Proliant required an additional facility to meet the needs of their growing company. A building shell was designed that could accommodate intricate equipment and production processes, including production, packaging and storage of sensitive material. Careful attention was required to handle hierarchies of interior building pressures,...
The vacated lower level of the Human Services Building presented an opportunity for the growing Story County Community Services Department to capture additional office space as well as re-envision daily operations of staff and visitors. One of the primary challenges of the project was to provide...
This coffee house and restaurant is part of Ames’ up and coming Campustown district. With an aggressive timeline and vision to create a European-style cafe, the renovation included the phased redevelopment of two-thirds of an existing building containing multiple tenant spaces into a singular business...
Patterson Dental stands as a keystone of the Boone Business Park. The building was designed with careful consideration of interior environmental controls and perimeter envelope to facilitate storage and distribution of sensitive and hygienic equipment. Site-cast concrete panels were utilized in order to minimize the...
The Fighting Burrito, a popular late-night, fast-food burrito shop in Ames, Iowa, was looking to expand its business to downtown Des Moines. They jumped at the chance to develop this tenant improvement space in the Nationwide Insurance Building just off of Locust Street, on 13th...
Arcadia Café and its owners had a vision to bring their unique brand of home-roasted coffee and handmade pastries to Campustown near Iowa State University. Being longtime supporters of the Campustown district, the owners also sought to rehabilitate a vacant and run-down building into a...