Barton Malow Company is committed to providing innovative construction services to higher education institutions. Our clients set high standards for educating America’s next generation of leaders, and Barton Malow delivers every time. In the Southeast, we recently completed award-winning facilities for Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Gateway University Research Park, and the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Barton Malow’s inclusive construction management approach fosters open communication. By involving all project stakeholders in planning, we avoid conflicts and deliver state-of-the-art facilities within budget and ahead of schedule. Barton Malow is leading the industry by incorporating Building Information Modeling (BIM) as part of day-to-day planning and project management. We are also stewards of the environment and incorporate sustainable building practices, whether or not a project seeks LEED certification.

Founded in 1924, Barton Malow maintains its headquarters in Southfield, MI. The firm is American-owned by its employees and offers full service offices in Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, and Illinois. In addition to higher education, Barton Malow provides professional services to the following markets: healthcare, sports & entertainment, industrial & manufacturing, energy & environmental, and federal.

Established in 1912, Beck has been providing quality consulting services for 100 years. Beck has grown from being a General Contractor to a firm providing Real Estate Consulting, Architecture, Technology, Sustainability, Construction Management, and Design/Build services for: public and private higher education institutions, including student centers, wellness and recreational facilities, educational buildings, administrative facilities, student resident halls, life science buildings, museum & art facilities. As an Integrated Enterprise, Beck focuses on a more efficient delivery process by leveraging our design and construction abilities with the most advanced technology to minimize waste, streamline schedule and maximize scope of work for the owner.

We do two things. What sets us apart is our unusual adeptness at both. We are big idea people. We are also experts at taking those ideas and making them realities.

These dual strengths have earned HGOR a international reputation for planning and design. Since 1992, we have been invited to contribute to a remarkable range of project types over a wide geographic area.

We rely on a strongly held belief to ensure the integrity of our work. For us, a project that is fully realized demonstrates a perceptive balance of Social, Economic and Environmental considerations. We call it our SEE Philosophy.

HGOR is structured around four studios serving particular client bases: Workplace, Campus, Community and Urban Design. Each offers an unmatched depth of focus. Each boasts a core team of specialists with superior knowledge of their arenas.

All of the studios benefit from the free exchange of ideas and experience within the firm. This internal spirit of collaboration extends to other design team members and characterizes the open communication and cooperation that we enjoy with our clients.

New South Construction Company (New South) is a mid-sized general contracting firm founded in March of 1990 by Doug Davidson, who serves as president. We have full service offices in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. Since our first project, twenty-one years ago, New South has believed that service to our customers would provide and establish a path for our company’s future. The majority of our projects today consist of repeat business and referrals, proving we have undoubtedly succeeded in our earlier mission.

In the beginning, New South acquired a solid, select and enviable group of clients, which included: Delta Air Lines, The Coca-Cola Company, Emory University, and General Mills. Twenty-one years later, we continue to provide construction services for each and every one of these customers. Today our services cater to a wide range of clients and their needs, these markets include: universities, private clubs, K-12 schools, places of worship, criminal justice, aviation and industrial all of which have helped to round out our company’s portfolio.

Our philosophy and principles have resulted in our continuous growth and success, however despite our growth, we remain client driven rather than revenue driven. We continue to provide construction services for the same companies we worked with during our first year in business, which speaks for itself in the quality of work and service provided by our company.

SpawGlass is a Texas-based general contractor, construction manager, design/builder and civil contractor providing exceptional service to clients with corporate, higher education, healthcare, government/public and senior living/campus housing projects.  Founded in 1953 by Louis Spaw and Frank Glass, the company has a lasting commitment to provide the highest standards of quality and service to clients, a safe and enriching work environment to employees and support and involvement in the community. With more than 500 employees statewide and offices in Austin, Houston, North Texas, San Antonio and South Texas, SpawGlass is 100 percent employee owned.

VHB/Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., provides transportation, site/civil infrastructure, and environmental resources solutions in support of growth and development initiatives for colleges and universities nationwide. With 22 offices located throughout the east coast, VHB offers the focus and personal attention of a small consulting firm backed by the resources of an 850-person, multidisciplinary company, including more than 85 LEED-accredited professionals.  Since 1979, VHB has partnered with more than 200 institutions, both public and private, ranging from an enrollment of less than 1,000 students to those in excess of 40,000, within physically diverse settings from rural to urban. By incorporating an innovative, sustainable design approach within our practice, we create environments that endure.

