I’m sure there are many of you like me that have been glued to the TV for the past couple of weeks watching the Olympics. While I’ve reveled in watching Michael Phelps win his eight gold medals and Shawn Johnson and Nastia Luikin take gold and silver in the gymnastics all-around competition, I have also [...]

It’s official. I have entered into the new world of building information modeling (BIM). This has been a hot topic for a while and we all know it’s coming whether we want it to or not. My firm has decided to integrate us on a project basis. We completed our first BIM project, a 450,000-square-foot [...]

Last week I was vacationing in Kansas and stopped by K-State to see first-hand the damage caused by the tornado that hit the campus on June 11. By now most of the upturned trees have been removed, the mangled cars repaired or replaced and the broken window replaced. However, there are still a few reminders [...]

For the last month, I’ve been working on a recreational center for a college campus in southern Texas. One of the dilemmas the design team faced was how to mesh the campus architecture, that is strictly Spanish colonial, with a building that is essentially a large gymnasium. During an office design review, this project generated [...]

Its hard believe that it was only two years ago I walked across the stage of Kansas State University and received my bachelor of architecture. Two weeks later I was loading up the U-haul and driving the 700-plus miles to San Antonio where I would start my life as a “grown up.” Nothing can really [...]