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Masters Joins Firm
Please join us in welcoming Erin Masters, NCARB, NCIDQ, LEED AP, to our growing firm! Erin is an architect and an interior designer with a robust background working with various project types for higher education, civic, healthcare, institutional, and commercial clients. Before joining Eckenhoff Saunders, she held multiple roles as a project architect, project designer,…
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Dickson Joins Team
Eckenhoff Saunders is pleased to welcome Jonathan Dickson, AIA, to our growing firm. Jonathan specializes in healthcare design and has over 20 years of experience in planning, design, and construction administration. A licensed Illinois architect, Jonathan’s expertise includes project management for replacing hospitals and multi-phase renovations/additions for existing facilities. Departmental experiences range from ambulatory care…
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Office Snapshots
InnerWorkings (INWK), is a global marketing execution firm serving Fortune 500 brands across a wide range of industries. INWK partnered with Eckenhoff Saunders to deliver a turn-key project and to re-imagine its headquarters located in Chicago. Learn more about the transformation of their office led by the Eckenhoff Saunders design team on the Office Snapshots…
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Education Snapshots
The Francis W. Parker School Kovler Family Libary was recently featured in Education Snapshots. Desiring to promote their progressive form of education with an equally innovative library space, this historic private school in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago undertook a complete renovation of its outdated facility. To learn more about this exciting project, please visit…
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Outstanding Project Award
The Spring 2020 Education Facilities Design Awards edition of LEARNING BY DESIGN magazine has been released featuring Sixty-Seven (67) recently completed educational facility design and construction projects from early childhood, middle school, high school, specialized education and higher education college and university environments. All published projects were judged, scored, and granted facility design awards based…
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Health Facility Management
ESA Principal Mark Nichols, AIA, FACHA, LEED AP, discusses how advanced planning, design, and construction technology helps drive building project efficiency in Health Facilities Management’s 2020 Hospital Construction Survey. Article excerpt: Along with BIM, prefabrication, 3D projection mapping, modular construction, and 360-degree photography are among the most-cited technologies for design and construction projects, according to the survey.…
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Pediatric Center Opens
Advocate Children’s Hospital (Advocate) and NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) recently announced a strategic partnership, the Chicagoland Children’s Health Alliance, to expand wide-ranging pediatric care in Illinois. As part of that new strategic alliance, Eckenhoff Saunders teamed up with Advocate and NorthShore to convert a former two-story furniture store located in Edens Plaza in Wilmette into…
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New Staff at ESA
Eckenhoff Saunders is pleased to welcome Rakan Ayyoub architectural designer, Pedro E. Marquez, architectural designer, and Christina Mazurek, interior designer to our growing team! Rakan is an award-winning, innovative architectural project designer specializing in healthcare at Eckenhoff Saunders. He has an excellent understanding of healthcare project design and cutting edge design technologies. Pedro joins ESA as a designer…
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InnerWorkings HQ
InnerWorkings (INWK), is a global marketing execution firm serving Fortune 500 brands across a wide range of industries. INWK partnered with Eckenhoff Saunders to deliver a turn-key project and to re-imagine its headquarters located in Chicago. The firm worked closely with INWK to integrate architectural elements resulting in a bright, active space combined with open office…
Designer Joins ESA
Eckenhoff Saunders is pleased to welcome Ann Nelson, Senior Architectural Designer, to our healthcare team. Before joining the firm, Ann was a staff member of Matthei & Colin Associates for twenty-five years. She primarily worked on projects ranging in size and complexity, including clinical areas, catheterization laboratories, MRI 3T, radiology, and surgery/prep. “I like…
