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At a time when many developers are fleeing the stagnant office market for more profitable sectors like multifamily residential and retail, Chicago developer John Buck continues to churn out winning speculative office buildings.

The six expert judges and five editors evaluating this year's Building Team Project of the Year Awards poured over dozens of submittals to identify the projects that best exemplify the collaborative effort necessary between owner, architect, and contractor to produce buildings that exhibit architectural and construction excellence.

On November 7-9, when Chicago hosts the Greenbuild 2007 International Conference and Expo, an estimated 18,000 attendees will meet beneath the massive vegetated roof of the nation's largest LEED-NC certified building.

On a bank of the Missouri River in Omaha, Neb., an aspiring LEED Gold candidate houses offices that serve 13 states in the National Park Service's Midwest region. The Carl T. Curtis Midwest Regional Headquarters of the National Park Service, which opened in June, was delivered by a team assembled by the hometown firm of Noddle Development Co. Noddle typically develops retail and office buildings, and the Park Service facility was the company's largest GSA-leased project.

ADan Huntington, SE, PE, LEED AP Associate Principal KJWW Engineering Consultants Rock Island, Ill.

BCorey Wieseman, AIA, LEED AP Principal DLR GroupChicago

CCarol Ross Barney, FAIA Principal Ross Barney Architects Chicago

DTracy Nicholas VP Alter Construction Management Skokie, Ill.

When the Chicago Transit Authority put the finishing touches on its sparkling new, 12-story headquarters in late 2004, the 400,000-sf complex was already one of the greenest office buildings in the city.

The design and construction team for the Capitol Area East End Complex, Block 225, in Sacramento, faced tightened requirements of California's Title 24 energy code, frequent presentations to government bodies, and the need to integrate a public art program into the project.

Showplaces showcase Atlanta firm's defining niche

For Thomas Ventulett, winning the 2002 AIA Architecture Firm Award is the fruit of more than 35 years of labor. Most of that time, he has dedicated to building Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates (TVS), Atlanta, from its humble beginnings as a three-person design studio to a 265-person, $59 million multidiscipline operation today.