The Association of Texas College and University Facilities (TCUF) Professionals was founded in 2009 as a wholly volunteer, 501(c) (3) organization, dedicated to the development and continuing education of facilities professionals working in Texas Higher Education. In cooperation with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and with both public and private universities, colleges, community colleges, and health sciences centers, the TCUF Conference is biennially produced with the mission to disseminate information and exchange ideas in areas of common interest at various locations around the State of Texas. The association may invite representatives of various state and federal agencies as well as other outside professionals to participate in discussions and to assist in the solution of problems and issues common to all facility professionals.

ATC Group Services Inc. (ATC) is a nationally-recognized professional engineering and environmental consulting firm specializing in geotechnical, construction materials testing, special inspections and environmental engineering services. ATC’s primary focus is to help clients successfully manage construction, environmental, and health and safety events. Through a network of offices across the country, ATC’s engineers, scientists, technicians and inspectors provide solutions from below ground surface and up through the lifecycle of a property. Nationally, ATC employs over 1,500 professional, technical and support personnel in 65+ offices in 39 states.

Year after year, Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranks ATC as the number one asbestos and lead, and among the top 50 environmental construction engineering and testing consultants in the USA.

For additional information, visit www.atcassociates.com, phone 337-234-8777.

Balfour Beatty Construction is recognized as one of the Nation's leading construction management firms, with more than 75 years of experience and leadership. Our goal is to provide our clients with the best construction experience they have ever had, through implementation of innovative preconstruction and construction approaches, which consistently exceed industry standards and client expectations. Our higher standards have earned Balfour Beatty a reputation for service, performance, quality and achievement. Balfour Beatty Construction operates five full-service divisions headquartered in Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, Washington D.C., Charlotte, and Dallas, with nearly 30 office locations throughout the country. Each one is focused on providing local service to major markets across the United States and program management services nationally and internationally with clients seeking a single point of contact for their global platforms. Balfour Beatty provides preconstruction, general contracting, at-risk construction management, design-build, and program management services and is consistently ranked among the best in the industry.

Brailsford & Dunlavey is a program management firm with comprehensive in-house facility planning capabilities, dedicated to serving colleges and universities. B&D helps clients develop quality of life facilities including student housing, athletics/recreation facilities, student centers, and collegetown developments. B&D has participated in the planning/implementation of more than 50 renovated facilities and more than 150 new facilities on campuses nationwide.

Brasfield & Gorrie is one of the nation's largest construction firms, providing general contracting, design-build, and construction management services for a wide variety of markets, including commercial, institutional, government, healthcare, municipal, industrial, and wastewater treatment. We serve clients from offices in Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas, Jacksonville, Nashville, Orlando, and Raleigh. Brasfield & Gorrie has approximately 2,300 employees, and its 2010 revenues were $2 billion. Brasfield & Gorrie ranks #215 on the Forbes list of "America's Largest Privately Held Companies," and Engineering News-Record ranks the firm 28th among the nation’s "Top 400 Contractors" for 2011.

Broaddus Planning is an award-winning firm, recognized as one of the nation’s premier campus planning, urban design and facility programming practices. The Austin, Texas-based firm has developed an expertise in delivering visionary projects for higher education, institutional, medical, research and government clients. Every Broaddus Planning project involves a collaborative process integrating sustainable planning principles and specific implementation strategies.

Broaddus Planning was established in 2003 as a division of Broaddus & Associates, an innovative program management firm providing services for owners developing design and construction projects. With its origins rooted in an owner-oriented approach to projects, Broaddus Planning adheres to the notion that there should be a genuine connection between planning and implementation.

Clark Nexsen is one of the largest full service architecture, engineering, interior design, landscape architecture and planning firms in Virginia. Widely recognized as leaders in the design profession, Clark Nexsen maintains a continuing commitment to provide superior design and services to our clients. Since 1920, this commitment to excellence has allowed us to win numerous design awards. With offices in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Macon, Atlanta, and Brunswick, Georgia; Norfolk, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia; and Washington, DC, Clark Nexsen employs a staff of over 560 dedicated professionals. The firm specializes in college and university buildings, government facilities, offices, commercial, healthcare, retail, food-service, recreational, industrial, and manufacturing.

