Press & Insights

New facilities expand healthcare opportunities and access for veterans

With the strongest and fastest growth of any segment, the healthcare market is more critical than ever to flooring manufacturers. Results from Floor Focus’ designer survey in this issue show that 18% of top projects among surveyed architects and...

Will architecture firms meet looming sustainability deadline? Here’s what DFW experts said

With less than a decade left, The American Institute of Architects 2030 Commitment seems to be running out of time. More than 700 firms have signed...

Construction on Lawrence’s new $19.5M police headquarters hits halfway point

The city’s new $19.5 million police headquarters is now halfway complete, and police representatives say the project could far exceed original goals...

Face Time: Diamond Bronson

After launching two small businesses—including her own design firm—to survive the Great Recession, Bronson joined Hoefer Welker in 2014 and found her...

Star Trek meets Aloft meets Admirals Club: Behind this new Euless office development

A first-of-its-kind Class A medical office building will soon be breaking ground in Euless. Dallas-based Dominus Commercial is developing the...

A Commitment to Sustainability [Podcast]

Tony Schmitz, vice president and senior project manager, Hoefer Welker, discusses the firm’s determination to join the AIA 2030 Commitment, the...

Michael Overall: Historic rehab ‘untangles’ downtown Tulsa’s old Petroleum Building

A 1970s renovation enclosed the courtyard to form a 12-story atrium in a 10-story building, with glass elevators descending into a basement two...

Local Architect Uses Texas Civic Project to Exemplify Sustainability of Design

Tony Schmitz, vice president and senior project manager at Dallas-based Hoefer Welker, has been leading the architecture and design firm’s...

How to Make a Home More Sustainable

Goals change; countertops fabricated from imported granite and showers lined with sprays that endlessly shoot water from head to toe are no longer at...

North Little Rock Justice Center Groundbreaking

City officials, including Mayor Joe Smith, gathered in North Little Rock, Arkansas on Monday, January 13 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new...

Las Colinas office project opens with second phase on the way

A just-completed Irving office project is the first new speculative building in that area of Las Colinas in almost two decades. T2V Properties just...

Resiliency: Future-proof building design

Resiliency has become a buzzword in sustainability circles and the green industry. Although used often, resiliency has many connotations and means...

JE Dunn wins two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected Kansas City-based JE Dunn Construction as the contractor for two projects worth a total of $45 million....