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AmArillo - 500 S. Taylor, Suite 750 - Amarillo, TX 79101 - 806.376.8199 tel - 806.376.8189 fax

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D/P/S Firm Profile

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini

D/P/S provides comprehensive architecture, interiors, planning, structural engineering and landscape architecture services to a variety of public and private clients. With decades of experience, our firm has successfully completed thousands of projects from multi-family housing to high-tech laboratories.

With offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Amarillo, Texas; a diverse staff of licensed and progressive professionals and the latest available in technology, D/P/S is able to meet the specific needs of each of our clients.

Our clients dream of functional, beautiful buildings. Our passion is to help our clients realize those dreams. Every project is a new opportunity to surpass expectations, respond to new technologies and create functional, comfortable and stimulating places that work. With a strong, client-focused commitment, the firm’s multi-disciplinary, rational approach results in a constant search for design excellence. We organize and focus our entire team’s efforts to design projects that:

•arefunctionallybased&user-driven;

•respondtocurrentandfuturetechnologies;

•strivetomeetthehigheststandardsofcraftsmanship,codecomplianceandbuildingtechnology;

•areappropriateinimagetotime,placeandfunction;

•andmostimportantly,meetourclient’sbudgetandschedule.

D/P/S uses a multidisciplinary approach to architecture and design. We never compromise our clients’ needs for our design aesthetic; instead, our architects, landscape architects, interior designers and engineers work as a team with our clients to find great design solutions. And we don’t stop there. We roll up our sleeves during bidding, construction, the warranty period and beyond, engaged in every step, from the first drawing to the last drop of paint. Excellent design solutions can only provide value if they are built and maintained as envisioned.excellence in the entire Southwest Region.

LEED

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini has extensive experience in the design of LEED buildings and is committed to incorporating appropriate sustainable strategies into our projects. Although sustainable design has recently become a popular national trend, our firm has embraced this concept for many years as responsible design professionals. We have realized energy efficient projects for our unique climate by using common sense approaches to building siting, solar orientation, appropriate fenestration, building mass, appropriate mechanical systems, and the use of building materials readily available in our region.

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini has become increasingly involved in LEED-based projects in the past few years. We have been a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, the organization that created LEED, since 2001. We have designed many projects that have achieved or are pursuing LEED certification, and several other projects that were designed to LEED standards did not pursue formal certification. These include educational, commercial, residential, and institutional projects designed using the LEED-NC, LEED-CS, and LEED-CI rating systems.

In addition, Dekker/Perich/Sabatini has more LEED Accredited Professionals on staff than any other firm in New Mexico. We currently have 27 LEED Accredited Professionals. Through our internal training program, we have trained over 100 staff members in both the fundamentals of LEED and our own method for successfully managing LEED projects.

Higher Education

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini has collaborated with many prestigious higher education clients throughout the west. We have worked with these institutions to create campus facilities that are at the leading edge of design, incorporating the latest technologies with spaces that reflect the most current thinking in educational pedagogies. Our process is one that brings together all stakeholders of a facility and campus to create projects that respond to multiple layers of needs.

Our work centers on a balanced response to changing ideas in teaching with recognition of the institution’s reputation and tradition. Our emphasis is always on how the building supports the goals and aspirations of learning and research, but always within the context of the campus fabric. We also recognize that campus design is as much about the spaces between buildings as the buildings themselves, and we take special care in providing facilities that enhance and reinforce the pattern of the campus experience.

We are involved in numerous industry-related organizations such as the Society of College and University Planners (SCUP). We support the research activities of such organizations to stay abreast of current and future market trends. This knowledge benefits not only our firm, but also our clients.

K-12 Education

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini provides specialty design services for a variety of educational facilities projects. The firm has purposely staffed the company with professionals experienced in primary, secondary, and post-secondary facility design throughout the Southwest. This diverse pool of talent enables us to develop innovative design solutions that draw upon the best ideas and practices from throughout the region. A well-designed building not only provides an aesthetically pleasing and functional environment for its current occupants, but also provides an edge to our clients as they reach out to additional students and recruit and retain teachers and staff.

At Dekker/Perich/Sabatini we take seriously the responsibility that the environments we create have lasting impacts on the lives of the people who live, work, and learn in them. We believe that our clients, the end-users of educational facilities, include the students, teachers, administrators, parents, and community members, in addition to the facilities and procurement personnel. While it is imperative that we meet or exceed the client’s needs and expectations for production on schedule and within budget, it is also vital that we produce designs that are aesthetically pleasing, thought-provoking, and functional in every way to facilitate the education process. To successfully achieve these results, we practice a design process that is inclusive, involving design and programming sessions with representatives of the stakeholder groups to achieve maximum synergy, collaboration, and the best solution.

We are involved in numerous industry-related organizations such as the Council of Educational Facilities Planners International (CEFPI). We support the research activities of such organizations to stay abreast of current and future market trends. This knowledge benefits not only our firm, but also our clients.

Commercial

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini provides specialty design services for a variety of commercial projects. The firm has purposely staffed the company with professionals having commercial projects experience in markets throughout the southwest, as well as major markets elsewhere in the United States. This diverse pool of talent enables us to develop innovative design solutions that draw upon the best ideas and practices from throughout the nation. A well-designed building provides an “edge” to our clients as they respond to their competitors. This is true whether the task at hand is to reach out to customers or to recruit and retain tenants and employees.

