Looking Forward: Community Outreach for New Year
In 2016, our team chose to partner with two non-profits in Northwest Arkansas: Samaritan Community Center (SMCC) and the Children's Advocacy Center of Benton County (CAC). This year, we are continuing our partnerships with both of these organizations, and we...
Benchmark Group Named Top Engineering Firm By Celebrate Magazine
Celebrate Arkansas Magazine just released their annual "Very Best" list, a list voted on by the magazine's readers. Benchmark Group is proud to be among the list of the Very Best Engineering Firms in 2016! We thank our teams for their fantastic work in...
Team Gives Gifts to NWA Children Through the Children’s Advocacy Center
Several of our teams at Benchmark Group volunteered to donate money, time, & resources to the annual Christmas gift program organized and coordinated by the Children's Advocacy Center of Benton County. Our teams rallied together to buy gifts for 23 children,...
The End Game: Remember to Design With the End in Mind
By Scott Forbes, Program Manager When you are in the business of designing buildings, it is often easy to forget what the end game of that business is. We are frequently under tight deadlines to deliver documents at some level of development, and the drawings and...
LEED V4 Rolls Out with Bolder Vision. Download the LEED V4 User Guide Today.
As of October 31, 2016, your new projects will be registered under LEED V4. There have been many changes since the last version was released in 2009. Click over on the USGBC.org website to download the LEED V4 User Guide. According to the website: "LEED v4 includes...
AIA Innovation Awards Honor Sustainable Design
The Epic Deep Space Auditorium in Verona, Wisconsin | Photo by Cunningham Group Architecture, Inc. Curbed.com recently highlighted the American Institute of Architecture's annual Innovation Awards. The AIA works to award design that is both sustainable and cutting...
How Disruption & Experience Are Shaping the Future of Grocery Shopping – Highlights from the 2016 FMI Conference
Did you know that 30% of Millennials order groceries for home delivery from their mobile device? And another 17% order online and pick up inside the store? And in 2015, 78% of smartphone owners have downloaded a shopping app for groceries.* At this year's Food...
Arkansas Ranks 27th on 2016 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) just released the annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard. The state of Arkansas was ranked 27th, tying Texas, while California and Massachusetts tied for first place. "Arkansas committed to extend its...
Don’t Stress. Create Opportunities Instead.
From one of our Program Managers, Scott Forbes: Stress - we all deal with it. The construction industry is certainly no exception. What we used to be allowed months to do is now completed in weeks, and that can lead to stress. As consulting engineers, one of the...
Interior Design Duo Attend NeoCon
By Architectural Program Director Amy Gilliam They packed their bags and headed to Chicago! Two of our interior designers, Kate Reilly-Phillips and Casey Clippinger, recently attended the NeoCon Interior Design Conference. They joined nearly 50,000 other design...