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With TKDA, you engage in collaboration and leverage established expertise to enhance your student’s learning experience.

 

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Why TKDA?

We influence future leaders. Our integrated engineering, architecture, planning, and other specialized services will meet and exceed your higher education needs. We bring a wealth of expertise to create inclusive and reliable learning environments that empower students.

Long-Standing Expertise

Our team draws from over a century of experience and is invested in the latest training and technology to provide innovative solutions for education clients. We take an ownership approach to problem-solving and are passionate about creating flexible, efficient learning environments to serve various education facilities. We go deep to understand what educational institutions care about most. The products of our approach are cost-effective facilities that support your unique cultures, programs, and priorities. In a landscape where change is accelerating for educational institutions, TKDA is your partner for long-range planning, project design, implementation, and ongoing facility asset management solutions.

Integrated Team

We have a passion for creating educational environments that spark ideas in the next generation of leaders. Our multi-disciplined team of architects, landscape architects, interior designers, planners, and civil, electrical, mechanical, and structural engineers work together to enhance the learning experience at your school. Woven together, our teams form a strong firm, ensuring seamless coordination and communication to efficiently tackle projects. By often working with schools and public institutions, we understand the unique needs, financial constraints, and importance of sustainability. These teams examine design issues from all perspectives, exploring ideas and creating resilient, low-maintenance, and energy-efficient solutions. 

We have a long history of working on higher education projects, spanning residence, dining and culinary, facilities, labs, classrooms, trade and shop, and site improvements. Our team’s comprehensive education experience in these project types shows our ability to deliver long-term solutions that enhance the learning environment for students, staff, and the surrounding community. With a focus on collaboration and relationship-building, we deliver projects that have a lasting positive impact on learning centers.

Residence

Student housing facilities are living and learning communities that foster a sense of belonging. The quality of housing is also one of the most important issues students consider when evaluating residential campuses. As we design student residences, we include contributions from students, making their input a vital part of the process.

Dining and Culinary

Campus dining halls and community common areas are the center of activity and a cornerstone for social gatherings. At TKDA, we design high-quality dining centers, grab-and-go facilities, and other culinary spaces to elevate the student user experience with efficiency and sustainability at the forefront.

Facilities

The most important elements of a campus often go unseen or unnoticed, and the facilities' infrastructure is important to sustain healthy, comfortable, and safe environments. We consistently deliver successful upgrades and renovation projects that address facility management challenges and improve energy performance.

Labs

TKDA leverages our experience in corporate and industrial laboratory environments to create teaching and research labs that enable faculty, students, business partners, and researchers. Our lab designs explore meaningful upgrades to enhance core programs and the built environment where people learn and work on a regular basis.

Classrooms

Classrooms must provide flexible support for programs and teaching initiatives while maximizing space utilization and efficiency to meet the needs of students, faculty, and staff. Our education engineers, architects, planners, and specialists design classrooms that encourage socialization and create a positive learning environment.

Trade and Shop

We combine our expertise in industrial and manufacturing facilities and experience designing learning environments to create teaching and research labs that enable faculty, students, business partners, and researchers. The results are collaborative, creative environments that can evolve with changing needs and foster student skill development.

Sports and Recreation

TKDA’s dedicated sports and recreation design team understands the impact athletic facilities have as attractive amenities to current and prospective student-athletes. From athletic fields and stadiums to wellness centers, we develop facilities that accommodate the diverse and evolving sports, recreation, health, and wellness needs.

Site Improvements

College campuses are where people live, work, and play. We provide a broad range of design services for both hardscape and softscape solutions that are functional, sustainable, and harmonious. Our landscape architects and civil engineers collaborate to design spaces that fit your vision and are fiscally practical for the future.

Services

We specialize in solving complexity with precision and expertise. With a team of highly skilled, passionate professionals, we are dedicated to providing innovative and exceptional services to meet the unique needs of learning centers. Our team delivers excellent service and lasting solutions to higher education clients through the following services:

  • Predesign
  • Schematic design
  • Design
  • Programming
  • Cost estimating
  • Construction administration
  • Building assessments

Surveying

Our higher education projects often include land surveying services, which we complete in-house to carry out boundary, topographic, and construction staking for street, building, parking lot, utility, or drainage improvement projects. Additionally, we use aerial photography, videography, 2D/3D mapping, mobile and terrestrial LiDAR and underwater ROV to expertly gather data from new perspectives in less time.

Campus Master Planning

As higher education buildings and sites require an efficient use of space to meet the wants and needs of students, faculty, and staff, these facilities prioritize campus planning. At TKDA, we provide campus master planning to help synthesize educational institutions' financial and spatial development into a singular plan.

Stakeholder Engagement

We believe a community-centered, transparent engagement process is at the core of a successful project outcome. Our team discusses projects with students, faculty, and staff to inform project design. We use an open and honest approach that focuses on collaboration to identify issues of concern, provide appropriate input, and actively participate in developing a positive project outcome.

Geothermal

Geothermal systems use the constant temperature of the earth to heat and cool buildings. As energy costs rise, this method becomes more energy-efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective than conventional approaches. Our team installs these systems, which have low carbon emissions, reduce waste, and help higher education clients save money over time.

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BRIAN KELLEY

Education Market Manager, Facilities Engineering
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ENGY MICHAEL

Education Market Manager, Architecture
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