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Grand Rapids, Mich. (January 22, 2024) – GMB, a professional services firm focused on the educational market, and Secure Environment Consultants (SEC) have entered into a partnership that aims to enhance school safety through design, security planning, and safety training. This exclusive partnership will allow GMB to offer safety solutions that integrate with building and environment design, and this holistic approach will extend to training for staff and teachers.

Philadelphia, PA: Spiezle Architectural Group, Inc., is pleased to announce the opening of its newest office in Philadelphia. The 6,200-square-foot office is located near the historic Liberty Bell at 615 Chestnut Street. It will enhance the firm’s presence in Philadelphia, and surrounding areas, to provide clients with full-scope architectural services.

(LINCOLN, Neb., January 4, 2024) ― DLR Group announces Senior Associate Adam Post, AIA, WELL AP, will lead the firm’s Higher Education practice based out of their Lincoln office. This strategic decision allows Post to further enhance DLR Group’s prominence in the marketplace while actively fostering crucial relationships and expanding opportunities within regional higher education institutions.

GREEN BAY, Wis.-- KI is excited to announce its second annual classroom furniture giveaway and learning space design competition for K-12 educators. Four winners will each be awarded up to $40,000-worth of KI furniture of their choosing to turn their dream learning space into a reality. Three winners will receive a furniture makeover for their classroom, lab, makerspace, or art or music space.

OM Seating wows with OM5 Active™ Nest, a dynamic nesting and stacking chair that delights with a subtle, articulating chair top.  Effortlessly functional while playfully stylish, Active Nest arrives ready to perform in today’s hybrid work spaces.  And it comes with green credentials, as OM’s first product launch after earning a LEVEL® 2 rating from BIFMA’s sustainability certification program for furniture.
 

SOLON, OH, OCTOBER 18, 2023 — Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable flooring solutions, is refreshing its high-performing, premium Contour LVT offerings with two new design collections: Collaborative and Mindful Maker. Like most Contour abstract designs, the collections are manufactured with the company’s high-definition digital printing capabilities, affording crisper visual details, longer pattern repeats and ample opportunities to tailor designs with a customer’s own signature touches.

[Bloomfield, CT: July 19, 2023] Lesro Industries announces the launch of a new product line called Chat. Uncomplicated in its design, Chat has the flexibility to provide guests with comfort and stability while enhancing the aesthetic of any space.. Chat is a fully welded steel tube product line offering models such as a standard, armless, oversize, and benches with matching occasional tables. Chairs come with the option of upholstered seats and backs, polypropylene seats and backs, or a combination of both materials. Its sturdy steel construction allows for 300 and 400lb. weight bearing capacities.

CHICAGO – NeoCon Expo – July 18, 2023 — Mannington Commercial a leading manufacturer of commercial flooring products crafted with purpose, is introducing the New Composition Collection at this year’s NeoCon. Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, a pioneer of abstract art and his groundbreaking Composition series, the imaginative modular and broadloom carpet collection transforms flooring design into artistic play, crafting harmonious spaces that are engaging, creative and warm.

SOLON, OH, JULY 11, 2023 — Tarkett launched this month a new website for its commercial business in North America, featuring added functionalities and streamlined design. A global leader in the flooring industry, the new website prioritizes beautiful imagery and design inspiration for commercial interiors, based on feedback the company received directly from its customers.

July 5, 2023 - It is with deep sadness that Learning By Design Magazine received notice of the passing of Peter A. Gisolfi. Peter, founded in1976 Peter Gisolfi Associates, Architects and Landscape Architects (Hastings on Hudson, NY) was "an architect, landscape architect, and teacher whose primary focus was to shape places—usually groups of buildings connected by open space.