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Job Openings We’re hiring! We have positions available in our Sacramento office. Please visit our website to view positions and apply. http://www.lpas.com/careers/listings

LPAS Culture Today is a great day at LPAS as we are celebrating three major Anniversaries! Congratulations to Glenn Ovitt, Project Manager and Associate, on 15 years and Congratulations to both Production Manager and Principal, Phil Titus, and Senior Construction Project Coordinator, Michael Rhoades, on 10 years! We are very fortunate to have these dedicated and hard-working team members as part of our LPAS Family!

Trending We are proud to have been the first in California to receive the WELL Health-Safety rating and are excited to see the widespread involvement of this movement in our industry! This rating is open to all project types so keep your eye out for the seal and feel confident about the buildings you enter. If you are interested in learning more, contact us to get in touch with LPAS’s very own WELL AP, Kristina Gwinn. #LPASDesign #design #architecture #interiordesign #interior #landscapearchitecture #designer #inspiration #makingbuildingstogether #building #sacramento #project #architect #archilovers #architectslife #designlife #desinginspiration #designstudio #instagood #photooftheday #companyculture #workplace #career #bestworkplace #coronavirus #sacramento #leadersindesign #officeofthefuture #wellhealthsafetyrating

Project Post It’s great to see the Assisted Living and Memory Care courtyards taking shape on our Bruceville Point project in Elk Grove. Included in the space is a bocce ball court, putting green, outdoor kitchen, generous landscape and gathering spaces. The project will also feature a community garden.

LPAS Culture Today we are celebrating Senior Project Architect and Associate, Ray Welter, on his 5 Year Anniversary! Ray is a dedicated team member and we’re very lucky to have him on our team. Congratulations Ray!

Trending | LPAS is extremely honored to be ranked an outstanding 8th in-the-nation on Fortune’s annual list of 100 Best Small Workplaces for 2020. As the only architectural firm on the list, LPAS boasts a 98% employee satisfaction rate compared to national average of 59%. Anonymous employee surveys included feedback such as: The company realizes that its employees are its greatest asset. Although the goal of the company is to create built environments, and to stay profitable, the welfare of its employees seems to be their primary concern.

LPAS Culture We would like to wish a Happy Boss’s Day to our Shareholders with great appreciation to them through this past year! We are fortunate to have Brady’s, Ron’s, and Curtis’s mentorship and guidance as we continue to improve and grow as a firm. Under their leadership this year, we have become Great Place to Work-Certified and we feel very fortunate to work in an environment with our leaders making employee experience a priority every day. Once a year really isn’t enough to express how much our LPAS family appreciates you every day!

LPAS Culture We are proud to announce that LPAS won 3rd place in the Sacramento Business Journal’s 2020 Best Places to Work awards! Based on employee feedback and engagement in six categories, including teamwork, trust, compensation and benefits, LPAS scored 96 out of 100 points to be named one of the top 3 medium sized companies (50-149 employees) to work at in the region. We are fortunate to have a workplace that is committed to keeping our collaboration, communication, and culture a priority and we are honored that this commitment is being recognized in this way.

LPAS Culture We are proud sponsors for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento upcoming Virtual Gala and 35th Year Anniversary Celebration. In preparation, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento asked us to do a short video featuring one of our LPAS employees on what home means to them, so we were thrilled when our very own SP volunteered this amazing contribution as she just became a first time home buyer!

Have you heard of the Oak Park Tool Library? This project will establish a community-run lending library of tools for Sacramento residents. Think of the times w...hen you have needed a tool and just didn't have it. Your options boil down to borrowing the tool if you know someone who has it; buying the tool; renting the tool; or hiring a professional instead. For many people on limited incomes, it is not feasible to buy or rent a special tool or hire a professional. The Oak Park Tool Library will help address this problem by being a friend you can count on to lend you the tool you need. Although the tool library will help ensure people who are short on cash can borrow a tool when needed, the library will be open to everyone. It's good for all of us to get in the habit of lending and borrowing, and it's good for the environment for us to share tools. The Oak Park Tool Library has been adopted as a project of Alchemist CDC and will eventually be located at the Oak Park Art Garden (Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. & 12th/14th Ave in Sacramento). We have quite a bit of fundraising to do in order to make this possible. If you are a member of the community and would like to write a letter of support for the project that can be included with a major upcoming grant application, please let us know! While the Art Garden is already an incredible space, we can't wait to see it become the community-planned space the neighborhood has been dreaming of. Thank you so much to Thais Del Castillo of LPAS Architecture + Design who has been doing pro bono work translating community dreaming into an actual plan. She provided us with the rendering below.

