Services

From a feasibility study for a board to two hundred rollout locations, and the expert testimony when a project goes wrong.

Design

Architectural design
Long-standing return clients, one-off buildings and prototype rollouts, backed by thorough construction documents.
Interior design
Space planning, programming, furniture and fixtures, finishes, custom millwork and lighting.
Adaptive re-use
Award-winning conversions of churches, mansions and firehouses into new programs.
Historic preservation
Two City of Buffalo Preservation Board awards, and decades of SHPO coordination.
Landscape design
An in-house landscape designer, from single-family homes to high-profile restaurants.
Sustainable design and LEED
Registered the first LEED project in Buffalo and led The Cheesecake Factory’s first LEED certification.

Site planning
Zoning, infrastructure, utilities and existing conditions, to test whether a site can carry the project.
Feasibility studies
Site, code and program studies that end in a budget and a concept a board can approve.
Space planning and programming
Square footage, adjacencies, circulation and mechanical needs, including high-security and complex retail.
Code analysis
Zoning ordinances, land use plans and building codes, solved without compromising the design.

Prototype development
Dozens of prototypes developed and maintained for Tops, Wilson Farms, The Cheesecake Factory, ESPN Zone and NOCO.
Multi-site rollout
Ground-up or in-line, two locations or two hundred, with quick-turn construction documents.
Design / build
Fifteen years of design-build delivery with trusted contractors.
Construction administration
Site visits, field directions and punch lists that keep the build on schedule and budget.
Construction management
Bidding, negotiation and agency approvals, start to finish.
Cost estimating
In-house estimators who build the cost plan and act as an independent third party for lenders.
Fixture plan coordination
BIM fixture plans that auto-populate equipment and finish schedules for retail and grocery.
Building information modeling
In ArchiCAD since our first virtual building in 1994.

Construction monitoring
Independent document, budget and draw reviews with site inspections for commercial lenders.
Construction mediation
Disputes resolved on projects from one million to over twenty-three million dollars.
Expert witness testimony
Research, reports, record review and testimony for plaintiff or defense.
Forensic architecture
Finding the source of building distress and planning remediation or monitoring.