Expertise

Lord Aeck Sargent's interior designers excel in creating purposeful and inspiring environments that prioritize user comfort, productivity, wellness, and collaboration. By engaging clients in the design process and understanding their business-driven requirements, we deliver interior spaces that align with their brand, culture, and work processes. Our approach emphasizes innovation, utilizing creative solutions and advanced technology integration to enhance functionality and flexibility.

With a keen eye on functional requirements and spatial development, our interdisciplinary team collaboratively explores solutions that support the wellbeing of occupants and seamlessly integrate with the architectural design. We bring forward-thinking expertise to each project. Our interior designers maintain professional interior design and architectural registrations at the state level, NCIDQ certifications, and memberships in multiple professional affiliations keeping us current on industry trends and research. Our services encompass a wide range of offerings, including design consultation, programming, feasibility studies, ADA compliance, FF&E, and construction administration, ensuring holistic support from concept to completion.

Through our dedication to innovation and collaboration, we strive to create interior environments that inspire, support, and reflect the unique needs of our clients.

Lord Aeck Sargent’s focuses on creating vibrant urban communities that prioritize walkability and livability, viewing each community’s built environment as a unique collage shaped by its people, politics, and location. Embracing the principles of good urbanism, such as diversity, connectivity, and sustainability, Lord Aeck Sargent is recognized for its expertise in public involvement, graphic communication, and effective implementation strategies. Our portfolio encompasses myriad projects, including mixed-use developments/communities, downtown master plans, streetscape designs, transit and trails development, and urban public spaces and parks, with services ranging from master planning to construction administration.

We boast a diverse design staff with expertise in design and planning, comprising registered architects, urban planners, landscape architects, arborists, and zoning specialists. These efforts have led to the creation of new trails and paths, greenspace at top-tier educational institutions and housing developments, extensive parks and open spaces, and miles of enhanced streetscapes. By prioritizing clear communication and integration within the broader community and stakeholders, Lord Aeck Sargent assists clients in developing projects that seamlessly fit their surroundings and contribute positively to the urban fabric.

Lord Aeck Sargent is renowned for creative solutions to complex laboratory projects, engaging in interactive collaboration between owners, users, architects, and engineers. Our in-house laboratory and equipment planners understand the intricacies involved in developing all types of research, teaching, and industrial labs. With millions of completed square feet in laboratory space, Lord Aeck Sargent leads in innovative science facility design and strives to create environments that enhance interaction and collaboration while maintaining the highest attainable level of design, technology, and safety.

Research laboratories encompass an exciting array of buildings and environments to house and support a diverse range of research endeavors. While the nature of work that takes place within these labs varies significantly, common to each is the need to establish highly collaborative, interdisciplinary settings within a technologically sophisticated yet flexible framework—one that will adapt and evolve as initiatives and equipment needs change over time.

At the core of biomedical research is the drive to accelerate the evolution of scientific discovery into beneficial applications. The planning and design of these labs should support interdisciplinary, team-based research—encouraging collaboration and meaningful interaction through spaces that foster a sense of place for the research community. Technology is integral to research, and it is essential that these labs provide for the integration of current and future technologies to support sophisticated computational research and equipment and to seamlessly interconnect the research, academic, and clinical environments.

Achieving excellence in the STEM disciplines is essential to the continued strength of our nation as a leader and innovator in the increasingly competitive worldwide market. As such, STEM labs are increasingly becoming more important for their power to captivate and inspire students. These labs mandate a robust and flexible infrastructure, and the successful integration of technology is essential—expanding and enabling the environment for learning beyond the classroom walls and into a wide variety of spaces and settings.

Diagnostic, testing, and R&D laboratories —including corporate and government/ public sector work—require an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the intensive process and equipment driven work that takes place within these facilities. A host of unique needs are frequently mandated by these projects, including extensive workflow coordination, aggressive and critical schedule parameters and enhanced safety and regulatory requirements.

Lord Aeck Sargent specializes in public space design, mobility and facility planning, historic preservation, placemaking, and community engagement. We excel in crafting outdoor spaces that harmonize with their surrounding buildings. Our understanding of the integral relationship between architectural quality and shared public spaces ensures that our designs enhance community identity and vitality.

With a holistic approach to the built environment, Lord Aeck Sargent offers expertise in dynamic open spaces, complete streets, and urban amenities. Our design solutions cater to diverse scales and settings, from expansive public plazas to educational outdoor environments. We are dedicated to shaping communities that thrive through thoughtful, integrated design solutions.

Lord Aeck Sargent aims to create buildings that have a restorative, positive impact on their inhabitants and a regenerative impact on the environment. Our design staff, including LEED-accredited architects, daylighting specialists, and energy analysts, have practiced sustainability since the early 1990s and believe in using an analytical approach to optimize building performance through the use of an Integrated Design Process that harnesses in-house building science expertise including energy modeling and daylight analysis, solar geometry studies, and climate analysis into all of our projects. This expertise allows us to understand how complex building systems and the climate interact and to evaluate and prioritize the effectiveness of building design decisions and energy efficiency measures.

LAS was one of the first architecture firms in the country to adopt The 2030 Challenge, an initiative that called on the global building sector to avoid hazardous climate change through the design of renewably powered buildings by 2030. We have also successfully certified more than 100 LEED projects, including LEED Zero Energy and LEED Zero Water certifications, as well as successfully achieving full Living Building Challenge Certification for the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design at Georgia Tech.

We are committed not only to creating buildings with a positive impact on occupants and the environment, but to creating a just and equitable workplace. In February 2017, LAS earned a JUST Label, becoming one of the first 20 architecture firms in the world to earn this distinction and continue to renew it every two years.

Lord Aeck Sargent specializes in historic preservation, seamlessly blending the past and future to enrich communities and architectural landscapes. With over fifty years of expertise, our diverse team of architects, planners, conservators, and designers is dedicated to conserving and revitalizing historic buildings and sites for future generations, all while adhering to client budgets and schedules. Our services encompass a wide array of preservation strategies, from community surveys to building documentation and analysis, ensuring that each project respects the unique history, design, and materials of the structure.

At the heart of our Historic Preservation Practice Area is a commitment to creative and appropriate solutions that honor the past while meeting the needs of the present and future. We recognize historic buildings as integral components of our cultural heritage and essential elements in defining the character of our communities. Whether rehabilitating campus buildings or restoring historic landmarks, our approach prioritizes understanding each structure's historical significance and the goals of those involved, resulting in thoughtful solutions that ensure continued use and relevance. With a team of over fifteen preservation professionals, Lord Aeck Sargent combines extensive experience with a focus on sustainability, leveraging the inherent qualities of historic buildings to create environmentally conscious designs that resonate with both past and future.

Lord Aeck Sargent specializes in a diverse range of architectural planning services, meticulously tailored to meet the unique demands of each project. Our urban design and planning expertise encompasses the meticulous crafting of urban spaces, ensuring functionality, aesthetics, and sustainability are seamlessly integrated. From revitalizing city centers to envisioning new urban developments, we work closely with stakeholders to create vibrant, livable environments that foster community engagement and cultural vitality.

In the realm of academic planning, campus planning, and master planning, we excel in designing educational environments that inspire learning, collaboration, and innovation. Whether conceptualizing a new campus layout, optimizing existing academic facilities, or crafting a comprehensive master plan, we prioritize the creation of adaptable, future-proof spaces that support evolving pedagogical needs. Our strategic approach to preservation planning ensures the thoughtful conservation of historic structures and cultural landmarks, preserving their heritage while accommodating modern functionalities and sustainable practices for continued relevance in the built environment.