Greenbuild, the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to sustainable design and construction practices, was held in San Francisco from November 12 – 16, 2012.  MSKTD’s Director of Sustainability, Landon Chapman, LEED AP, was among the more than 30,000 design and construction professionals who participated in the outstanding educational sessions, specialized workshops and networking events.  Chapman attended numerous sessions including Environmental Analysis and BIM; Logistics of LEED v4; Integrative Design Process and LEED; and LEED v4 – Tools and Resources.

Understanding the LEED for Healthcare Rating System was another session that particularly piqued the interest of MSKTD’s HealthCare Group.  Chapman is sharing his insights on the subject via a two-part, in-house presentation.  MSKTD looks forward to continuing to share our knowledge and expertise with all of our clients.  But our healthcare clients may find this to be of particular interest in 2013!

Nick Slater, MSKTD principal and architect/Healthcare Group leader; Mary Schafer, MSKTD Nurse Consultant/Practitioner Resource; Michael Bluhm, Weigand Construction project manager, and Patti Hays, Senior VP and Acting COO for Lutheran Health Network presented “Onward and Upward. A Case Study of a Hospital Vertical Expansion Project,” on Tuesday, October 2^nd at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo in Chicago, Illinois.  The case study on the Lutheran Hospital Fifth Floor Vertical Expansion project focused on how the owner, design and construction team successfully met the unique challenges involved with building vertically above an active hospital.

Lots of new faces are keeping all of us MSKTD veterans on our toes these days.  Joining our Fort Wayne team are graduate Architects Tavin Yeiter, Paul Lindsay, and Mike Scherman; Structural graduate engineer Anthony Spatt, Electrical Engineering Tech Josh Farlee, Mechanical Engineering Tech MaryAnn Dubiel and Architectural intern David Vallandingham.  New in our Indianapolis office is Architectural intern Emily McGowan.

Welcome All!

Good luck and best wishes to partner Chuck Braden on his retirement at the end of 2011.Chuck started his career with MSKTD in 1995, after heading up facilities departments at St. Joe and Lutheran hospitals.  He is responsible for establishing and growing MSKTD’s in-house Healthcare Group into a successful provider-focused service-oriented planning and design team.  When MSKTD decided to open and staff an Indianapolis office in 2001, Chuck made the move south and headed up that office.Not one to be the center of attention, Chuck’s retirement celebrations were pretty low key and quiet.  The best gifts he received were a great photo book from Nick and Bob of all the projects he’s worked on and a popcorn machine in the office for the week (yes, totally violating Al’s office popcorn-making rule).  More important to him were the people who wrote a note or stopped by to wish him well.Can’t believe in his 16 years I can’t come up with an embarrassing photo of him to post.  I feel I’ve failed somehow.  Since that wasn’t possible, the Indy boys photo-shopped some – stop by our Fort Wayne office and see the front desk slideshow that will run til the end of the year.Lucky for us, Chuck won’t be totally retired – he will still work with MSKTD on an as-needed basis – so you can still email or leave a voice mail message for him.  Now he might answer while sitting pool-side somewhere…We’ll miss you Chuck!!!!

Sharing a few staff pictures from the November 8^th Grand Opening of the beautiful new Carmel regional banking center.Thanks to our friends at Lake City for bringing MSKTD/MSKTD Build on board for another successful project! 

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful …. check out MSKTD’s donor profile in the latest newsletter.Indy staff Kyle Hardie and Sarah Savage are both actively involved in KIB’s young professional group SOLAR.

Seems like our week for milestones.Hard to believe to us old-timers, but today is MSKTD Indy’s 10 year anniversary.Established July 1, 2001 to extend our Client service capabilities to the central and southern parts of the state, MSKTD Indy is located at 930 North Meridian.   Led by principals Chuck Braden, Bob Harmeyer and Nick Slater, our Indy office has grown to include a dozen talented architects and associated support personnel.We’ve worked hard to deliver great client service and quality design, and we now have multiple local clients and many award-winning built projects to show for it.Happy 10 year Indy!  Here’s to many, many more!

MSKTD & Associates is very proud to announce that architects Brent Doctor and Nick Slater are now stockholders and partners in the firm.Joining MSKTD in 1999, Brent Doctor is a Ball State University graduate, and NCARB & DBIA-certified Architect.  Brent’s primary focus is as a Project Manager/Architect with our in-house Advanced Manufacturing team.  He has led numerous fast-tracked construction projects throughout the United States for clients Cooper Foods, Zimmer, T. Marzetti, Edy’s Grand Ice Cream, and Commonwealth Dairy.  We certainly look forward to utilizing Doc’s expertise as he leads our in-house team’s worldwide growth in the advanced manufacturing market. Architect and LEED AP Nick Slater, also a Ball State graduate, has been with MSKTD since 1999 (and before that in 1997 for his internship).  Based in our Indianapolis office, Nick is 100% dedicated to MSKTD Healthcare.  Nick is leading MSKTD’s team for the planning and design of the 5th floor vertical expansion at Lutheran Hospital now under construction, and is also working with clients IU Health Methodist, IU Health Ball Memorial, Marion General Hospital, and Kosciusko Community Hospital.  Nick’s planning and design talents are the cornerstone of MSKTD Healthcare’s efforts as we focus on the unique and demanding concepts of medical planning and design.

MSKTD & Associates, Inc. and MSKTD Build LLC are proud to announce that we are working on a new regional banking center for Lake City Bank in Carmel, Indiana.  The 11,000 s.f. new facility will be located on the northwest corner of 96^th and Meridian Streets.  Pursuing LEED Silver certification, the facility will specialize in both commercial and retail financial services.  Read more about this announcement here and hereMSKTD & MSKTD Build also partnered on the design and construction of the Lake City Bank Retail and Banking Center on West Jefferson Boulevard in Fort Wayne, which was completed in 2007.Congratulations to our friends at Lakeland Financial Corporation on their continuing growth and success.   And thanks for again choosing MSKTD/MSKTD Build as your design/build partner!