline Solutions
• Robert Brown, lead director/local business leader, WSP
• Stuart Bruening, Senior Vice President, Je Dunn Construction
• Keith Douglas, Executive Vice President, Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.
• Robbie Ferris, President, SFL+A
• Julia Hodgins, architect, RNGD
• Dan Nawrocki, Senior Vice President, PC Construction
• Ron Osterloh, Vice President, Moffatt and Nichol
• Natalie Pagano, director of Marketing and Communications, Manhattan Construction Group
• Ray Riddle, Vice President, Holder Construction Co.
• Shirshant Sharma, Senior Project Manager, Atkinsréalis
• Grace Sober, Technical Leader, Lan Inc.
• Susan Stabler, Regional Vice President/Division Manager, Brasfield and Gorrie
• Aaron Thomas, President/CEO, Metcon Inc.
• Ron Whalen, Vice President, Roger B. Kennedy Construction

The Mickey Lland International D Terminal D project was a contestant for this year’s project.
Clayce Wall photo

ENR will present these best project winners to their respective teams in separate awards events. Texas & Louisiana projects will be recognized on October 16 in Houston and the projects of the South Region -east, honored on October 23 in Orlando.

In each event, Enr will also recognize the respective companies of 2025 of the year, including the owner of the year, the design firm of the year, the contractor of the year, the specialized contractor of the year and the honors of the Legacy Award.

We invite you to read and judge by yourself the merits of the winners of the prizes of the best projects Enr Texas & Southeest Southeest Southest.