Participating Firms

Premium Sponsors

AECOM: As the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, we’re committed to managing our business with the utmost responsibility and to always strive for better – whether by reducing emissions, creating social value or diversifying our senior leadership and workforce. We’re planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants and program and construction managers driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world – and we want you to be a part of it.

Ayers Saint Gross: Ayers Saint Gross is an internationally recognized design firm with expertise in architecture, planning, landscape architecture, graphic design, interior architecture, and space analytics. Since our founding in 1912, we have built a reputation for designing environments of enduring value. The focus of our expertise and most of our work supports mission-driven clients, particularly colleges, universities, and cultural institutions. Our design approach is inspired by a critical and analytical discourse, a respect for past wisdom, a mind to future potential, and a belief that we have an obligation to leave places better than we found them. Our mission is to engage people and places to create designs that enrich our world. With over 190 professionals, we are headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland with offices in Washington, DC and Tempe, Arizona.

Baskervill: Founded in Richmond, Virginia, in 1897, Baskervill is one of the nation’s oldest continually operating architectural firms with a growing global footprint. Baskervill offers creative architectural, interior design and MEP engineering solutions to a varied client base, from hotels and resorts to civic and higher education institutions, healthcare organizations, corporate workplaces, mixed-use developments and more. Employing the proven Ask. Listen. Create. methodology, Baskervill works collaboratively with clients to design spaces that empower ideas and connect people. 

Clark Nexsen: Clark Nexsen architects and engineers provide design solutions and expertise to a wide range of markets. We believe ideas have the power to transform the world. As design professionals, it is our social responsibility to advance our communities through innovative, sustainable design. We see design as more than steel and glass; more than concrete and brick; more than lines on paper. At every intersection of every discipline we offer, our focus is on creating spaces and experiences that profoundly impact the lives of those who interact with them.

FGM Architects: We Build Community FGM Architects (FGMA) is a 75+ year-old employee owned firm with seven offices (Chicago, Oak Brook, Milwaukee, Austin, St. Louis, Reston and O'Fallon) in five states (Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Texas and Virginia). We create spaces for learning, working, playing, protecting and worshiping.

Hanbury: Hanbury is an award-winning and internationally recognized design firm specializing in architecture, interiors, and planning. The practice is grounded in meaningful connections to place and community. As collaborators in defining the built environment, Hanbury is interested in amplifying local voices, learning through listening, and co-authoring sustainable futures with the stakeholders of each project.

Jacobs - Architecture: Jacobs begins every federal design commission with an open mind, a willingness to listen, and the desire to work collaboratively with our clients in pursuit of a common goal. We do not bring pre-conceived ideas to the table, but rather a depth of knowledge and federal building experience capable of innovating solutions that are responsive and elegant. No matter how small the task, we see it as a design opportunity and have repeatedly exceeded our clients’ expectations and pushed the limits of what is possible.

Our design process is holistic, inclusive, and multi-disciplinary—an approach that results in contextually responsive buildings that echo their cultural surroundings and project the dignity and stability of the Federal government. Our exterior design approach and highly flexible interior spaces are designed to inspire and enhance the health and productivity of the people who work in them; and by thoughtfully integrating technology and security infrastructure, we design nimble, resilient workspace that can be adapted and scaled to future organizational needs and new ways of working. Most important, Jacobs understands the inherent—and profound—responsibility of transforming existing public buildings into beautiful, sustainable, and flexible workspaces that support the principles of design excellence and the mission of the federal agencies that inhabit them, while invigorating the surrounding built environment and community at large. Whether creating a new design, restoring public buildings to their former glory or undertaking a more transformative renovation to create a new sense of place within a mature urban landscape, we do it with joy and an unparalleled imagination that is the touchstone of our highly diverse design team and its award-winning body of work

JDavis: JDavis connects communities through design by creating places that bring people, neighborhoods, cities and regions together. It is our mission to create stimulating, functional and sustainable places through a collaborative approach. Central to our philosophy is our commitment to listening to our clients, exploring design opportunities and guiding the team to deliver the most effective solution to achieve the project goals. Our multi-disciplinary practice brings together professionals in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, interior design and procurement management serving the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. Our areas of expertise include multifamily housing, urban design & planning, affordable housing, student housing, senior living, commercial office, mixed-use, retail, clubs and resorts, coastal, parks and master planning.

KTGY Group, Inc.: Founded in 1991, KTGY is a leading full-service architecture, branding, interior and planning firm focused on residential, hospitality and mixed-use developments and neighborhood revitalization. We envision a future where residential and hospitality design inform one another to deliver spaces that merge design and desire. KTGY’s architects, designers and planners combine big picture opportunities, leading-edge sustainable practices and impeccable design standards to create memorable destinations of enduring value. We are seeking to hire multiple levels within our organization.

PGAL: PGAL is a national design firm specializing in architecture, interiors, engineering, and planning for a diverse portfolio of public and private sector clients. Renowned for outstanding client service and attention to detail, we balance innovative, responsive design solutions with a pragmatic, cost-conscious approach. This client-centered philosophy has earned PGAL repeat business and lasting relationships for more than 75 years.

VIA Design Architects, PC: Our design team is creative and nimble in the ability to adapt to new environments and challenges. VIA transformed the Essex, a structure permitted for construction in 1905 in Downtown Norfolk, to become our new home and design headquarters. We honored the original design elements and structural intention of the building while simultaneously “future proofing” it. This piece of demonstrational architecture exemplifies our mission to inspire, design, and elevate the daily lives of our clients and the surrounding communities. VIA’s growth in leadership and expansion of services to include landscape architecture and site planning, along with the enhancement of our interior design capabilities, graphic design capabilities, and wayfinding and branding services, allows us to offer a full suite of essential design services. These integrated services enhance each project’s potential and enables us to further care for our client’s design needs to help them find the unrealized potential.

WSP: WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering, environment and professional services firms. Recognized on Fast Company's Brands That Matter List for 2022 as a top Community-Minded Business, WSP USA brings together engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals who are dedicated to collaborate in the best interests of serving local communities. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,500 employees in 300 offices across the U.S., WSP partners with its clients to help communities prosper.