Earlier this month, category winners of ENR's 12 annual Global Best Projects competition were announced, with project teams cited by a panel of industry judges for outstanding design and construction efforts of the past year from across the world.

From the 35 winning projects located in 19 countries, three have now been selected by ENR editors as finalists for Global Project of the Year, from a short list of candidates that the judges provided.

While all projects chosen from the record number of entries exhibited excellence in designing and building internationally, these three projects excel in almost all criteria by which projects were judged: design and construction quality, innovation, safety performance, industry and community benefit and overcoming challenges.

This year, everyone worldwide has a chance to celebrate these global construction achievements at ENR's no-fee virtual Global Best Projects awards event presentation on December 19.

To learn more about the event, please visit www.enr.com/global-best-projects and for free registration. click here.

In addition, all winning projects will be spotlighted in greater detail in ENR's Dec. 16 issue.