Project Post - We received these awesome progress shots from @modern_chico of our Chico project, MP Blocks Apartments at Meriam Park. Within the pedestrian-centric Tank District where unique restaurants, bars, and retail thrive, these garden style apartments will provide new upscale living options. The modern architecture and landscape will create a desirable community with high end amenities: a clubhouse, fitness center, a yoga studio, pet spa, parcel package center, outdoor lounges with kitchen spaces, a large pool and spa, private cabanas, bocce ball court, fire pits, and BBQs. The outdoor courtyard and rooftop lounge will create outdoor social gathering places and views to the pool and adjacent one acre park. Visit www.meriampark.com to learn more!

Trending LPAS Vice President and Principal, Ron Metzker, was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday in a Designer Profile article describing his draw to contemporary architecture and how it’s reflected in our projects at LPAS. The Palisades project at the Shipyard in San Francisco is shown as an example of how LPAS works to achieve authenticity through modern design.

Project Post | As summer turns to fall, it’s great to see the landscape design still going strong at our UC Davis projects, the Anne E. Pitzer Center Recital Hall and Central Cage Wash Facility. We love to see how these landscapes showcase native plants and get better over time. : Michael Ude, LPAS Landscape Architecture Job Captain

Trending | Gio Apartments has been awarded Best Mixed Mixed-Use Residential/Retail Project in the Sacramento Business Journal’s 2019-2020 Best Real Estate Projects of the Year Awards. Congratulations to the entire project team including Allegiant Development Company and Brown Construction. Project Team: Developer Allegiant Development Company, Inc.... Builder Brown Construction Architect LPAS Architecture + Design Mechanical Engineer LDI Mechanical Electrical Engineer Barnum & Celillo Electric Plumbing Engineer JR Pierce Plumbing Co. Structural Engineer Miyamoto International Civil Engineer RSC Engineering Geotechnical Engineer Youngdahl Consulting Group Landscape Architect LPAS Architecture + Design Interior Design LPAS Architecture + Design

Trending The Hub Apartments project has been honored as Multi-Family Community of the Year by the North State Building Industry Association. LPAS is proud to have helped create this new luxury apartment community in Folsom, CA with @cresleighhomes

Project Post Over the past couple of years we’ve partnered with @alchemistcdc to develop plans for a community art garden and food forest in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento. We’re excited to share the vision for a project with so much potential to serve the neighborhood with healthy food, creative artistic expressions, community gathering, and tool lending library!

Our LPAS Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento entry: Company: LPAS Architecture + Design Team pictured: (left to right) Rachel Crabb, Becky McCormick, Melissa Sabala, Heidi Roseler-Kerby, Katherine Gella, Puppy Nova and Bethanie Taylor ... Fort structure: All parts of the fort were built with items we had already in our homes and in the office. The fort infrastructure was constructed from office coat rakes, office chairs and tables, mobile white board, rope, large plotter paper cardboard tubes to help with height, duct tape, packing tape, clothing pins, and binder clips. The fort siding was made from personal blankets, bed sheets, and fake grass ground cover. To add a special cozy LPAS touch, we decorated it with lights, foliage, trees, plants, sticks, pillows, battery operated candles, employee photos on the rear wall, and of course wine bottles and smores by our fireplace (lit with battery operated candles and gift tissue paper to make it feel more real). Description: Our fort allows us to feel at home while away from home (at work). When we need a break from the computer and need to relieve some stress, we turn on the candlelight and cozy up in fuzzy pillows and blankets to take a nap or read a book, all in the comfort of our fort. We love to hang out with our colleges and collaborate around the fireplace eating smores, drinking wine and talking about weekend plans. Office pictures hung up on the back wall bring fond memories we have shared during the year and gets us excited to brainstorm ideas for next year events. LPAS is not just a company with employees, it’s a family. Not only is it a joy to hang out in the fort with my fellow Women Builders but the creative discussions we have had on design and building the fort itself brought us closer together and was a lot of fun! This challenge isn’t just about building a fort but also friendships and experiences. Covid can’t stop us, women keep on building! Habitat for Humanity ‘Women Build 2020’

LPAS Culture Last week some of our amazing LPAS ladies (and a really cute puppy) participated in the Fort Building Challenge as part of Habitat for Humanity’s Virtual Women Build Event, ‘Keep Building.’ We want to thank Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento for providing the opportunity for us to give back to our community by doing what we love most Making Buildings Together! #LPASDesign #design #architecture #interiordesign #interior #landscapearchitecture #designer #inspiration #makingbuildingstogether #building #sacramento #project #architect #archilovers #architectslife #designlife #desinginspiration #designstudio #companyculture #workplace #career #keepbuildingforward #womenbuildsac #keepbuilding2020