Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Ellerbe Becket
Ellerbe Becket is one of the most respected architecture, interiors and engineering and firms in the world. With a 100-year legacy, Ellerbe Becket has an amazing ability to stay ahead of the ever-changing marketplace. The professionals work for their clients' success in an environment that demands specialty knowledge, collaboration and innovation. In fact,Ellerbe Becket is guided by a simple, yet powerful vision: [SUCCESS] without limits. It's what gets Ellerbe Becket out of bed in the morning and drives to deliver high quality buildings with ingenious solutions to client challenges. Over the years the Ellerbe Becket name has become synonymous with outstanding hospitals and clinics, stadiums and arenas, heating and cooling systems and mission critical facilities.
And Ellerbe Becket extends to higher education, workplace and interiors, and the government and corporate sectors. The design and construction industry is changing constantly. Yesterday's impossibilities are today's standards. In this dynamic environment, Ellerbe Becket leads the way.
Ellerbe Becket enters its second century as one of the world's preeminent firms, offering architecture, interiors and engineering services. The firm's collaborative, studio-based approach has a single-minded focus: producing outstanding buildings that serve their clients' needs and cultural framework.
Formed through a merger between Minnesota-based Ellerbe and California-based Welton Becket & Associates, the inherent strengths of Ellerbe Becket's approach have resulted in its solid reputation as a firm that leads large, complex projects, in areas such as workplace environments, commercial and mixed-use development, healthcare, sports and venue, and higher education. Because Ellerbe Becket professionals carefully consider context—the culture, the city, the market forces, the time, place, and history—as part of their design process, the result is elegant solutions in all 50 United States and more than 20 countries.
Steadfast in the pursuit of innovation through design, through its history Ellerbe Becket has contributed to significant changes in the way buildings serve people, informing and influencing architecture around the globe. As important, the centennial is representative of the firm's real sustainability – its ability to sustain a business, to attract and retain talented employees, to design buildings that endure, and to foster positive change in the community over a century of practice.