PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK - Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that one of the company’s projects has been recognized by Engineering News-Record (ENR) as one of the magazine’s 2016 Best of the Best Projects.  The award will be presented to Hill at ENR’s Best of the Best Projects Awards Banquet to be held on April 14, 2017 at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City. The award-winning project was the $2.4-billion No. 7 Subway Line Extension, a 1.5-mile, two-track underground rail system that extends west and then south from the subway line’s former end point at Times Square to new lay-up tracks at 11th Avenue and 25th Street.  A new terminal station, the 34th Street-Hudson Yards Station, was built under 11th Avenue to accommodate the new tracks. The extension brought subway service to the far west side of midtown Manhattan for the first time.  Hill, together with joint venture partners LiRo and HDR, acted as construction manager for the project on behalf of its owner, MTA Capital Construction. ENR’s 2016 Best of the Best Awards recognize the pinnacle of design and construction achievement in the entire U.S. among projects completed between May 2015 and June 2016.  The nomination process included entries for more than 700 projects submitted to the regional Best Projects competitions. In each of the 10 regions, panels of judges selected the regional winners in 20 categories.  Once the regional winners were chosen, the top winners in each category from each region moved up to the national competition.  A new set of judges examined each winning project in an effort to distinguish the best of the best in terms of teamwork, safety, overcoming challenges, innovation and quality.  The 20 national award-winning projects will be featured in more depth in the March 3, 2017 issue of ENR.  Also in that issue, the editors of ENR will select one of the 20 projects as Project of the Year, which won’t be revealed until the issue date. “We are extremely honored to be receiving this award,” said John Milano, P.E., Senior Vice President and Northeast Regional Manager with Hill’s Project Management Group.  “We congratulate the MTA and our entire joint venture team for this very successful project,” added Milano.