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Cooper Carry is a national design firm offering architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, urban planning and environmental graphic design. The firm’s specialty practice areas include education, hospitality, retail, office and corporate facilities, laboratory, transit, mixed-use developments, and planning. This multidisciplinary approach allows the firm to integrate living, working, learning and leisure space into an environmentally friendly and holistic design. Founded in 1960, Cooper Carry has offices in Atlanta, GA; Alexandria, VA; New York, NY; and Newport Beach, CA.

At Cooper Carry we study the way people Live, Play, Work and Learn in order to create spaces that fit our everyday lives and yet leave indelible marks on our memories. Our firm has a history of creating places that reflect the character and culture of the local community. As the world around us continues to expand, we continue to seek creative ways to link together all the aspects of our lives in developments that mirror our need for the sense of community.

The mission of Cutler Associates is to provide value for our customers. In the design and construction industry, this is achieved through creative solutions to complex problems. With all related disciplines under one roof, Cutler gains a better understanding of the key issues of a project. This understanding leads to better solutions. As a single source for services, we have more precise control over the implementation of these solutions.

We believe a collaborative approach is the best route to a successful project.

Flad Architects is a national architecture, planning, and design firm known for designing technically complex buildings for academic institutions and private industry. The firm is a leader in innovative research environments based on the principles of collaboration, sustainability, biosafety, and multidisciplinary science. Flad has strategically developed depth and expertise in the planning, programming, and design of science-related facilities for the academic, corporate, and healthcare environments. Our practice is focused on clients who want to create effective teaching and research environments. The firm, founded in 1927, has an overall staff of over 275 in six regional offices.

Founded in 1946, Hardin Construction Company, LLC is a leading general contractor and construction manager in the United States and has consistently been in the forefront of its safety and sustainable practices in its industry for years. With offices in Atlanta, Ga., Tampa, Fla., Orlando, Fla., Raleigh, N.C., and Austin, Texas, Hardin Construction provides comprehensive construction services including general construction, construction management, design-build, and renovation. A privately-held company, Hardin Construction provides these services in markets such as retail, hospitality, residential, office, education, healthcare, public assembly, governmental and institutional. For more information, visit www.hardinconstruction.com

At Heery International, we bring an extraordinary depth of talent, creativity and technical skills to facility and infrastructure projects. Now starting our 58th year, Heery has expanded in new and dramatic ways over the past several years through acquisitions, new services, new markets and new offices, redefining what it means to be responsive, resourceful and diverse.

As a full-service architectural, engineering, interior design, program management and construction management firm, Heery’s resources include more than 900 professionals located throughout the United States and overseas, a history of stable leadership, and financial strength. Our commitment is to provide the very best design and construction expertise throughout the planning, design, construction and occupancy process.

Recognized for service excellence by a broad spectrum of professional organizations and industry publications, Heery’s talented multidisciplinary staff regularly exceeds client requirements -- adding value at every turn.

Atlanta-based Hendessi & Associates provides facilities and real estate consulting services exclusively for colleges and universities. Hendessi & Associates assists a variety of higher education institutions by providing comprehensive development solutions, strategic financing plans, and program management services for on-campus and off-campus facilities. Hendessi & Associates is committed to understanding the national issues facing higher education and the challenges that require creative and strategic facilities solutions in order to serve the mission of the institution. Our customized services address the changing lifestyle demands of students and the increasingly recognized educational advantages of modern living and learning facilities.

Our team has successfully completed comprehensive facility and housing plans and development management services for the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Southern Polytechnic State University, Gordon College, Albany State University, Georgia College and State University, Georgia Southwestern State University, Middle Georgia College, Norfolk State University, North Carolina Central University, and Georgia State University, among many others.

Our University related experience at Hendessi & Associates includes a variety of academic and academic support facilities such as student activity/wellness centers, town hall/community centers, academic halls, continuing education centers, conference centers, parking decks, libraries, and student housing facilities. Our services include program management, owner representation, planning/design management, construction management, facilities management, strategic space allocation planning, and feasibility studies.

The engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firm of Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. was founded in 1967 by transportation planners and traffic engineers. Today, Kimley-Horn is a full-service consulting firm with more than 1,500 employees in 50+ offices nationwide, offering comprehensive services in the following practice areas:

• Land Development
• Environmental Sciences
• Sustainable Design
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• LEED Program Management
• Transit
• Transportation
• Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture
• Water Resources
• Parking Planning

Kimley-Horn’s clients have access to a versatile staff of professional civil, transportation, and structural engineers; planners; landscape architects; and environmental scientists. The firm is owned and operated by practicing professionals.

