ENRBest Projects & Best of the Best
Regional project awards across every state, DC and Puerto Rico, judged in 18 categories from airport/transit to sports/entertainment, plus special awards for safety and sustainability. Regional winners advance to the national round.
- Reach
- Regional → national
- Run by
- ENR
- Disciplines
- Civil · Bridge & Structural · CEI & Inspection · MEP · Municipal · Water & Wastewater
Who enters
Any member of the project team — owner, designer or contractor — can submit, and entries name the whole team.
Categories include
A sample, not the full list — these programs restructure their categories between years. ENR publishes the current one.
- Airport/Transit
- Highway/Bridge
- Water/Environment
- Energy/Industrial
- Health Care
- Specialty Construction
- Sports/Entertainment
- Excellence in Safety (special award)
- Excellence in Sustainability (special award)
The route, start to finish
- 01Enter in one of ENR's five regional editions
- 02An independent jury of design and construction leaders judges each region against five criteria, safety, innovation and teamwork among them
- 03Category winners are entered automatically into the national round
- 04A national jury picks Best of the Best from the regional winners
What it signals when you’re hiring
Metro Associates’ own read, not ENR’s.
ENR is read across the industry, so a Best Projects win is the award most likely to be recognised by someone outside the winning discipline. For a candidate it is also the easiest credential to verify — the citations are public and name the firms involved.
Roles whose work ends up in an entry like this
- Construction Manager
- Resident Engineer
- Project Executive
- Design Manager
We staff the firms that enter. We don’t enter.
Metro Associates is a recruiting firm, and a recruiting firm is not eligible for an engineering award. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a winner of the Best Projects & Best of the Best. The ENR name and mark belong to ENR, shown here to identify the program it runs. What we do is place the engineers whose work goes into entries like it.