Conventional Wisdom has been responsible for incorporating new ways of thinking into a number of our projects, resulting in mitigated risk to our clients and value-driven rewards for the communities that our client’s facilities serve. Being an agent of change is not always easy and requires the willingness of leaders to take risks that are often foreign to their community.
2020
Developing a pricing module to support the return of business after the pandemic that reduced risk to the clients and supported the historic rate structure for the facility. (Colorado Convention Center)
2018
Serving as Asset Manager to perform annual inspections documenting facility condition and areas needing repairs, replacements, and improvements; jointly establishing capital repair and replacement plans, project scopes, and short- and long-term budgets. (Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland, Global Center for Health Innovation)
2017
International design competition winner Agora Bogota (Colombia) is recognized worldwide for setting new standards in modern and technological architecture as an international benchmark of design, innovation, sustainability and functionality.
2015
Assisting in the planning and design of a public-private partnership (P3) development that included a convention center, hotel and office spaces in the same high-rise building. (Nova Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia).
2013
Negotiating a facility management contract that included facility occupancy, economic impact and maintenance of the facility assets as part of the incentive fee scoring criteria. (Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland; Global Center for Health Innovation)
2010
New crowd modeling and event profiling methods to develop a breakdown of function spaces in the facility program for balancing multiple use types as a cost-effective approach to flexibility in design.
2008
Planning a phased-convention center and district elements in a new city developed as the world’s largest public-private partnership. (Songdo Convensia, Incheon Province, Republic of Korea).
2008
Modifying basic programmatic assumptions to incorporate the requirements of the new generation of facility users and advise of the shifts required in the supporting hospitality infrastructure.
2006
Integrating a high-end conference center as a stand-alone business unit into an urban convention center (Phoenix Convention Center)
2005
Scoring the exhibition floor to simplify and standardize the setup of 10×10 booths. While recommended in 1997 for the Puerto Rico Convention Center, this approach was first implemented by the Virginia Beach Convention Center in 2005. This feature received Trade Show Executive’s Industry Innovation Award in 2007.
1998
Programming the first “green” facility for the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh Design Competition (co-sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council)
1996
Developing and administering the qualifications-based selection process for modified design-build project delivery using CM-at-Risk (San Diego)
1992
Incorporating large multi-purpose rooms into the meeting space program for convention facilities (McCormick Place, Chicago
1990
Master planning the first 1,000,000 square foot contiguous exhibition hall (Orange County Convention Center, Orlando)