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2025 PTI Awards Winners Announced

The awards recognize exceptional projects that demonstrate innovation, cost-effectiveness and aesthetics in post-tensioned concrete design and construction

PTI Project Awards 2025

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May 12, 2025

The Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) has announced the winners of the 2025 PTI Project Awards, which were presented at the PTI Awards Dinner during the annual PTI Convention, held at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown in Phoenix, Arizona. These awards recognize the project of the year, awards of excellence and awards of merit in the categories of post-tensioned bridges, buildings, industrial or special applications, parking structures, repair, rehabilitation and strengthening and slab-on-ground construction.

The PTI Project Awards program recognizes exceptional projects from around the world that demonstrate innovation, complexity, cost-effectiveness and aesthetics in post-tensioned concrete design and construction. The project entries are juried by an independent panel of industry professionals.

The 2025 Project Award winners are:

Project of the Year:

  • One River North in Denver, Colorado (submitted by Jirsa Hendrick) – One River North, a 16-story apartment building in Denver, masterfully combines architectural innovation and natural elements with post-tensioned concrete to create a striking canyon-like façade and seamless urban design.

Bridges:

  • Award of Merit: Schuylkill River Trail Extension from Christian Street to Grays Ferry Crescent, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (submitted by PKF Mark III) – Pennsylvania’s first three-span cable-stayed concrete bridge, enhancing city connectivity with sustainable, post-tensioned design.

Buildings:

  • Award of Excellence: One River North (see Project of the Year description)
  • Award of Merit: Koula, Honolulu, Hawaii (submitted by BASE) –  A 41-story tower featuring modular post-tensioned slabs for architectural flexibility and efficiency, recognized for sustainable urban innovation.

Industrial or Special Application:

  • Award of Excellence: Reviving Heritage: Surfside's Journey from Historic Landmark to Luxury Haven, Surfside, Miami, Florida (submitted by Kline Engineering and Consulting) – This adaptive preservation project transformed a 1936 landmark into a modern luxury residence with advanced hybrid post-tensioning systems, seamlessly blending historical integrity and contemporary design.
  • Award of Merit: Rodoparkki, Helsinki, Finland (submitted by RakenneStudio Oy / Structural Studio Ltd) – A hillside parking solution using post-tensioned beam-slab systems to address unique environmental and logistical challenges.

Parking Structures:

  • Award of Excellence: California State University, Los Angeles, Parking Structure E, Los Angeles, California (submitted by Walker Consultants) – A five-level, 2,200-space facility incorporating sustainable features such as rooftop solar panels and EV charging stations, built with post-tensioning for efficiency and innovation.
  • Award of Merit: Circa Garage Mahal, Las Vegas, Nevada (submitted by Superior Post Tension) – An eight-story urban parking structure, noted for its open-plan, post-tensioned design and integration with the Circa Resort.

Repair, Rehabilitation and Strengthening:

  • Award of Excellence: The Landmark Plaza, Los Angeles, California (submitted by Structural Technologies) – A complex retrofit transforming a parking structure into a vibrant foundation for high-rise living and public green space, demonstrating advanced post-tensioning for urban redevelopment.
  • Award of Merit: TSX Broadway, New York, New York (submitted by Structural Technologies/VSL) – An ambitious transformation in Times Square, featuring post-tensioned transfer girders to support vertical expansion and historic preservation.

Slab-on-Ground:

  • Award of Excellence: APEX Motor Club Trackside Garages, Maricopa, Arizona (submitted by Superior Post Tension) – The nation’s first luxury trackside garages using innovative staged-stressed, joint-free post-tensioned slabs to support high-performance vehicles.
  • Award of Merit: Amity Regional High School Track and Field Facility, Woodbridge, Connecticut (submitted by Classic Turf Company) – High school track and field facility that was reconstructed using joint-free post-tensioned slabs for sustainability, durability and long-term performance.

Congratulations to all the 2025 Project Award winners! To find more information about these projects, download the 2025 PTI Convention Awards Booklet.

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