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Designing Training Facilities for Our Future Workforce: A Manufacturing Month Q&A with BRPH Director of Design Jessica Roddenberry
Q: Your experience as an architect has included the full spectrum of workforce development projects… from K-12 facilities and higher education to major corporate employers. Is there anything that remains constant in designing spaces where people are learning...
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Working with Clients to Optimize Their Manufacturing Spaces: A Q&A with BRPH VP of Manufacturing Marti Watts
Q: You originally came to BRPH as a Project Manager for aviation clients. What was your favorite part about working on Manufacturing projects with these types of companies? A: The first time I walked into a 787-fuselage facility, just the overall scale of...
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Solving Manufacturing Challenges: A Q&A with BRPH Project Executive Jeff Crowe
Q: You’ve been integral as a Project Manager for a variety of manufacturing projects in recent years for clients like Gulfstream, Boeing and Triumph Aerostructures. As their AE partner, we’ve taken new approaches to their materials handling and...
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Trends and Observations in Manufacturing AE: A Q&A With BRPH Director of Lean Design and Quality Gregg Kirkendall
Vought - One of the World's Largest Autoclaves Q: Gregg, you’ve been with the firm for 17 years and you’ve had the unique opportunity to be involved as an architect or Quality Control POC on almost all of our manufacturing projects. Have you noticed any...
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Leveraging Tight Budgets and Timelines to Create Innovative Education Spaces
How does a design team transform an aged facility, a severely limited budget and a fast-track schedule into a truly awe-inspiring, state-of-the-art school designed stimulate the next generation of scientists, technologists and their teachers to achieve...
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Q&A with BRPH Director of Design Jessica Roddenberry, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP
BRPH’s new design leader finds joy in creativity and satisfaction in making connections for people. Your prized accessory is a big blue bag of Sharpies and sticky notes…what’s that about? Ha-ha! I promise I don’t work for 3M on the side. Simply put,...
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The Latest in 3D Printing and Augmented Reality Solutions – Applicable in Architectural Visualization
Imagine an experience where A/E and client teams can walk through their projects in real-time or spin buildings around on their desktops with their hands… That future is coming our way faster than one might think. Situated next to the scenic Vancouver...
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Going From Start Up to Grown Up
Growing up. In both business and life, we measure growth by how we meet challenges and adapt to change, not by our physical size. For businesses and startup companies, this can mean major cultural shifts in very brief periods of time. One day, you’re a few...
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Designing to Evoke Emotion
My professional journey started with the first office job I took in my first year of undergraduate school at an Exhibit Design firm. Their specialty was designing zoo, aquarium and visitor center exhibits. Their challenge at the time was “how to create a guest...
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Shifting Gears: Predictions for Manufacturing in the Age of Autonomous Vehicles
It's more than a buzzword - it's a reality. The proverbial foot is on the gas, and the hands are definitely off the wheel…if there is one. Still squarely in the testing phase, autonomous vehicles could start entering our roadways in higher...
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Smart Planning for Complex Space Programs
Every day our clients trust us to help them solve complex problems and efficiently execute their projects through our designs so that they can focus on their next important mission to space. Like most challenges in life, the effort taken in planning and preparation is...
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Human-Centered Design Informs the Best Client Outcomes
There are multiple ways to approach work with clients and customers. In the architecture and engineering world, the client often comes to the table with a pre-conceived notion of what they believe their company needs and wants, and they communicate that idea to the...
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