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The crowd gathers at the 14th annual Top Projects event Thursday at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee. More than 400 people attended the event.
After 3-1/2 years of work, the crews behind the $350 million Mitchell Interchange project took home top honors Thursday night at The Daily Reporter’s Top Projects of 2012 event.
The massive interchange project was named Best in Show at the annual awards dinner, which celebrates the best in Wisconsin construction in the past year.
The 30 Top Projects of 2012 winners were selected based on challenges they overcame before and during construction, the benefit the projects offered to the communities they were being built in and any advancement they provided to the state’s construction industry.
The Daily Reporter’s panel of industry judges then selected the Best in Show from those 30 winning projects. The judging panel included:
- Jeff Beiriger, president, Association/Management Services Inc.
- Gene Guszkowski, president, AG Architecture Inc.
- Ken Kraemer, executive director, Building Advantage
- Michael MacLeish, director of engineering, SPI Lighting Inc.
- John Mielke, president, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc.
- Robert Rayburn, executive vice president, National Electrical Contractors Association Inc. – Milwaukee chapter
The judges were impressed by the Mitchell Interchange’s complexity, scope and positive impact on the community.
“To take a major artery in Wisconsin and minimize disruption is truly remarkable,” said Beiriger, president of Association/Management Services Inc.
Mielke, president of Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., noted the project “was the most complex part of the largest transportation project in the state’s history.”
And Guszkowski, president of AG Architecture Inc., said “sometimes I will go out of my way just to drive through the tunnels.”
The winning project team was presented with its special award at the conclusion of Thursday’s Top Projects of 2012 event at the Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee. More than 400 people attended the sold-out awards dinner and presentation, now in its 14th year.
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Best in show
Each year, a panel of industry judges select the Best in Show from the Daily Reporter’s Top Projects. This year’s winner is …
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124th Street
Construction team revives a crumbling road
Seeing for the first time the wasteland that was 124th Street between Milwaukee and Waukesha counties made it clear to Brad Abraham just how difficult his company’s job would be.
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2550 University Avenue Apartments
Developer, neighbors find common ground for project
It wasn’t the cherry wood cabinets that won the day. Nor was it the floor-to-ceiling windows, stainless steel appliances or the wrought-iron balcony just begging for a potted geranium.
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Alterra Bayview Café & Bakery
Alterra takes project changes in stride
Alterra Coffee Roasters rarely orders “the usual” for its neighborhood cafes.
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Beloit Apartments Redevelopment
Beloit housing work boosts a community
Coordination, cost control and working around those who must live in the midst of construction are some of the most difficult aspects of a home renovation.
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Black River Falls Dam
Mead and Hunt navigates uncharted waters
When Mead and Hunt Inc. engineers began design work to replace the Black River Falls Dam and build a new low-flow powerhouse, they entered uncharted territory.
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Clock Shadow Building
Clock Shadow takes sustainability to a new level
In the mind of architect Dan Beyer, the Clock Shadow Building epitomizes the word “sustainability.”
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De Pere Riverwalk and Wildlife Viewing Pier
De Pere Riverwalk a boon to local economy
Providing pedestrian access to the historic De Pere Lock presented construction and engineering managers with significant challenges.
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Former Getzen Co. Remediation
Cleanup team finds potential in toxic wasteland
The abandoned Getzen Co. site left the city of Elkhorn with an eyesore and a toxic threat to public health.
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Gundersen Lutheran Behavioral Health Building
Gundersen team blends security, compassion
There are unavoidable safety realities for those who help people in the darkest hours of their mental health problems.
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Hilton Garden Inn Milwaukee
Hilton team finds treasures in Loyalty Building
People who renovate century-old buildings expect the unexpected.
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Langlade Critical Access Hospital
Broad feedback fuels hospital design
Employees and patients played the roles of designers and planners during the preparation for the $47 million Langlade Hospital in Antigo.
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Lapham Park Revitalization
Senior housing gets a refresher
Milwaukee’s Lapham Park senior-housing program has won national awards for providing innovative care to some of the city’s senior residents.
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Marinette Marine Paint Facility
Unusual requests alter Marinette Marine design
Designing and constructing a unique and ergonomically enhanced paint building in less than 10 months was a monumental task for engineers and crews.
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Mitchell reconstruction succeeds with shrewd decisions
Mitchell Interchange
The little things made the difference on the massive Mitchell Interchange reconstruction in Milwaukee County.
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The Moderne
The Moderne keeps it local
The product of Milwaukee’s “native sons,” The Moderne has a local feel from the penthouse floor contractors to the atypical foundation.
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Pius XI High School’s Father Robert V. Carney Performing Arts Center and Wendy Lindsey Theater
Pius XI plays it by ear in new theater
When the stage lights shine and the performers sing in the darkened Wendy Lindsey Theater at Pius XI High School, patrons might feel as if they are in a towering cathedral.
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Resilience Research Center
Resilience crew creates a green machine
Construction for the Resilience Research Center started far deeper than is typical for a project.
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Rogers Memorial Hospital Experiential Therapy Inpatient Treatment and Child & Adolescent Centers
Hospital replicates look and feel of home
On the western edge of Upper Nashotah Lake sits what looks like a stately English manor: a cluster of large, redbrick buildings stylized with white trim, ornate columns and multi-pane windows.
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Selig-Joseph Theater
Theater caps Milwaukee park’s revival
The Selig-Joseph Theater in Milwaukee represents a departure from the ordinary both in its design and its symbolism for a neighborhood.
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The Stream, Edgewood College
The Stream saves the tree
The builders of The Stream, Edgewood College’s new visual and theater arts center in Madison, relied on an arborist, an archeologist and an architect to get the job done right.
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Summerfest South End Development-Phase II
Summerfest sets its next stage
If the nine permanent stages dotting Summerfest were the national acts and the Marcus Amphitheater was the headliner, then the south end stage of the grounds was the band still paying its dues.
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UW-Eau Claire W.R. Davies Student Center
‘Every student’ inspires UW-Eau Claire
Who is Laura?
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UW-Madison Biochemical Sciences Complex
Research complex balances old and new
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new Biochemical Sciences Complex was built for the future while protecting the site’s past.
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UW-Madison LaBahn arena
Findorff turns theory into LaBahn’s reality
It took a couple of years, but the German student’s BubbleDeck suggestion finally paid off for J.H. Findorff & Son.
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UW-Whitewater Laurentide Hall
Project gives college a new home
From the two walls of windows in her fourth-floor office, Mary Pinkerton’s view of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus can stun visitors.
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The Watermark
Persistence pays off at Green Bay’s waterfront
Green Bay locals weren’t shy about their skepticism of potential interlopers unfurling a new vision for an aged section of their downtown waterfront.
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Westlawn Gardens
Construction team rebuilds Westlawn from the ground up
The Westlawn Gardens construction team proved that, sometimes, the best way to revive a struggling neighborhood is to knock it down and start over.
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Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Family Care Center
Crew rescues St. Michael’s site from the flood
When Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare closed St. Michael Hospital in Milwaukee in 2006, the property’s future was a big question
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Wisconsin Energy Institute
Sustainable UW building enhances collaboration
Sparks of insight often emerge out of the blue, but they’re no accident at the Wisconsin Energy Institute.
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The Women’s Community Inc. Shelter Facility
Women’s Community perseveres for new home
Staff members and designers at The Women’s Community got their happy ending: a shelter for domestic violence victims along with community support illustrated by 1,000 wall signatures.
