Award of Merit, Retail/Mixed-Use Deveopment: Dubai Harbour

Situated on the Dubai waterfront between Bluewaters Island and Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Harbour covers 1.85 million sq m and includes complex underground utilities, arterial roads, flyovers, bridges and a monorail. 

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Award of Merit, Heath Care: Hong Ngoc Phuc Thuong Minh General Hospital

This 16-story hospital in Hanoi is the result of several first-time achievements. It is the first hospital in Vietnam to implement the UK’s strict Health Building Note guidelines, which provide best practices for design and planning in health care facilities.

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Best Project, Environmental: Ethiopia Addis Ababa River Side Green Development Project

Because of its sensitive location near the Prime Minister’s office, this river improvement and public greenspace project in the Ethiopian capital had to forgo typical stone blasting in favor of specialized large-scale earth blasting and excavation to remove 210,000 cu m of stone to develop key areas of the park.

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