Insights & News

February 14, 2013

Incorporating effective strategies for sustainability with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

December 20, 2012

After five years of planning design and development, the 3rd District Police Station in Silver Spring, Maryland, broke ground for construction yesterday. It was an especially exciting event, as this will be the first new police station built in Montgomery County within the last 30 years.

December 13, 2012

To succeed in architecture, a design team has to be multi-dimensional in terms of its commitment and skills. We have to provide clients with more than creative architectural concepts—we need to meet requirements for budgets, schedules, functionality, sustainability, life-cycle parameters, and much…

December 13, 2012

One thing I appreciate as a project manager and now client manager for the University of North Carolina Hospital is that this is an opportunity for an engineer to contribute to the medical field. The Newborn Critical Care Center (NCCC) expansion project is one recent example. We worked with UNC's…

November 29, 2012

It's often thought that the simple solution to support police department growth would be to build a big addition. The primary issue with this approach is that, unlike other building types, police departments don't grow symmetrically. Police stations are split into a number of distinct areas driven…

November 29, 2012

While working on flood risk management projects, not only do we work with our client, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but we also work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), community officials, and levee authorities to combine data and information that will be used to…

November 1, 2012

A police HQ [Alexandria Police Station] in Virginia pays homage to its heritage as well as its sustainable future.

October 4, 2012

Police stations are complex buildings, not only because of the specialized nature of activities that take place within them or the vital need for security and access control, but also because of the need for constantly adjusted layers of privacy and propriety.

September 27, 2012

Established in 2005 by the International Union of Architects, World Architecture Day brings together the world's most distinguished architects, designers, and developers to celebrate architectural design. On October 1, this year's event will be held in London, and will include presentations, Q&A…

August 30, 2012

One advantage of working for a large firm with deep expertise in markets such as education, libraries, and law enforcement is having the opportunity to design projects that are in other parts of the country. Even though I'm currently based in Illinois, I had lived and worked in Phoenix and was…

August 16, 2012

I recently visited Dewberry's Denver office and had the opportunity to explore some of the police stations we designed for the city about ten years ago. Denver Police District Station House No. 1 served as a prototype facility, designed to blend in with the neighborhood and help promote the city's…

August 9, 2012

From the beginning of the design process for the Chester Campus Library renovation at John Tyler Community College, we wanted to utilize light and portray a feeling of openness throughout the facility. The existing library included bay windows along the entire exterior wall, but due to poor…