The Kirksey Collegiate team has designed projects for 20 different colleges and universities and is proud to be a sponsor of the SCUP Southern Region. Specializing in sustainable architecture, interior design and master planning, Kirksey designs high-performance, healthy buildings for all of our clients. With more than 26 million square feet of LEED® projects certified or underway, Kirksey has achieved major milestones within our community and have developed a basicGREEN™ program that prescribes sustainable design measures to be implemented on EVERY project, regardless of LEED Certification and at no added cost.

Lord, Aeck & Sargent is an award-winning architecture firm serving clients in scientific, academic, historic preservation, arts and cultural, and housing and mixed-use development markets. Its professional staff of architects, planners, interior designers, heritage preservationists and construction cost managers provides services from feasibility studies, master planning and programming to design, construction contract administration, conditions assessments and facility management support.

Mackey Mitchell Architects, established in 1968, has been bringing architectural vision and integrity to college campuses for over 30 years. Our national reputation as a leader in campus design is a testament to our commitment to providing environments that are livable, sustainable, and appropriate to their surroundings. Mackey Mitchell's designs foster an atmosphere where students learn to balance their lives, equally rich in academic, recreation, and social activities.

Moseley Architects is a full-service design firm, with six offices in the Southeast, including two offices in the Carolinas. From the firm’s beginnings as a one-person practice in 1969, Moseley Architects has grown to a firm of more than 180 members. Our growth has been achieved through sound management practices and a tenacious commitment to providing clients with high-quality design and service, exemplified by the fact that more than 75 percent of the firm’s projects are for repeat clients. Moseley Architects offers a broad range of services including: Master Planning, Climate Action Planning, Greenhouse Gas Inventories, and Design and Programming services.

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Established in 1983, RMF Engineering, Inc. is a 230-person consulting firm specializing in building systems and infrastructure engineering. The firm is nationally recognized for new and renovation building projects, system analysis, master planning and the design of utility generation and distribution systems. Offices are located in Raleigh, NC; Mt. Pleasant, SC; Baltimore, MD; Charlottesville, VA; Albany, NY; Boston, MA; Columbus, OH; and Atlanta, GA.

RMF provides mechanical/electrical engineering services, as well as central utility plants and distribution systems, for educational, research, healthcare, institutional and commercial facilities. Additional services include environmental (Air Pollution) engineering, civil and structural engineering, HVAC systems commissioning, plant operations, operation and maintenance training, emissions testing and non-destructive testing.

For more than 60 years, Rosser International, Inc. has been an integral voice in the design community. Our work throughout the world has responded to specific client needs with innovative ideas that fit contextually within surroundings while creating a lasting image.
 
A full service architecture, engineering and program management firm, Rosser has specific expertise in planning, designing and managing the construction process for campuses and higher education facilities including student activity and recreation centers, sports stadia and arenas, classroom buildings and administrative offices. Rosser is headquartered in Atlanta, with offices in Savannah, Georgia, Lexington, Kentucky and the Gulf region.

Sizemore Group is an architectural firm based in Atlanta, GA.  We plan and design memorable places by taking space and giving it spirit.  This is the higher purpose of our architecture.  Expressions include:

• A succession of ever evolving state of the art facilities for education
• An ever increasing portfolio of renovation and adaptive re-use of existing facilities.
• “Green” design expertise recognized nationally for over 30 years.
• Strong track record of producing integrated planning solutions that tie Program : Facilities :

• Funding

With Higher Education as a DPR Construction core market.  We are ranked in the top 50 general contractors in the country over the last 10 years, we are a national commercial contractor and construction manager that has grown with our customers by delivering measurably more value. Whether it is a multi-million-dollar technical facility or a conference room renovation, we execute every project with relentless accountability. We listen to your goals. We develop strategies based on your business. We track our performance. We do everything we can to earn your trust and build great lasting relationships.

McCarthy (www.mccarthy.com) was founded in 1864 as a family construction business. We are now a 100% employee owned general contractor and construction management firm. McCarthy has completed more than 200 projects on nearly 50 campuses ranging from single-use facilities to nanotechnology and high containment laboratories to campus-wide capital improvement projects. As the 5th largest education builder (ENR 2009), we understand issues are complex, schedules tight and the risks substantial. We offer better options, such as faster and safer execution, clear cost/benefit solutions and less stress for you. We are builders first and that makes all the difference.