The South Florida AGC’s Build Florida Awards honor AGC members who build our state's most impressive construction projects. These awards will recognize projects ranging across the building, highway and transportation, utility infrastructure, and federal & heavy divisions. We use the same categories and criteria as AGC of America’s Build America Awards – this allows winners of The South Florida AGC’s Build Florida Awards to apply for national recognition by AGC of America.
Award winners will excel in the areas of:
- state-of-the-art advancement
- project management
- innovation in construction techniques or materials
- safety record
- client service
- community relations
- environmental sensitivity
- partnering excellence
Award Categories are as follows:
- Building (under $10 million) | Regardless of project delivery system your completed project total cost was under $10 million.
- Building ($10 million to $75 million) | Your completed project was a traditional building that may include office buildings, hospitals, schools, libraries, airport terminals, museums, multifamily housing and others that cost between $10 to $75 million.
- Building ($76 million to $125 million) | Your completed project was a traditional building that may include office buildings, hospitals, schools, libraries, airport terminals, museums, multifamily housing and others that cost between $76 to $125 million.
- Construction Management (under $99 million) | Your project was completed using the Construction Management project delivery system where your total percentage of volume of work performed with your own field personnel was under five percent.
- Federal & Heavy | Your completed project was for the Corps of Engineers, NAVFAC, Air Force, GSA; any type of marine construction or dredging projects for ports and inland waterways; flood control and prevention projects for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Bureau of Reclamation; or any industrial plant construction.
- Highway & Transportation | Your completed project included highways, bridges, airports, runways/taxiways, lane expansions, interchange improvements, new interchanges or alignments, overpasses, pedestrian bridges, road tunnels, transit and railroad projects.
- Highway & Transportation (under $10 million) | Regardless of the project delivery system your completed project total cost was under $10 million.
- Utility Infrastructure | Your completed project was related to water and wastewater, underground utility, site preparation and other types of public works construction, such as public facilities, gas, water, sewer or electrical. Construction or rehabilitation is typically underground, but is not all-inclusive and may be open, cut or trenchless.
- Building ($126 million or more) | Regardless of project delivery system your completed project total cost was over $126 million.
- Construction Management ($100 million or more) | Your project was completed using the Construction Management project delivery system where your total percentage of volume of work performed with your own field personnel was under five percent.
- Construction Management Civil | Your civil project was completed using the Construction Management project delivery system.
- Design-Build Building | Your building project was completed using the Design-Build project delivery system.
- Design-Build Civil | Your civil project was completed using the Design-Build project delivery system.
- Environmental Enhancement | Your project included environmental enhancement, wetland mitigation, ground water clean-up or required reclaiming or remediating an environmentally contaminated site (e.g., brownfield, superfund, illegal dumping site, and abandoned mine).
- International | Your project was completed outside the U.S. AGC member companies have been building major construction projects throughout the world for many years in all types of overseas civil works construction, including dams, airports, highways, pipelines, industrial plants, commercial and institutional buildings and water/wastewater facilities.
- Themed Entertainment
The South Florida AGC’s Build Florida Awards will recognize member projects throughout the state of Florida. We will be recognizing the best project overall in four different regions:
- South Florida
- Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade, Monroe Counties
- Gulf Coast & Panhandle
- Central Florida & Atlantic Coast north of Palm Beach
Award categories will recognize regional winners should submissions from more than one region be tendered, with one overall winner being selected.
To qualify for The South Florida AGC’s Build Florida Awards a contractor must be a member in good standing as of January 16th, 2024. Project submissions must be completed and paid by Wednesday, January 10th. Project submissions must use our electronic submission system.
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