Of course we sell services, but our most valuable resource is our people. Our people are well-qualified, creative, experienced, and internationally diversified. Our capacity to recruit great talent revolves around the appeal of our people, so the process is self-perpetuating.

We’ve created a large and diverse portfolio of buildings and places — work that speaks for itself. Collectively, it reflects a commitment to visionary design, a record of innovation and fresh ideas, and a demonstrated success with complex projects. Our people are known for well-researched, program-driven solutions aided by integrated multidisciplinary expertise and a strategic mindset. We bring global thinking to bear on projects that build communities. We are a firm with a proud heritage that has benefited through the years from entrepreneurial skills and proven success in cultivating new generations of leadership.

Shortly after the Washington office was established in the early 1990s, a new principal was introduced to focus the firm’s work on the commercial and government market sectors. The initial achievements were through private developer clients and mixed-use, urban projects such as The Navy League Building, the first Page building to achieve Silver LEED certification. 

Since it expanded its focus to the federal government design-build arena, the office has become one of the leading designers of secure office environments for the Department of State, the Army Corps of Engineers and the General Services Administration. Most notably, the Washington office has worked on more than 25 design-build new embassy or new consular compounds, and is also very active in the design of international projects for non-United States government clients in countries such as Kuwait.