Celebrating McCarthy's2024 ENR Best ProjectsWinners

Each year, Engineering News-Record (ENR) honors the best construction projects from each of ENR’s 10 regional editions, judged using a variety of criteria including safety, innovation, quality and teamwork across 18 specialized categories. Regional winners then go on to be considered for the national Best of the Best Projects. McCarthy is honored to share that once again many of our projects were selected as 2024 Regional Best Project honorees. Congratulations to the teams who helped make these projects successful!

ENR California

YouTube Campus Expansion
Award of Merit, Office/Retail/Mixed Use
San Bruno, CA

In collaboration with Google, the fully integrated design build team undertook the YouTube Campus Expansion in San Bruno, CA. This endeavor aimed to achieve Climate Positive impact across three new buildings while fostering an outstanding work environment for creative, high-tech workers. Google stressed the importance of creating the right spaces and services for YouTubers to thrive. The result is a campus that inspires, promotes a sense of well-being and wonder, and creates a connection to the world around those who would be inhabiting the campus daily. 

Tarzana Reimagined
Best Project, Health Care
Project of the Year Finalist
Tarzana, CA

Tarzana Reimagined is the largest healthcare construction project undertaken in the San Fernando Valley. The project had a new replacement tower, main entry building and parking structure, a seismic retrofit of the existing campus and various ancillary campus improvements. 

ENR Midwest

Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building
Best Project, Higher Education/Research
Award of Merit, Safety
St. Louis, MO

The Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building at the Washington University School of Medicine is one of the largest and most advanced research facilities in the U.S. The 11-story building brings together over 100 research teams. Project elements include a 609,000-sq.-ft. research building and an 1,850-vehicle parking structure. A new two-story, 24,775-sq.-ft. utility plant houses five 1,250-ton chillers, five cooling towers and two 3,000-kilowatt emergency power generators. Construction of an elevated pedestrian bridge spanning 360 ft. connects the new building to the campus’ existing link network.

ENR Southwest

Northwest Phase II Extension Light Rail Transit
Best Project, Airport/Transit
Best Project, Excellence in Safety Award
Phoenix, AZ

The 1.6-mile extension of track and addition of a bus transit center, two at-grade stations, a parking garage, and Valley Metro’s first elevated Light Rail Transit station mark the successful accomplishment of a joint-venture partnership between Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. and McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. The partnership known as Kiewit-McCarthy, a Joint Venture (KMJV) completed the Northwest Phase II Light Rail Extension to Valley Metro’s primary public transit system with multiple interconnected scope components that expand the rail to a new demographic of Valley residents, supplying innovation, art, and public resources. 

Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport Authority Terminal Modernization
Award of Merit, Airport/Transit
Mesa, AZ

The 30,000-square-foot, five-gate terminal modernization at Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport (PMGA) enhances the airport’s infrastructure for its growing annual passenger count. The new energy-efficient terminal replaces nearly 14-year-old infrastructure with greater seating capacity, ADA accommodations, retail space, and an outdoor courtyard.  The terminal modernization was completed in just 18 months as the project team constructed a temporary Sprung Structure three-gate terminal on the apron to sustain ongoing operations while maintaining efficient, undisturbed construction.

Sun Streams 3 Solar
Award of Merit, Energy/Industrial
Arlington, AZ

McCarthy served as the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor for Longroad Energy’s (Longroad) Sun Streams 3, a 215-megawatt (MW) ac/285 MWdc solar facility with an AC-Coupled 215 MW/860 megawatt-hour (MWh) Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). Sun Streams 3 is Longroad’s first BESS within the Sun Streams complex, tucked in the Sonoran Desert roughly 40 miles west of Phoenix. Sun Streams 3 produces enough energy to power the equivalent of 90,000 American homes and has helped to abate over 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere.

Reno-Tahoe International Airport Ticketing Hall
Award of Merit, Renovation/Restoration
Reno, NV

As part of its MoreRNO program, the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority (RTAA) wanted to enhance the passenger experience and improve operations by expanding and upgrading the Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO) Ticketing Hall. The project involved a 35,000-square-foot renovation, including a 10,000-square-foot addition. The primary goal of the project was to solve the issues of congestion and passenger flow, which included enhancing the passenger experience through enlarging and completely renovating the new “front door and gateway” to the Reno-Tahoe region. The Ticketing Hall was designed to meet RTAA’s design guidelines.

ENR Texas/Louisiana 

Port of Beaumont Main Street Terminal 
Best Project, Specialty Construction
Beaumont, TX

The project included the demolition of a failed dock structure that collapsed over a decade ago and the construction of a new state-of-the-art general cargo dock. The location of the Port of Beaumont along the Texas Gulf Coast makes it the number one strategic military port in the country. In building a new terminal, the Port had a goal of increasing its general cargo handling capacity by more than 15%. McCarthy began work on the Main Street Terminal in February of 2022 and achieved substantial completion in two years - several months ahead of schedule.