Healthcare

As a leader in the field, Dekker/Perich/Sabatini has over 20 years experience in the design of healthcare facilities. With more than 20 multi-disciplined personnel, our Healthcare Group has collectively worked on more than 250 healthcare projects. Our group has created master plans for medical centers, planned new hospitals and hospital additions, orchestrated major renovations to outdated hospitals and created spaces for highly specialized equipment.

An integrated Studio of Professionals, the Dekker/Perich/Sabatini Healthcare Group is committed to superior healthcare design and development. In the pursuit of seamless, fully integrated design solutions, our team includes architects who make up the management, design and production teams, complemented by interiors, construction administration and technical staff who are exclusively dedicated to healthcare projects.

Housing

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini is committed to delivering quality multi-family housing to serve the Western United States. We have a full-time dedicated and experienced staff for creating well-designed projects and have developed the knowledge, resources and networks that allow us to deliver the best possible product to our clients. Successful housing projects are very market driven. Rents, vacancy rates, demand and construction costs are all interrelated. Helping our clients succeed is a product of tailoring the project design to the match the market demand. We work closely with our clients to quickly produce graphic packages that illustrate flexible solutions that can be easily priced and worked into a proforma. Focusing on the amenities, construction costs, rent structure and financing options very early in the process helps give shape to the finished product.We have extensive experience in working with approval agencies such as the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Mortgage Finance Authority for tax credit applications for affordable housing. We have built strong relationships with contractors who specialize in housing, as well as companies that provide bonding assistance and nonprofit agencies involved in tax credit applications.

Housing is a project type that is very exciting to us. We understand the processes involved from inception of an idea through completion of a project. Our knowledge of these processes offers value to our clients.

Interior Design

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini believes the successful interior design of a space requires a collaborative effort. We work as a team with our clients and consultants--a team with a common goal of achieving the most dynamic results we can deliver, smoothly and reliably. Our staff of Interior Designers and Interior Architects continually keeps abreast of the latest in design and construction in order to provide you with the highest level of expertise.

We realize, however, that a successful project requires more than experience and expertise. A successful project is about developing trust, having passion, thinking innovatively, and being engaged. We promise to be fully engaged in your project. We have a desire to create not only a building that fits your needs, we want to build personal relationships. We look forward to the opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to you.

Landscape Design

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini provides landscape architecture services to all of the specialized design groups within all offices, as well as to external clients. The Landscape Architecture team focuses on the planning and design of exterior places and spaces- with a thorough understanding of real estate development and the interrelatedness of structures, land and people. From project inception to the close of construction, our team makes important contributions to Dekker/Perich/Sabatini’s collaborative, multi-disciplinary design process with expertise in Concept Development, Site Planning and Design, and Landscape Design.

The Landscape Architecture team has specialized expertise in the planning, design, and development of arid lands in the Southwest U.S. We are familiar with the environmental, economic, and cultural issues that surround development here and have a passion for creating great places that reflect and respect the characteristics of our region. Our broad scope of potential services requires us to be facile in a variety of communications mediums including traditional technical writing, handsketching and illustration, as well as AutoCAD, LandCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketchup, PageMaker, and InDesign. We are licensed to practice landscape architecture in New Mexico, Nevada, Texas and Arizona.

Planning

The Planning group provides a wide range of planning and design services, from conceptual land use plans to design guidelines to municipal submittals and approvals. We excel at providing integrated design and planning solutions that are market-driven and sustainable. Projects range from large-scale master planned communities to small in-fill tracts. Our group utilizes the design expertise of the firm and a collaborative approach to maximize development opportunities for the client. With our integrated team of planners, landscape architects, and architects, we can generate initial design concepts and take projects through to construction documents. As with other practice groups in the firm, the Planning group has LEED-accredited professionals that look at early, upfront opportunities to incorporate sustainability into the overall plan for a project. We cover the spectrum of residential, mixed-use, commercial, and industrial projects.

Structural Engineering

Our structural engineering group services all of the specialized architecture design groups across the firm, as well as selected external clients. Our goal is to create a truly integrated structural solution for any design challenge. We strive towards creative and efficient design solutions, utilizing a wide variety of structural systems and building materials. To accomplish this, we are involved in projects from inception to final punchlist. Our staff members are trained and experienced in LEED principles and actively participate in sustainable design efforts on our projects.

Early in the design process we provide alternative design solutions and facilitate pricing comparisons, then follow up by working closely with the design team to provide an economical structural design. We strive to provide our clients with structures that satisfy their present and future needs. We achieve this by anticipating and carefully evaluating various loading conditions and structural design criteria as the project evolves.

The department consists of engineers who are licensed in states throughout the West, engineering interns and CAD technicians. We utilize the latest software and design techniques and continually evaluate our detailing and design standards to stay abreast of evolving technology and materials. Our drafting software capabilities include AutoCAD, Microstation, RAM CADstudio and Revit Structural; and for engineering analysis and design we utilize ETABS, RISA-3D, RAM Structural System, SAFE, Enercalc, and MathCAD. We have a strong reputation for our ability to design structures that meet our client’s functional needs, can be built within available budgets, and are delivered on time.