ABC Awards Best National Construction Projects of 2025

SALT LAKE CITY, March 20-Associated Builders and Contractors today announced the winners of the National Excellence in Construction^® Awards-86 construction projects worth nearly $6 billion-at the 36th annual EIC Awards Gala during ABC Convention 2026 in Salt Lake City on March 19. Winners of the EIC Innovation, Design-Build, Greener Tomorrow and Productivity awards were also announced.

The EIC Awards celebrate the best in merit shop construction, honoring the most outstanding projects from 2025, including relocation of schools; renovations to convention centers, courthouses and beach resorts; and construction of science parks, apartments and hospitals, as well as honoring contractors for their remarkable achievements in leadership, health and safety, innovation and merit.

"Communities thrive when infrastructure is built and rebuilt with excellence, and ABC's EIC Awards celebrate achievements in both construction projects as well as recognizing quality, safety and innovation that these teams deliver," said 2026 Chair of the ABC National Board of Directors Thomas "Murph" Murphy, vice president of Power & Construction Group, Scottsville, New York.

"A sampling of the incredible 2025 projects include a new U.S. consulate general in Merida, Mexico; a renovation to Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center Children's Heart Institute in Houston; the relocation of the Palisades Charter High School for 2,500 California students; the Coca-Cola Amphitheater in Birmingham, Alabama, and renovating the St. Mary's University Blank Sheppard Innovation Center in San Antonio. Each project honored at the 36th annual gala is an example of ABC contractor members' remarkable achievements in leadership, safety, innovation and merit."

The EIC Awards honor each member of the construction team, including the contractor, owner, architect and engineer. The winning projects are judged on complexity, unique challenges overcome, completion time, innovation and safety.

A panel of industry experts served as the competition's judges. This year's judges included representatives from the Design-Build Institute of America, Engineering News-Record, the Construction Owners Association of America, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, the National Institute of Building Sciences, ShareBuilt, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and other select construction-related organizations nationwide.

A full list of EIC winners is available on ABC's website.

Providing employee benefits and a suite of construction-specific employer services exclusively for ABC members for 65 years, the ABC Insurance Trust is the proud program sponsor of the Excellence in Construction Awards.