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Oceanside Unified picks architect for theater
February 14, 2012 :: San Diego Union-Tribune The Oceanside Unified board of trustees on Tuesday unanimously selected an architect from among five finalists to design the Oceanside High Performing Arts Center. The winning firm was Harley Ellis Devereaux, which presented a conceptual design for the theater that included copper paneling and a shared lobby for the two main performance halls slated for the facility. The school district's budget for the... more
Harley Ellis Devereaux presents new concepts for Chicago’s Navy Pier as part of Team X
February 3, 2012 :: On February 1, Team X presented their proposal for the redesign of Chicago’s Navy Pier. Navy Pier is Chicago’s most popular public space and will receive a facelift in time for its centennial celebration. Harley Ellis Devereaux is a member of Team X that also includes Xavier Vendrell Studio, dataAE + XVS, Grimshaw Architects, Faithful Gould, Studio/lab, Lisa Freiman, Creative Time, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Site Design Group, ARUP,... more
Oaklawn dedicates new Surgery Center in honor of Rob Covert, Retiring President and CEO
February 2, 2012 :: Oaklawn Hospital News Nearly a thousand people turned out last Thursday to help celebrate the opening of Oaklawn Hospital’s new state-of-the-art surgical center* (in Marshall, Michigan). In addition to tours and demonstrations, Oaklawn Board Chairman Bruce Rasher dedicated the center as The Rob Covert Surgery Center of Excellence in an afternoon ceremony, in consideration of his nearly 40 years of service and 35 years of visionary... more
Harley Ellis Devereaux to Design New Workplace for ACCO Brands
January 31, 2012 :: Harley Ellis Devereaux has been selected by ACCO Brands Corporation to design their new corporate headquarters interiors located in a 189,092-square-foot office building in Long Grove, Illinois. ACCO Brands is one of the world’s largest suppliers of office products. “ACCO’s new offices will be an energetic, high-performance environment incorporating collaborative, multi-tiered input from ACCO’s staff and leadership,” according to... more
Harley Ellis Devereaux Receives Merit Award for Sustainable Design
January 23, 2012 :: Harley Ellis Devereaux received a Merit Award from the Association of Licensed Architects (ALA) for their sustainable design work on the Chrysler Phoenix Engine Plant. The engine plant, situated on a 40-acre site and spanning over 800,000 square feet in Trenton, Michigan, became the first facility nationally to achieve a United States Green Building Council LEED Gold Certification for both building and manufacturing-related process... more
Harley Ellis Devereaux Names New Associates
January 2, 2012 :: Harley Ellis Devereaux is pleased to announce the following individuals who have been selected as new Associates of the firm. Amanda L. Gorning, Associate AIA, LEED AP, Architecture + Design, Detroit Chauncy B. Hoffmann, AIA, LEED BD+C, Architecture + Design, Chicago Gary P. Leivers, RIBA, LEED AP BD+C, Architecture + Design, San Diego Sylvia C. Wallis, RA, LEED AP, Architecture + Design, Los Angeles Scott A. Withers, AIGA,... more
VDK Architects has merged with Harley Ellis Devereaux
December 19, 2011 :: Oakland, California-based VDK Architects, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s leading architecture firms specializing in the Science & Technology market sector, has merged with Harley Ellis Devereaux, a nationally acclaimed architecture and engineering practice. Harley Ellis Devereaux will relocate the employees in its current Berkeley, CA, office to the new Oakland office location effective January 3, 2012. “The merger enhances... more
Harley Ellis Devereaux Named One of the Best and Brightest Companies To Work For in the Country
December 8, 2011 :: Harley Ellis Devereaux was recently named one of the Best and Brightest Companies To Work For in the U.S. by the National Association for Business Resources (NABC). NABR has identified numerous best HR practices and provided benchmarking for companies that continue to be leaders in employment standards. The 2011 winning companies were assessed by an independent research firm which reviewed a number of key measures relative to other... more
IKM and Harley Ellis Devereaux Form Alliance to Better Service UPMC
October 3, 2011 :: IKM, an architecture firm founded in Pittsburgh, and Harley Ellis Devereaux, an architecture and engineering firm founded in Detroit, announce an alliance to continue to pursue and deliver high quality Healthcare Design for UPMC. Both firms have long-standing individual working relationships with UPMC at multiple campuses, which will continue. Additionally, the alliance will allow the firms to jointly pursue new projects at UPMC to... more
Events
Michael F. Cooper Presents on High Performance Building Design
October 1, 2011 - :: Michael F. Cooper, PE, LEED AP, Managing Principal of Harley Ellis Devereaux’s Detroit office, presented his paper on high performance building design at the October 2011 Tradeline Conference on College and University Science Facilities in Scottsdale, Arizona. Cooper’s presentation, “HVAC Decisions That Slash Operating Costs and Raise Space Utilization,” focused on the importance of a fully integrated architecture and engineering... more
Dennis M. King Presents on Mergers and Acquisitions
January 6, 2012 - :: Dennis M. King, FAIA, FESD, LEED AP, Corporate Operations Officer for Harley Ellis Devereaux, presented “Merger Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks” at the December 2011 ZweigWhite Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) Merger and Acquisition Summit in Palm Beach, Florida. King’s presentation outlined the evolution of Harley Ellis Devereaux, from their Detroit beginnings in 1908, through the prosperous post-World War II era,... more
Harley Ellis Devereaux Design Technology Leader, Brett C. Gatti, Discusses Long-Term Autodesk Revit
January 16, 2012 - :: Brett C. Gatti, Design Technology Leader for Harley Ellis Devereaux, led a discussion on “Long-Term Autodesk Revit Projects and the Autodesk Yearly Release Cycle” at the November 2011 Autodesk University Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Gatti’s discussion outlined reality in the architecture and engineering design industry, where most projects span multiple releases of Autodesk’s Revit software. His session brought together... more