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Schools Are Our Foundation: Generating Revenue in a Collaborative Way
November 30th, 2011
HMC/School Advisor’s Alex Parslow will be presenting with Charter Oak USD and Fresno County Office of Education at the CSBA Annual Conference in San Diego, Calif. this week.
Schools Are Our Foundation: Generating Revenue in a Collaborative Way
Thursday, December 1, 2011
San Diego Convention Center
LL Workshop [FF] Room 1B
10:00 a.m.
Foundations are increasingly becoming a viable alternative for funding, helping to fund vital programs, such as summer enrichment sessions and others that would otherwise be cut from the budget. Learn how one district has created a vibrant foundation. Attendees will learn how to form and sustain financial partnerships with consultants, businesses, colleges, universities and alumni through the use of foundations, and receive the foundation’s toolkit with important collateral such as handouts/brochures, results page, major donor list, current financials aligning with budgets and defined need to support a consistent message.
Presenters: Brian Akers, Board Member, and Mike Hendricks, Superintendent, Charter Oak USD; Michele Cantwell-Copher, Executive Director, The Foundation at Fresno County Office of Education; and Alex Parslow, Chief Executive Officer, Charter Oak Partners in Education Foundation, and Vice President Pre-K—12 Education, HMC Architects
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Posted in Pre-K–12 Education,Speaking Engagements
Kelly Olson Joins HMC Architects as Director of Marketing and Business Development Strategies
September 27th, 2011
HMC Architects is pleased to welcome Kelly Olson as Director of Marketing and Business Development Strategies. Olson will oversee marketing and business development activities for the firm’s core markets, while implementing business development strategies in support of HMC’s strategic goals.
Olson has nearly 20 years of marketing and strategic planning experience. Before joining HMC, Olson served as the vice president for western region business development at AECOM, a global leader in providing professional technical and management support services for a variety of markets out of Los Angeles. She participated in AECOM’s transition from independent operating units into a single AECOM brand and re-alignment of resources into market disciplines. Olson was also responsible for business development processes, leadership in key strategic pursuits, and facilitation of integration efforts for newly acquired firms.
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AIALA: Designing Healthier Lifestyles Symposium
September 27th, 2011
The AIA Los Angeles Chapter, with support from LA County Department of Public Health and the Los Angeles Department of City Planning, will host a half-day symposium on October 7, 2011 to highlight opportunities to design communities that promote greater physical activity and equitable access to healthier lifestyles.
The symposium will bring together architects, policy makers, planners, urban designers, developers and healthcare professionals to discuss innovative strategies to design projects that will help to prevent childhood obesity and chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers and asthma.
Friday, October 7 (8:00 AM – 12:30 PM)
Ronald F. Deaton Civic Auditorium
LAPD Police Administration Building
100 West First Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Posted in Speaking Engagements
What’s Next for Green Building?
September 21st, 2011
We grabbed our camera and caught HMC’s Pablo La Roche, Director of Sustainable Design, to respond to Greenbuild’s question: what do you think is NEXT for green building, sustainability, and our planet’s prosperity?
Greenbuild is accepting submissions for the #GBNEXT video contest until September 28, 2011. For more information about their video contest, click here.
Posted in High Performance Architecture
HMC ArchLab Microsite Launches
September 8th, 2011
HMC Architects is proud to announce the official launch of http://archlab.hmcarchitects.com, which paves the way for HMC to share ongoing research publicly. Progress made through HMC ArchLab will provide the industry with an open source of information for designing beyond sustainability. The microsite highlights HMC’s sustainable projects, ongoing research/results, services, and blog posts from the HMC ArchLab team. Our over-arching goal is to move beyond today’s accepted sustainability guidelines and standards to advance environmentally positive design.
Posted in High Performance Architecture,News Releases
Contract Magazine: Torrance Memorial Medical Center Preps for New Tower
September 8th, 2011
Construction on a replacement tower at the Torrance Memorial Medical Center in Torrance, California, is on track to begin in October. Designed by HMC Architects, the $300-million project will serve as a welcoming face for the facility, as well as its centerpiece. Read the full article from Contract Magazine.
Posted in Articles & Publications,Healthcare
Architect Magazine: Charles Dilworth Joins HMC
August 30th, 2011
Longtime Studios’ west coast managing principal Charles Dilworth is leaving to join the San Francisco office of HMC. J.K. Dineen reports that Dilworth’s expertise in public architecture, corporate headquarters, and interiors will be added to the office’s strengths in higher education and criminal justice gained through its earlier merger with Beverly Prior Architects. Read the full story from Architect Magazine.
Posted in Articles & Publications
Architect Dilworth Leaves Studios for HMC
August 29th, 2011
Architect Charles Dilworth, the longtime managing principal of Studios’ west coast operation, is leaving to join HMC Architects. Read the full article from the San Francisco Business Times.
Posted in Articles & Publications
Healthcare Design Magazine: AIA Selects Three Projects for National Healthcare Design Awards
August 22nd, 2011
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital.
Built
Seattle Children’s Bellevue Clinic, Bellevue, Washington
NBBJ
Unbuilt
UCLA Outpatient Surgery and Oncology Center, Santa Monica, California
Michael W. Folonis, Architects
HMC ArchitectsRead the full article from Healthcare Design Magazine.
Posted in Articles & Publications,Awards,Healthcare
OCRegister.com: Newport-Mesa middle schoolers to get space of their own
August 22nd, 2011
It will take about three years and $31 million, but the end result is expected to please many in Costa Mesa and Corona del Mar whose wish lists included a place for middle school students to call their own on 7th to 12th-grade campuses.
The Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s most recent projects funded by Measure F money include new enclaves at Costa Mesa and Corona del Mar middle schools, both located on high school campuses. Read the full article from the Orange County Register.
Posted in Articles & Publications,Pre-K–12 Education
