Building a New Architecture

AECOM welcomes the 450 architects, interior designers and engineers of Ellerbe Becket into our global, integrated design platform. Practicing from seven offices across the US and Middle East, Ellerbe Becket's world-renowned strengths reside in the design of healthcare, sports, government, corporate and higher education facilities. This experience complement's AECOM's existing capabilities and strengthens our ability to provide high-performance design for the buildings of public life.

"We're building the next-generation integrated design practice," said Joe Brown, Chief Executive of Planning, Design + Development at AECOM.  "Bringing together different disciplines, we have an opportunity to forge new responses to better serve clients in a world where resource scarcity, urbanization, environmental change and economic uncertainty factor into projects of every scale. These challenges demand the reinvention of the roles of architect, interior designer, landscape architect, scientist, ecologist, engineer, planner and economist."

Ellerbe Becket's notable projects have included the Kingdom Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; the Mayo Clinic Gonda Building in Rochester, Minnesota; University Hospital in Dubai Healthcare City; Samsung Cancer Center in Seoul, South Korea, the largest cancer center in Asia; Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis; and Qwest Field for the NFL Seattle Seahawks. Projects currently underway include the new VA Medical Center in Orlando, Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, NY, and the renewal of the Minneapolis campus of Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. The firm is also part of the team recently selected for the design of the new San Antonio US Courthouse.

"With the AECOM global platform of services, we're broadening the expertise and knowledge that we can apply to our clients' projects," said Rick Lincicome, AIA, Ellerbe Becket's chief executive officer. "Increasingly, projects of all sizes are affected by global environmental and economic issues. The added resources that we can apply to these projects from the earliest stages will allow us to deliver exemplary local solutions for clients while making a difference in the world. We're thrilled to be a part of the AECOM team."

Thomas Fridstein AIA, LEED AP, is leading AECOM's global architecture practice, drawing on 30 years of experience in the development, design and construction of significant buildings and urban form. Says Fridstein, "We are building the world's greatest global architectural practice. We have the resources, the talent and the opportunities to re-imagine the way architecture is practiced."

Ellerbe Becket's designers and engineers join AECOM's strong architectural team drawn from the firms of DMJM H&N, HSMM, Spillis Candela, and Citymark. In advancing our global architecture practice, one with deep connections to the adjacent fields of planning, engineering, and landscape architecture, AECOM sets out to design the buildings that serve most people's daily lives, the places we work, learn, heal, or come together. If high performance expectations are fulfilled in the design of these buildings, which together provide the foundation of our built communities and social infrastructure, we will make significant progress towards solving some of the world's greatest challenges.

Jake Herson