Parkhill, Smith, and Cooper

          

         One of Lubbock’s treasures can be said to be Parkhill, Smith, and Cooper  which is a full design firm that provides architectural and engineering design mainly in public entities. These public spaces include municipal infrastructure, education, healthcare, and transportation. This firm is not only located in Lubbock however, there are also four more locations which include: Amarillo, El Paso, Midland/Odessa, and Las Cruces. Parkhill, Smith, and Cooper is an extremely distinguished design firm being consistently ranked in the top 500 Design Firms in the United States and also being ranked in the top three of the 2010 Best Multidiscipline A/E Services Firms to Work For.

            Parkhill, Smith, and Cooper have a long and rich history beginning in the year 1945. Gordon W. Parkhill, Marlin R. Smith, Jr. , and S. Clarence Cooper were three college buddies that returned to West Texas at the end of World War II and saw West Texas’s need for civil engineering services and then began their civil engineering firm in Lubbock, Texas that year. These three men had no idea that their humble design firm would one day be in the top 500 Design Firms in the United States. The boom in their business came from the boom in the agricultural industry which led to more growing cities that in turn needed professional civil engineering consultant services to provide these towns with basic municipal infrastructure services of water, sewer, paving, and drainage. Over the years this firm expanded to be in five different cities and maintains a staff of 250 plus employees and the firm’s size and reputation allows these employees to work on high-profile projects.

            This prestigious firm does contain an interior design department. This department strives to integrate research, analysis, and informaton into the creative design process which in the end results in an enviorment which is appropriate for the space and the function of the space. The goal of the interior design department in Parkhill, Smith, and Cooper is to equip interior spaces to improve the quality of life, increase productivity, and protect the health, safety, and the welfare of the public. Utilizing these goals, this department has worked on an array of projects including healthcare, educational, retail, commercial, and govermental. Collaberation within this department and all of the other departments of this firm is essential for success in any design project.

            Visiting Parkhill, Smith, and Cooper can open your eyes to how all different branches of design can work together to create one successful project. Working in a design firm is all about teamwork with each department for the success of the whole firm. Parkhill, Smith, and Cooper would have no their prestigious and distinguished reputation without this teamwork of each branch and also each department within the firm.

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