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Now is the Time to Get Your Projects ‘Shovel Ready’

Now is the Time to Get Your Projects ‘Shovel Ready’

With the Trump administration pushing for heavy investment in infrastructure to stimulate the troubled economy – floating the possibility of a $2 trillion stimulus plan – now is the time for communities of all sizes to start getting their list of projects ready so that they are better positioned when funds do become available.

Future Infrastructure Funding Webinar: Video & Presentation

Future Infrastructure Funding Webinar: Video & Presentation

Watch our “Future Infrastructure Funding” webinar to get the latest on the CARES 2.0/HEROES Act and get an infrastructure outlook on the stimulus package, FAST Act reauthorization, appropriations and shovel ready.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Level-Three Infectious Disease Intensive Care Unit

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Level-Three Infectious Disease Intensive Care Unit

To prepare for an infectious disease outbreak, a portion of the Surgical and Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit (SNICU) was converted into a biocontainment care space. Federal funds helped the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) create this level-three infectious disease intensive care unit.

Safely Returning To Schools & COVID-19

Safely Returning To Schools & COVID-19

This up-to-date K-12 resource includes design and mechanical considerations to help you develop your re-entry strategy while managing COVID-19.

Surface Testing For COVID-19

Surface Testing For COVID-19

In these uncertain times, peace of mind and safety are paramount especially as you plan for safe reentry into your workplace.

Returning To The Workplace: The Post-COVID-19 Challenge

Returning To The Workplace: The Post-COVID-19 Challenge

Workplace constantly evolves, but never as dramatically as this. Now, more than ever, the adaptability of workplace is essential.

Protect Your Building Enclosure During Spring Storm Season

Protect Your Building Enclosure During Spring Storm Season

As you head into spring storm season (e.g. high wind events and damaging hail), damage to the roofs of your buildings can occur.

Dealing with the COVID-19 Surge

Dealing with the COVID-19 Surge

Approaches to create safer spaces for patients, staff and visitors

Road Diet: Solving Traffic Problems with Fewer Lanes

Road Diet: Solving Traffic Problems with Fewer Lanes

When congestion on roads increases, the usual step is to widen the road and add more lanes. However, sometimes congestion is not caused by a higher volume of vehicles.

Iowa Lagoon System Upgrade Funding

Iowa Lagoon System Upgrade Funding

For Iowa communities with lagoons and tighter ammonia limits, there is technology available to upgrade and keep your lagoon without going to an activated sludge plant.

Honoring Veterans with Folded Flags Exhibit

Honoring Veterans with Folded Flags Exhibit

For your service, your sacrifice and your hard work, we thank you.

911: Resuscitating a Dead Mall

911: Resuscitating a Dead Mall

Once on the Dead Malls list, the former Sycamore Mall made a huge comeback and is now a vibrant and unique shopping and entertainment destination known as the Iowa City Marketplace.

Mall Anchor Sinks

Mall Anchor Sinks

When Sears went dark at Coral Ridge Mall, it left a large vacancy at the front door to the regional shopping center. Brookfield Properties, the mall’s owner, saw this as an opportunity to create a more dynamic retail presence.

Paul's Discount Store: Raise the (New) Roof

Paul's Discount Store: Raise the (New) Roof

When one door closes another door opens.

Marketplace at Clinton: Hole-y Retail, Big Box!

Marketplace at Clinton: Hole-y Retail, Big Box!

It’s a story familiar across America. A big-box retailer closes its door and leaves a large, dark windowless-building along a major thoroughfare.

Back from the Dead: Breathing Life into Large, Empty Retail Spaces

Back from the Dead: Breathing Life into Large, Empty Retail Spaces

“Back from the Dead” suggests that there is some kind of “Retail Apocalypse” happening in America today…and if you read the headlines, you may think that is true.

Well Certification: The Building Rating System on the Rise

Well Certification: The Building Rating System on the Rise

In today’s competitive market, recruiting and retaining talent is a top priority. Investing in that talent means companies are continually looking for ways to improve their quality of life.

Niche Services Periodic Table

Niche Services Periodic Table

As an architecture and engineering consulting firm, we provide a wide-range of services so you can pick and choose what works best for you and your project.

Designing Facilities for Safety and Security

Designing Facilities for Safety and Security

To gain a better sense of safety's place in design, it may be helpful to review common owner/architect project communication in a simplified sense.