CannonDesign moves up as a global leader in Modern Healthcare's Design and Construction Rankings.

The third installment of CannonDesign's Buffalo Urban Futures Forum will focus on developing a vision for the city's Niagara Street Corridor.

Recently, our Buffalo office hosted a student from Autism Services to give him a front row seat to a day in the life of an engineer. Although this organization primarily serves individuals with autism, they extend their career services to anyone who may have intellectual or development disabilities. Under this umbrella of services, Autism Services provides students who are either in their last years of high school or in early years of college the opportunity to learn more about careers they may be interested in by shadowing professionals. The student visitor came to CannonDesign with his job coach and spent half a day shadowing two of our engineers – Jason...

It’s no secret that the work of an engineer is demanding. We are responsible for translating dreams into realistic and functional projects. For keeping up on the latest trends in technology, materials, energy and security, while hitting deadlines and meeting client demands. For maintaining a positive attitude while anticipating worst-case scenarios and for creating safeguards to ensure they don’t occur. Our work is certainly not a nine to five job, and we have a lot to try and fit into a 24-hour day. But while the work is important and understandably takes priority, it’s also crucial that we make time to stay engaged in the industry we belong to, and the...

The building design and construction industry strongly affects the economy, the environment and society as a whole. It touches the daily lives of everyone, as the built environment heavily influences the quality of life. However, when compared to other industries, it has traditionally been slow at technological development and process change. While research and development boomed in all fields of science and technology after World War II, the information revolution age hasn’t alleviated the professional chores of an engineer. Sure, disciplinary technical chores are faster and more accurate, but there’s yet to be an integrated convergence of new technology to enhance our problem solving. Unlike in the past, engineering professionals now...

Michael Bonomo and Michael Tunkey talk to Business First Buffalo about modern workplace design.

Ambulatory Care subject matter experts Stephen Winikoff and Steven Stafford co-author piece on strategic community partnerships in Medical Construction & Design.

Creative energy inspires me. It always has, always will. So, moderating our second Buffalo Urban Futures Forum event at The Martin Group’s new workplace in December proved remarkably inspiring, as it brought together some of the leading creatives voices in the City of Buffalo. Panelists included: Tod Martin, President & Chief Creative Officer at The Martin Group Dana Marciniak, Director of PR and Brand Communications for New Era Cap Aaron Ott, Curator of Public Art for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Through our discussion, we explored three key themes: The importance of place, what it means to stay creatively relevant and finally where our city’s collective creative energy is headed. Each...

Four leaders from CannonDesign's Buffalo office are named to Business First Buffalo's Who's Building WNY List

CannonDesigners Luke Johnson and Cheri Weatherston have been hard at work this past year as the Buffalo Architecture Foundation’s Architecture + Education (Arch+Ed) Program Co-Chairs. Other CannonDesign volunteer architects this year were Nate Heckman and Harrison Walsh. With more than 225 students and five Buffalo public schools involved in this unique program, everyone is looking forward to celebrating when all of the students’ work is displayed at the CEPA Gallery in downtown Buffalo on January 19. The decade-old, award-winning Arch+Ed program was founded to increase awareness and involvement in the built and natural environment and to use architecture as a multidisciplinary form of active learning. Running biennially, the program uses architecture to teach students math,...

During the final months of 2017, I had the chance to attend the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) 2017 Fall meeting in Los Angeles and subsequently share four exciting takeaways from the event. With a bit of downtime during the holidays, I revisited those initial takeaways and my notes from the ULI conference. Numerous other conference sessions introduced urban design and real estate strategies that I expect to resonate in 2018, and I wanted to share them as we head into the New Year. Below are brief summaries of three emerging realities that will affect our cities in 2018: A “Golden Hour” for Gentrification One of the most inspired ideas shared...

Interior Design has profiled two award winning components of the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal – the passerelle and the roof terraces.

Meghan is a seasoned marketing and communications executive who has over 30 years’ experience in business development, public relations, sales administration, client service management and human resources.

Stephanie Vito, AIA, accepted the Young Architect Award at the annual AIA award ceremony held at Asbury Hall.

The Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) continues to garner international design recognition with four awards in the last month.

Healthcare Design profiles the Nantucket Cottage Hospital presentation at HCD 2017

Last Friday, over a dozen Buffalo office employees and their spouses volunteered at Oishei Children’s Hospital for Move Day. The vast majority of our volunteers were project team members who worked on various aspects of the building. CannonDesign was the engineer of record and provided cost estimating, MEP and telecommunications engineering in addition to lighting design services for the project. Local news outlets reported the move was an overwhelming success. Moving day for Children’s Hospital goes off without a hitch – The Buffalo News Patient by patient, Oishei Children’s Hospital comes online – Buffalo Business First As the engineers of record on the Oishei Children’s Hospital, the team capitalized on its new...

Gus Lima will co-present the CHUM project with Azad Chichmanian at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin.