Durr Heavy Construction
Earns National Excellence
in Construction Award from
Associated Business and
Contractors
Washington, DC (March 9, 2011) –
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today announced that Durr Heavy Construction, LLC’s, work on the SciAcademy project in New Orleans, La., has earned the company an Eagle Award in the Other Construction - $2-$100 million category of ABC’s Excellence in Construction Awards. Durr Heavy Construction’s representatives received the award Feb. 22 during the 21st annual Excellence in Construction Awards celebration at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Orlando, Fla.
“ABC congratulates Durr Heavy Construction for its exceptional work on the SciAcademy project,” said Michael D. Bellaman, ABC president and CEO. “This project is an outstanding example of the innovation and commitment to superior craftsmanship that embody merit shop construction.”
The Excellence in Construction awards program is the industry’s leading competition, developed to honor innovative and high-quality merit shop construction projects and safety programs. The award honors all construction team members, including the contractor, owner, architect and engineer. The winning projects, selected from entries submitted from across the nation, were judged on complexity, attractiveness, unique challenges overcome, completion time, workmanship, innovation, safety and cost.
This year's competition was open to all construction projects completed by ABC member firms in 2010.
Despite the addition of $1.7 million of work to the original contract, Durr completed a new school consisting of 37,000 square feet of renovated modular trailers in just 60 days.
A panel of industry experts served as the competition’s judges. This year's panel included representatives from the Design-Build Institute of America, Engineering News-Record, the American Institute of Architects, and the National Association of Women in Construction, and representatives from higher education, among others.
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) is a national association with 75 chapters representing more than 23,000 merit shop construction and construction-related firms with nearly two million employees. Visit us at www.abc.org.