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Founded by architect Sheldon Smith in 1853, our “born on” date might suggest that we`re a traditional design and engineering firm, but we left old-fashioned mindsets behind decades ago. Today, SmithGroup is an award-winning, multi-national organization that employs research, data, advanced technologies and design thinking to help clients solve their greatest challenges. Working across 19 offices in the U.S. and China, our network of 1,300 experts is committed to excellence in strategy, design and delivery—giving rise to new and innovative processes and methodologies that are redefining the way we work. Our integrated practice offers depth in all disciplines serving the built and natural environment, including architecture, engineering (coastal, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing), landscape architecture, urban design and environmental science. Our specialists—from artists and engineers, to nurses, workplace strategists and beyond—develop beautiful, sustainable, future-focused solutions for healthcare providers, science and technology organizations, higher education and cultural institutions, urban environments, diverse workplaces, mixed-use and waterfront developments, and parks and open spaces. Blending artistry, technology, planning, research and strategy, we partner with clients to up-end disruptors redefining their businesses and solve challenges impacting their worlds. Whether tasked to develop a business model, workflow processes, a campus master plan, a building, an energy model, or a strategic plan, our integrated team of experts relentlessly explores and refines until they arrive at a solution that realizes success at every scale of a project. Our ability to blend aesthetics with performance, sustainability, and resiliency to create a better tomorrow—for clients, employees, the community, the environment, and our collective future—has earned recognition from top-ranking institutions, publications and design authorities the world over.
Providing customers with exceptional systems knowledge to meet all project requirements. Representing HVAC manufacturers worldwide our product lines support the latest energy, sustainability, and comfort standards.
RETTEW, ranked by Engineering News-Record magazine as one of the top design firms in the U.S., provides a wide range of environmental, engineering, surveying, planning, and related consulting services. Since 1969, RETTEW has grown from a single, four-person firm to more than 350 dedicated professionals, including engineers, planners, surveyors, landscape architects, and environmental scientists who collaborate to provide integrated answers to the challenges our clients face. We control costs and accelerate schedules by offering complete in-house solutions to your projects. Featuring multiple service families, which comprise more than 100 different services, RETTEW efficiently manages projects with those key results in mind.
Founded in 2007 by Brad DeHays, Connect Real Estate specializes in real estate portfolio management. Connect provides development, management and brokerage services for residential and commercial real estate while partnering with Connect Construction to stabilize and maintain real estate assets. The firms vertically integrated platform includes transaction services, asset management and property management. Connect Real Estate has made its name in Columbus as an urban-infill developer and the foremost authority in the region on the adaptive reuse and preservation of historic properties. Connect has demonstrated time and again its commitment to restoring buildings of historical value to Central Ohio neighborhoods and has been lauded by community leaders for its removal of urban blight and vision in taking on difficult rehabilitation projects other development companies would deem too challenging to pursue. The development team at Connect Real Estate believes in the importance of honoring history and takes pride in reviving relics of the past and making them operational for the 21st century.
Since our founding in 1921, Epstein has been a trusted building solutions consultant for a wide variety of clients in the commercial, industrial and public sectors. The depth and range of our portfolio includes projects as diverse as iconic high-rise office buildings to intricate and complex industrial processing facilities to intensive transportation infrastructure assignments. We believe that the richness of our portfolio affords us a distinct perspective on the built environment, which in turn, enriches our skill set to produce creative strategic solutions that deliver value to our broad client base.