Texas Construction Best of 2004 Awards
Forty-six firms submitted more than 90 projects for this year's annual Best of 2004 awards competition. An independent panel of judges reviewed the entries and chose 50 projects as this year's winners.

By Eileen Schwartz

Texas Construction's Best of 2004 awards competition marks the eighth year the magazine has called on contractors, designers and other Texas-based firms to submit entries for best projects completed in 2004.

We are pleased to present the 50 winning projects chosen by our independent panel of judges as the best designed, built and renovated projects around the state.

This year we received more projects than in any previous year, with more than 90 projects spanning 19 categories from 46 construction, design and specialty companies. The growing number of entries demonstrates the importance the Texas construction and design industry places on this awards competition.

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This year, projects were evaluated by a jury of prominent architects, construction professionals and industry leaders. They were:

• Gary C. Devin, architect and Austin chapter president of the Construction Specification Institute.
• Geoff Gibson, architect and project manager for the University of Texas at Austin.
• Hans VanWinkle, retired deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and director of the Construction Industry Institute.
• Kyle Montgomery, executive director of the Texas Masonry Council.
• Luci Roberts, president of the National Association of Women in Construction.
• Frederick Steiner, dean of the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin.
• Robert Studard, Austin deputy district engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation.

We are grateful to this year's judges for their time and careful consideration of each project's merits.

The awards are Texas Construction's way of paying tribute to the dedicated and industrious individuals and teams in the Texas construction industry. We want to thank all the companies that submitted entries in this year's competition.

Using a numerical grading system from one to five, the judges scored each project on five criteria: construction/design innovation, solutions to challenges, project management, client service and safety.

Winning projects were determined in four categories. Judges Awards were determined by the panel to be the best of all the entries; Best of Awards were given to the projects with the highest scores in each category that received three or more nominations; Awards of Excellence were awarded to projects scoring 4.0 or above; awards of merit were given to projects scoring between 3.5 and 3.9.

This year, two projects tied for the Judges' Award, 12 projects earned Best of Awards, 18 projects scored high enough to win an Award of Excellence and 18 entries earned an Award of Merit.

The following pages showcase the winning projects. The information and images were taken from the project submissions and represent edited versions of the elements provided to the judges for evaluation.

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