Buried Bridges Elevate Fort Lauderdale Runway
Contractors and engineers face tricky site conditions as they build Fort Lauderdale airport's elevated, sloping runway.

At Cape Canaveral, a Powerful Launch
FPL has rebuilt its Cape Canaveral plant to use natural gas and, with the help of the world’s most efficient turbines, generate more power with fewer emissions.

University of Florida Creates a High-Tech Community at its Doorstep
In an effort to attract technology companies and the young workers they covet, the university is following in the footsteps of other schools by masterminding a mixed-use village.

Marlins Park is ENR Southeast's 'Project of the Year'
The project won the top Best Projects award by showcasing engineering savvy, nontraditional design and a strong lineup of construction achievements.

Tampa's Elevated Connector Tests the Team
An elevated Tampa toll road with 23 spans, a tangle of flyovers and unexpected foundation issues is challenging the project team, while it is also revealing the limitations of contractor-obtained financing.

AECOM's Latest Hit: No. 1 on the Southeast Charts
By Scott Judy and Debra Wood
There's a new giant in the No. 1 position of ENR Southeast's annual Top Design Firms ranking this year, and even though it's the firm's first time atop the charts, the company's success is anything but a big surprise.

Owner of the Year: North Carolina DOT
By Scott Judy and Jim Parsons
North Carolina's Dept. of Transportation pushed forward to meet the needs of state construction industry stakeholders and residents alike in 2011, thus earning ENR Southeast's designation as "Owner of the Year."

Marlins' Retractable Roof Braces Itself for Storms
By Debra Wood
Hurricanes and the sail effect dominated the thinking of the design team for the nation's first retractable-roof baseball park engineered to withstand 146-mph winds.

ENR Southeast Recognizes the Region's Best
By Scott Judy
This year's Best Projects competition reached a broader geographic region than ever before as ENR Southeast expanded its ?call for entries? to Alabama, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., along with the magazine's core coverage area of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.

Speed Drives the Work On Boeing 'Dream' Plant
By Scott Judy
Nightmarish ground conditions and a fast-tracked schedule are not stopping the design-build team for a 692,000-sqft airplane assembly plant in South Carolina from delivering the building in just 18 months and on budget.

PCL: Contractor of the Year
With an appetite for technically complex and otherwise demanding projects, and several recent, high-profile wins in both the building and civil sectors, PCL Construction Enterprises is flying high when other Southeast contractors are lying low.

ENR Southeast’s Top Design Firms
The ongoing Southeast retrenchment for architectural and engineering services continued unabated in 2010, as evidenced by a further decline in the collective revenue represented by ENR Southeast's most recent Top Design Firms ranking.

ENR Southeast’s Owner of the Year
Electric utility executives are often asked, “What kind of power plants will we need? Nuclear? Natural gas? Clean coal? Biomass? Solar?” A common answer is, “All of the above.”

Six Companies to Watch
Every year in the construction industry, a few firms stand out, possibly for a string of new contract awards, challenging projects or, as is lately the case for some, achieving business success that other firms fail to attain. What firms will stake leadership positions in the coming year is still up for grabs, of course.

The Southeast's Best Projects of 2010
The Southeast’s construction and design industries may have taken a hit during the recent economic downturn, but construction and design excellence is still in abundant supply throughout the region, judging by the winners of Southeast Construction’s “Best Of 2010” competition.

The Southeast's Best Projects of 2010
The Southeast’s construction and design industries may have taken a hit during the recent economic downturn, but construction and design excellence is still in abundant supply throughout the region, judging by the winners of Southeast Construction’s “Best Of 2010” competition.

The Southeast’s Top Design Firms
2009 was a year many working in the Southeast’s construction and design industry would rather forget. While contractors of all types certainly suffered, many architects and other designers felt the pain just as intensely, as the number of business opportunities fell away with the receding markets.

Top Specialty Contractors
Plainly, 2009 was not a good year for Southeast contractors and designers. And judging from the data collected from ENR Southeast’s annual Top Specialty Contractors survey, for the ranking published here, specialty firms took a severe hit last year.

Flying High:
Charlotte-based BE&K Building Group is the "Contractor of the Year"
By Scott Judy and Debra Wood
It’s no secret: 2009 was another bad year for many contractors working in the four-state Southeast region.

Championship Run
By Scott Judy and Debra Wood
The Orlando Magic weren’t able to top Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers in last year’s Finals of the National Basketball Association playoffs.

Public Works: Industry’s Salvation
By Scott Judy
Transportation, Military and Civic Projects are Saving the Day for Some Southeast Firms

2010 ENR Southeast Outlook
The new year will likely bring considerably more pain to contractors and designers working in the ENR Southeast region, especially as firms focused on a still-declining commercial sector work off their thinning backlogs.

Southeast Construction?s Best Of 2009 Awards
Southeast Construction presents its ninth annual Best Of awards, in honor of the ?best? construction and design efforts in the four-state region completed between Sept. 1, 2008, and Sept. 1, 2009.

Sustainability Report
There?s no doubt about it. The movement to build ?green? is becoming mainstream. Private owners are calling for green buildings with greater frequency, and some public entities are beginning to mandate it.

Top Design Firms
The downturn in the Southeast's construction economy is definitely hitting some design firms in the four-state region as well, a fact that is apparently reflected in this year's Southeast Construction Top Design Firms ranking.

South Florida Report: All Dried Up
The recession had adversely affected South Florida’s construction activity, with stalled projects in all markets.

The Southeast's Top Specialty Contractors
Contractor adapts to changing times, venturing into new markets, but not altering its focus on building relationships.

Contractor of the Year: Brasfield & Gorrie
Contractor adapts to changing times, venturing into new markets, but not altering its focus on building relationships.

Southeast’s Top Project Starts
Signs of Private-Sector Slump Abound as Public Projects Dominate Ranking

Owner of the Year: FDOT
The Florida Dept. of Transportation was selected as the magazine's first "Owner of the Year."

The Southeast’s Top Contractors
Southeast Construction presents its ninth annual Top Contractors ranking. This year, the ranking is deeper, with 175 Top Contractors, compared to 160 from a year ago.

Tip Off at the Orlando Events Center
The $480 million Orlando Events Center is the first project of a three-venue, nearly $1-billion municipal program to enhance downtown Orlando.

The Return of the Fontainebleau
The landmark Miami Beach hotel, the Fontainebleau, once synonymous with panache and frequented by Frank Sinatra, Elvis and Marilyn Monroe, has reopened.

2009 Southeast Construction Outlook
Once, not too long ago, 2009 was supposed to be the year when the housing market turned around and the nation’s overall economic situation would finally start to improve.