It happens every year; ENR's Year in Construction Photo Contest judges find the final elimination round the most difficult. The judges must fight for their favorite photos and debate over which should go into print and which should be cut. This slideshow shows all the photos that almost made it into print and were so good, we wanted to give them some play.
Runners Up for the Year In Construction Photo Contest
This photo by Brenda Sander was taken while the Iron Worker was radioing the crane operator with instructions for placing the next beam.
Concrete workers pour the mud slab for the section of the Gateway Tunnel that will be under the Hudson Yards project in NYC.
Timothy Schenck
In this photo, you will see men and women constructing a 13 foot wide rebar cage which, upon completion, will be used in one of 4 CIDH piles. These massive foundations will eventually support a bridge which will provide transportation over several heavy and light rail lines. The subcontractors building this cage practiced safety first by constantly communicating to one another and by wearing proper PPE. Not only did their communication promote safety but it also promoted an efficient production rate, a 'rhythm' one could say.
Kaisha Plambeck
A Panama Canal Expansion Program worker walks his way through the upper chamber of the Pacific Third Set of Locks project after a heavy rain. Just as it happened during the original construction of the Canal, one hundred years ago, the Panamanian inclement tropical climate still poses a challenge for the labor force in the construction site.
Lina Cossich
Like veins, these iron bars shape the heart of the piles supporting the new bridge that is being built in the Atlantic side of the Canal. At the end of the iron tunnel, two workers examine the structures that will be part of the 4.6 kilometers long bridge.
Lina Cossich
Cutting with Thermal Lance: As the Administrative Project Manager for American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), I'm documenting the demolition and reconstruction of the Strand Theater on Market Street in San Francisco. I caught this shot on one of my daily walks through the construction site as rebar is installed for the concrete slab of the 120 seat flexible event space.
Manabu Hirata
Welder: I was on site early morning getting progress photos and loved how the light, color, and contrast all came together in this image.
Robert Umenhofer
Ready for concrete: I was taking progress photos for the owner and grabbed this shot of a worker walking across the deck right before the concrete was about to be poured.
Paul Turang
Knowing When to Let Go: A worker takes a line from a tower crane in preparation for removal of a wall form at the UCSD Altman Clinical Translational Research Institute.
Bruce Heimbach
A photo of the Bay Tunnel site for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
Robin Scheswohl
The Ave 62 Trunk Sewer Project consists of approximately 34,000 lineal feet of 33-inch and 42-inch diameter gravity sewer pipeline. The Project is a master plan project that will provide gravity sewer service to several developments within the WRP 4 service area. The sections of VCP that could be rehabilitated were using what is called cured-in-place pipe or CIPP process. The remaining portion of the project was finished using centrifugally cast glass fiber reinforced pipe systems made by the Hobas pipe company.
Robert Keeran
Column Climbers: Carpenter crew Hanging off forms for the main gantry crane of the powerhouse of the hydro-electric plant in Smithland KY (AMP).
Mark Brocker
Steel worker on a project site connects the steel
Tania Landauer
Hardhat, Carpenters Local 24: I usually look out for carpenters with interesting hardhats. This one was found on a jobsite in Connecticut.
Ellen Webber
Deep Rock Tunnel Connector: An electrical engineer surveys some of the newly installed cabling and conduit stretching down a new boring at the Deep Rock Tunnel Connector (DRTC) outside of Indianapolis, Indiana. At more than 250 feet below ground, the tunnel system will store more than 200 million gallons of storm water and sewage during and after wet weather, and then slowly release the flow to the wastewater treatment plant when capacity becomes available. When the project is complete, sewage overflows into Indiana waterways will be significantly reduced, and water quality will be vastly improved for the area.
Robb Williamson
Sparks fly!: Photographer, Lauren Adams was sent on a night job to capture the construction progress for the 295/46/I-76 Direct Connection project. The project will provide a direct connection for I-295 through traffic, as well as add additional connections from Route 295 to Route 42
Lauren Adams
This photograph taken from Istanbul Metro Project of Dogus Construction by Batuhan Nazar Salihoglu
Batuhan Nazar Salihoglu
An iron worker guides the set of a girder 85 feet above the Hoosic River in Schaghticoke NY.
Dennis Lee
Active project site utilizing the Drone for effective project documentation and aerial images.
Tania Landauer
A laborer triumphantly lifts a piece of broken concrete, part of a demolished building that will be recycled into the Hills, a design feature on the new section of not-yet-opened parkland on Governors Island.
Timothy Schenck
While walking in the East Side Access caverns under Grand Central I was astounded by the labyrinth of planks and rebar that made up the floor of the cavern. This worker navigated them with ease.
Rehema Trimiew
To prepare for the opening, workers clean the multiple panels that make up the Sky Reflector-Net from within the basket of their specialized lift.
Rehema Trimiew
We were working on a power facility in the SE. I was on a routine site visit with my camera and thought this was an interesting perspective.
Jeffrey Hill
Hayward Baker was contracted to strengthen retaining walls before replacement of a bridge over I-64 in St. Louis. This is the drilling crew for that job.
Michael Daft
Underneath Norsborg, Stockholm, Sweden is building a new train depot for the Stockholm Subway System. Pictured here is an NCC worker walking down one of the tunnels that soon will store trains.
Erik Martensson
I enjoy watching both concrete being poured as well as the crew that does the concrete flatwork. This photo does a nice job of showing the coordination needed by the flatwork crew to make sure the job is done right. Really like the faces of each member of the flatwork crew showing their focus while doing their jobs and feel this was captured well in the photograph.
Paul Vassalotti
Crew of workmen pours cement for new track and platform surfaces for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) East Side Access mega-project under Grand Central Terminal.
Patrick Cashin
Shortly after sunrise, workers set highway deck panels into place onto what will be the newly rebuilt Interstate 35E in Dallas, TX. We were shooting both stills and video on this assignment, and I had just finished with the video sequence when I reset the camera to grab this still frame. I really liked how the sun was just beneath the panel, and seeing the silhouetted forms of the workmen and cranes against the sky.
David Murphy
I got up before sunrise and met up with Babek Rad, a PHD structural engineer from AECOM for a full day of photography of the project. I have spent a lot of time around airplanes and helicopters in my line of work, but I had never seen one of the largest, heavy-lift helicopters. It was pretty impressive to see it at work. Witnessing the construction workers so high up the towers, completing their work like another regular day at the office, was equally impressive.
Robb Williamson
While photographing Consigli employees in our Maine office, I captured Consigli Field Carpenter, Roland Jutras, striking a commanding stance which perfectly conveyed his serious approach to his work.
Robert Umenhofer
Knapick briefly says he was on a site visit when he snapped this photo.
Paul Knapick
I was descending the tower crane after watching the sunrise on this mat pour. Pacific Structures was subcontracted for the concrete on this Suffolk project at 340 Fremont St. in San Francisco. As I descended I noticed workers setting anchor plates on the top of the rebar framework. I used my telephoto lens to shoot down from about 4 levels up on the crane. I really enjoyed the depth of the rebar on this project as it was nearly 18 feet deep in some places. Which I feel this photo gives the sense of.
George Baker
As the Administrative Project Manager for American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), I'm documenting the demolition and reconstruction of the Strand Theater on Market Street in San Francisco. I caught this shot on one of my daily walks through the construction site as rebar is installed for the concrete slab of the 120 seat flexible event space.
Denys Baker
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