ABOUT THE CHICAGO BUILDING CONGRESS MERIT AWARDS

There is no other association activity that more perfectly defines the mission of the Chicago Building Congress than its Merit Award Program.  The Merit Awards have truly celebrated the building industry since 1956 by singling out the outstanding projects in greater Chicagoland built during the past three years.  Merit Awards are presented for construction in the following nine categories:

• Education
• Healthcare
• Residential/Hospitality
• Commercial Construction under $50M
• Commercial Construction over $50M
• Renovation and Adaptive Reuse Under $15M
• Renovation and Adaptive Reuse Over $15M
• Infrastructure or Industrial Construction
• Interior Build-Out

Enter Your Construction Project in the 2020 Merit Awards

The Chicago Building Congress Merit Awards Committee invites CBC members and non-members to submit entries for the CBC’s 2020 Merit Awards competition. This program recognizes the most outstanding construction projects from the past three years in the Chicagoland area.

ENTRY DEADLINE – ENTER your project: Monday, Dec. 16, 2019

PROJECT DETAILS DEADLINE: Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020

(Projects must be completed by Dec., 31, 2019

Categories for 2020

The Merit Awards Program is entering its 64th year – check out these categories which acknowledge the construction industry’s ever-changing landscape.

• Education
• Healthcare
• Residential/Hospitality
• Commercial Construction under $50M
• Commercial Construction over $50M
• Renovation and Adaptive Reuse Under $15M
• Renovation and Adaptive Reuse Over $15M
• Infrastructure or Industrial Construction
• Interior Build-Out

CLICK TO ENTER YOUR PROJECT

Congrats 2019 Merit Award Finalists & Winners!

COAA/CBC

Burbank School District 111 Luther Burbank Elementary School – Winner!
Chicago Architecture Center
Moxy Chicago Downtown

Infrastructure Construction

41st Street Pedestrian Bridge over Lake Shore Drive – Winner!
CTA Wilson Station Reconstruction

Interior Build-Out

Captive Resources
CNA Corporate Headquarters Relocation
C.H. Robinson
Tribune Media & WGN Radio Interior Build Out
DLA Piper – Winner!

New Construction Under $15M

412 N. Wells – Winner!
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Outpatient and DayRehab Center
Brother James Gaffney, FSC, Student Center
Loyola University Flex Lab Engineering Building
Searle Visitor Center

1956  Prudential 

1957  Old Orchard Shopping Center

1958  Inland Steel

1959  Illinois State Tollway

1960  Michael Reese Hospital

1961   McCormick Place

1962  United Of America

1963  United States Gypsum

1964  Continental Plaza

1965  Central District Filtration

1966  Univ of Chicago At Chicago Circle

1967  Oak Brook Development

1968  Lake Point Tower

1969  One First National Bank

1970  McCormick Place On The Lake

1971  Woodfield Mall

1972  James Roscoe Miller Campus

1973  Sears Tower

1974  One Montgomery Ward Plaza

1975  Standard Oil (Amoco)

1976  Water Tower Place

1977  Cultural Center

1978  Academic Facility

1979  Dearborn Park

1980  New City YMCA

1981  Kroc Diagnostic Treatment Center

1982  Chicago Board Of Trade Addition

1983  333 West Wacker Drive

1984  McDonald’s Office Campus

1985

• One Financial Place
• Chicago Hilton And Towers

1986

• 190 South LaSalle
• Chicago Theatre

1987 Center For Professional Education

1988 Center For Professional Health

1989 United Terminal

1990

• Riverway
• North Pier Chicago

1991

• Canal Center
• Hotel Inter-Continental Chicago

1992

• City Front Place
• Harpo Studios

1993  

• Walsh Grand Headquarters
• Marshall Fields State Street

1994 

• Chavez Elementary School
• Sears Tower
• 2000 Wacker Drive Streetscape

1995 

• Cook County Juvenile Center
• Finkl Urban Manufacturing
• Chicago Commons Nia Family Center

1996 

• Monadnock Building
• Children’s Memorial Medical Center
• Fourth Presbyterian Church
• Williams Science Center Addition

1997 

• McCormick Place Expansion
• Calumet Deep Tunnel/Reservoir
• CTA Green Line Renovation

1998 

• HCSC (Blue Cross Building)
• Chicago Terminal Radar Approach
• Carl Schurz High School Restoration
• Little Village Academy

1999 

• Living Coast/Brookfield Zoo
• Brooks Homes Modernization
• Barat College Library
• Elmhurst Art Museum

2000  

• Adler Planetarium/Sky Pavilion
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital
• Schaumburg Baseball Stadium
• Goldblatt’s Building Renovation
• Lake City Convention/Visitors Center

 

2001  

• Pharmacia Life Sciences Building
• Bachelor Enlisted Quarter
• Shedd Aquarium/Amazon Rising
• North Shore Senior Center

2002  

• UBS Tower
• Glenview Park Center
• 360 North Michigan Renovation
• Jubilee Family Resource Center

2003  

• Homan Square Community Center
• Levy Senior Center
• Midwest Ctr For Green Technology
• La Rabida Children’s Hospital

2004  

• Soldier Field
• Oak Park Public Library
• York High School
• Lookingglass Theatre

2005  

• Lincoln Park Zoo Regenstein Center
• Baps Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
• Kendall College Riverworks Camps
• Patty Turner Senior Center