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  • Molly Wagner with children from Four Thursdays event

    August 26, 2020

    Hurricane Katrina Ten Years Later: A Look Back

    Larry Olinger, Douglas Frost, Laurel McGinley, Ronald Budzinski, Molly Wagner, Ronald Artigues Jr, Mark Montgomery and Johnise Molloy

    Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina, a storm with 140mph winds and a presence of nearly 400 miles across, made landfall on the Gulf Coast. She left behind destruction of upwards to an estimated $100 billion, with 80 percent of New Orleans underwater, 234,000 homes damaged or destroyed in Mississippi…

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  • Meg Bower

    August 26, 2020

    As Rick Davidson noted in a recent blog, justice architecture is not set in stone. Rather, it evolves to fit the needs of today's civilization – one filled with redemption opportunities along the path of reintegration into society.

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  • Dewberry logo, with a stylized purple berry to the left of the company's name in bold black text

    August 26, 2020

    Interview rooms are key spaces within a police department. It's highly important that police investigators can hear the suspects they are interviewing clearly; and perhaps more importantly, that the interviewees are only heard by their intended police audience and not by others in adjacent rooms or…

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  • Energy savings of 36 percent was achieved through high-efficiency glazing, reduced interior lighting, occupancy sensors, efficient HVAC system, demand control ventilation, efficient chiller and boiler, and advanced building automation systems.

    August 26, 2020

    I recently attended the grand opening of the Livingston County Law and Justice Center in Pontiac, Illinois. The center was a major project for our firm, and involved both the Elgin and Peoria offices. Our team worked on this government facility for two and a half years, and I looked forward to the…

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  • The containers can be arranged and customized to accommodate a variety of program needs, including housing, food preparation, training, and administration.

    August 26, 2020

    One of the critical needs following a major natural disaster is the re-establishment of the “rule of law.” In order to accomplish this, there must be a solution to replace damaged courts, police facilities, and correctional centers. In the weeks, months, and years following Hurricane Katrina, for…

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  • Jim Beight

    August 26, 2020

    Lobster Cove in Massachusetts, North Dakota’s Indian Dance Lodge, Ohio’s Goodyear Airdock, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina…what do all of these landmarks have in common? They are all part of the Historic American Building Survey (HABS), the Historic American Engineering Record…

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  • Oren-Architecture-Blog-1

    August 26, 2020

    Architects have a unique job—it’s our responsibility to design a space to meet needs, or look at an existing space and imagine what it can become. That is exactly what we’re doing for a public health administration client in California right now. As is common, a building of this type needs to…

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  • Meg Bower

    December 29, 2017

    About 10 years ago a colleague in the planning field and I shared lunch and ended up discussing work. He used the word "commodity" to describe the planning industry. I struggled to understand why he felt our work was being converted into a generic product. Didn't we approach each jurisdiction as…

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  • David L Moss Criminal Justice Center

    June 28, 2017

    Bruce Henley, AIA, LEED AP and Meg Bower, MPA, AICP, LEED AP BD+C contributed to this report published by Penal Reform International and written by Dr. Marayca López and Laura Maiello-Reidy. The report explains how prison design can significantly improve the living conditions of mentally ill inmates, and discusses our work on the David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center Expansion.

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