Early Childhood Education
Inspiring a lifelong love for learning
Early childhood facilities and providers aim to give their communities expert staff, high quality programs and materials, and developmentally appropriate learning environments. The buildings we design reinforce these essential learning components.
Our job, successfully accomplished, prepares the stage for others to become the stars—teachers optimize use of their learning environments to inspire students and students become thoroughly educated through various forms of discovery.
Our design process for early childhood education facilities is rooted in a school’s educational program goals and engages a wide range of participants such as the administrators, educators, students, and citizens. As designers, and also as parents, we strive to deliver, on time and within budget, exciting and functional designs that motivate the intellect and enhance the learning process for future generations.
Getting back to school
The COVID-19 global pandemic has disrupted many long-held assumptions about how your facilities operate. Our team of planners, designers, architects, engineers, scientists, and project managers have come together to provide advice that will help you make informed decisions about the design and operations of your schools—from fostering resiliency to managing user experience to recommended facility protocols. Read MoreEarly learners need the right environments
High quality early education sets children on the right path to long-term academic success. Determining what high quality means in relation to building design, programming options, and the realities of a global pandemic, is what innovators like Diego Barrera, senior design architect, focus on. Diego’s article “Creating Thoughtful Environments for Early Learners,” published in School Construction News, lays out three pillars of environmental design that support effective educational delivery and outcomes. Read MoreFeatured News
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Prince George’s County Education & Community Partners consortium selected for Prince George’s County, Maryland, schools alternative construction financing projectRead More
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Stantec to design specialized Career Technical Education high school in New MexicoRead More
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Falls Church City Public Schools breaks ground on new $120 Million George Mason High SchoolRead More
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Stantec receives a top educational design award for Manor New Tech Middle SchoolRead More
Each project I work on is an opportunity to create a great place for our students to thrive.
Patrick Calhoun, Senior Associate, Senior Planner
In educational building design, you like hearing how your design positively impacts students. When you extrapolate out to future generations, that experience is both joyful and humbling.
Scott Klaus, Principal, Senior Design Architect
A great pleasure in life is doing what others say you can’t.
Michael Lovaglio, Principal
The design process is as much about relationships as it is about capabilities; I work to develop relationships as much as my technical skills.
Gwen Morgan, Senior Associate, Discipline Leader, Interior Design
I love designing facilities for people who devote themselves to public service and the development of future generations.
Laura Flannery Sachtleben, Senior Principal, Global Education/S&T Sector Leader
I believe that architecture can and should serve as a catalyst for innovation in education.
Parul Vyas, Principal
My philosophy is that memories are created when occupants move into the buildings we design.
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