Sphere 2025 FIDIC Global Infrastructure Project Awards–Winner–Megaproject

FIDIC has announced the overall winners of its prestigious Project Awards for 2025 at a glittering gala dinner event held in Cape Town, South Africa on 23 September 2025.

Winners of the awards, which were presented during the 2025 FIDIC Global Infrastructure Awards Gala Dinner, sponsored by infrastructure, engineering and advisory practice, Zutari, showcase and highlight the achievements and successes of consulting engineering member firms and their clients across the globe and the important impact their construction and infrastructure projects have on social, economic and environmental quality of life around the world.

PENN 2 Redevelopment 2025 CTBUH Overall Winner–Repositioning Award

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PENN 2 Redevelopment 2025 CTBUH Overall Winner–Repositioning Award

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TSX Broadway – Post-Tensioned Transfer Girders and the Raising of the Palace

TSX Broadway and the Palace Theatre Renovation together are a project with numerous complex pieces, each of which required unique design approaches to solve complex problems using time-tested techniques but applied in innovative ways. The Palace Theatre and the former DoubleTree Hotel sat at 1568 Broadway, the intersection of 7th Avenue and 47th Street, in the heart of Times Square in New York City.

Sphere Featured on cover of STRUCTURE Magazine

Sphere has been featured on the cover of the August issue of STRUCTURE Magazine (NCSEA). Severud’s Cawsie Jijina, PE, Steve Reichwein PE, SE, and Sindi Krasta, EIT shed some insight on the various aspects of the structural design of Sphere.

Sphere, the next-generation entertainment venue located just east of the Las Vegas Strip, officially opened at the end of September 2023. A 516-foot-diameter semi-spherical building rising 366 feet above ground, Sphere encloses a bowl-shaped theater for approximately 18,000 guests, seated beneath a domed roof and suspended media plane. It is currently the largest spherical structure in the world.

Sphere Casting Light on a Smart Solution

Early collaboration and integrating casting expertise into the design process from the start ensures that components align with architectural and structural goals. Having all key stakeholders from Sphere’s design-construct team, structural engineer Severud Associates, architect Populous, steel fabricator W&W | AFCO Steel, casting manufacturer Cast Connex, and erection engineer SDL, was instrumental in guaranteeing success.

Sphere awarded 2025 Ideas2 Presidential Award for Engineering Design and Construction from AISC

THE LARGEST SPHERICAL STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD is a display of groundbreaking steel innovation that has helped redefine the immersive entertainment experience. Sphere, the next-generation music and performing arts venue just east of the Strip in Las Vegas, is a 516-ft-diameter semi-spherical building rising 366 ft above ground. It encloses a bowl-shaped theater for 17,600 guests seated beneath a domed roof and a suspended media plane.

Penn2 Redevelopment awarded 2025 Ideas2 Excellence in Engineering from AISC

A MIDTOWN MANHATTAN OFFICE BUILDING needed a boost from its original 1960s form, and its steel frame lent itself to adaptation and longevity despite its age.

New steel elements incorporated at PENN 2 created a 75-ft by 450-ft addition called the Bustle that hovers 50 ft above the sidewalk on 14 dramatically sloped columns configured around an existing trainshed. Creative connections ensured the existing structure an addition do not transfer significant lateral load to each other.

CFG Bank Arena Renovation

The 60-year old CFG Bank Arena underwent a $200 million renovation that transformed the aged facility into a state-of-the-art music, sports, and entertainment venue. Originally opened in 1962, the downtown arena has been host to many events, including music, boxing, wrestling, and other sports, and is currently hosting the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) men’s and women’s basketball tournaments through 2025.

TSX – Magic on Broadway

Times Square in New York is known for many things, including its Broadway Theaters, luxurious hotels, trendy retail, great entertainment venues, and flashy billboards. In the case of TSX Broadway (1568 Broadway), the project contains all these items in one building. What makes TSX Broadway truly special is not just that it contains all the elements of Times Square in one location. How existing elements were shifted, assembled, and juxtaposed with new elements makes this Entertainment complex and hotel tower a unique structural engineering feat.

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