SMRT Architects and Engineers Adds New Principals
Three employees have joined our ownership ranks, as we continue our growth with nationwide practices providing planning, architecture, and engineering services to clients in healthcare, justice, science / technology / manufacturing, education, corporate, and government sectors. Kristen Damuth, AIA, NCARB, CSI is known for her strong project management skills, particularly valued by her healthcare and…
Hospice Project Featured in Maine Home + Design
Hospice of Southern Maine’s CEO Daryl Cady couldn’t have said it better, “As a health care and business leader in our community, we believe caring for the health of people and the environment go hand in hand.” Bringing those same values to the design of their new building, SMRT is thrilled this new facility allows…
Flyleaf Portable Reading Room Wins Unbuilt Honor Award from Boston Society of Architects
We are incredibly honored and excited to announce that we have been awarded a 2020 BSA Honor Award for the Flyleaf Portable Reading Room in the Unbuilt Architecture and Design category. Over one year ago, SMRT entered Archhive Books’ Portable Reading Room competition, an international design challenge that tasked its participants with creating a modular book-sharing…
Day One Energy Analysis: How Early, Data-Driven Decisions Deliver Sustainable Buildings and a Lifetime of Cost Savings
Performance-based energy analysis produces valuable metrics that can influence design decisions early in the project, when design changes are easier and less costly to incorporate
Video Interview- Increasing Safety in Medical Office Buildings
Using Data Tools to Catalog, Classify, and Evaluate Facility Risk
John Tobin, AIA has been examining the important ways data analysis can help clients prioritize and make critical facilities decisions for years. Much of the focus on data tools in the A/E/C industry relates to the design and planning process, but there are many other important ways in which data analysis can help us to…
SMRT New York Has Moved
We have transitioned our New York office to the heart of downtown Schenectady, a vibrant and growing community. We believe that meaningful space inspires meaningful work, and this light, airy and open space will be a wonderful place to hang our hard hats. The office’s central location means easy access to all that the city…
7 Considerations for Planning Outpatient Facilities in a Post-COVID Care Environment
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When Abbott Had to Ramp Up COVID-19 Tests, This Contractor Had to Do the ‘Impossible’
The global need to ramp up production of COVID-19 test kits is unprecedented, requiring the delivery of complex manufacturing facilities in record time. When Abbott Laboratories reached out to their long-time contractor, Landry/French Construction Company to fit out a building, Kevin French called SMRT. His request: design and engineer a new facility in a retrofitted…
Adapting Medical Office Buildings to Increase Patient Safety and Confidence
One of the less visible, but daunting challenges to healthcare delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic: how to engender confidence and a sense of safety in patients and staff, so that people continue to receive both preventative care and non-Covid related treatments. Some studies have shown that about 1/3 of Americans are delaying healthcare during the…