Our Principals lead the firm’s commitment to support client goals

We seek and retain employees who value honesty, integrity, enthusiasm, innovation and curiosity, zeal for continuing education, responsiveness and excellence. Most importantly, we seek and maintain people who share our vision and mission.

Understanding this, we encourage the creative spirit by providing an environment of support, which enhances excellence in our service and quality in our design product.

With hundreds of accredited programs of architecture and engineering, SNS selects from and staffs its office with the most talented of people. We value our employees’ abilities, and with the profession seeing simultaneous trends toward specialist and generalist practice, we are able to maintain both with a diversified staff of professionals to get the job done right from the onset.

SNS is a team player. After all, the building process is a collaborative one. The team includes clients, architects, engineers, consultants, contractors, attorneys and building officials. SNS understands the building process and has enjoyed a great reputation of being a firm of results; from program, design and bidding, to successful building approvals, construction and post-occupancy evaluation.

All projects in our firm are headed by a principal who is actively involved in the project from inception to completion. All the resources of the firm, including the expertise of the other principals, are available to each project. Our office is totally integrated with architects, interior designers, and civil and structural engineers; this maximizes the resources available to a specific project. We select and assign staff to assist the partner based on the needs and experience required for the particular project.

With the importance we place on all our projects, and the understanding that a satisfied client is a repeat client, we make every effort to assemble a project team which has a comprehensive list of experience and a good measure of individual talent. Our people are cognizant of our clients’ concerns with design and construction schedules and are accustomed to respect this very important element in the design process.

A team of professionals and support personnel is assigned to each project, based on the type and size of the job. Specific expertise, experience and chemistry are only some of the qualities we look for in the members of the team.

The team must be “right” for the client, the project and our office environment. Our professionals have high regard for our clients and work with total dedication toward the successful completion of each task.

Design

Design dwells somewhere between the disciplines of science and art. Although some firms may be content with functional solutions to problems at hand, SNS responds with design that are pragmatic, valuable and aesthetic. We incorporate solutions with a wide variety of human, physical, and external factors; this results in spaces that bear vitality, productivity, flexibility, identity and innovation.

Service

With an 80% repeat clientele, we take our clients’ satisfaction seriously. Our creative staff makes opportunities out of unexpected and limiting situations. As a “can do” organization, we respond to our clients’ problems rapidly, with enthusiasm, clarity and innovation. As a firm that has grown up with developer and corporate clientele, we understand that a project is successful only when it is completed on time and on budget.

Value

As part of a mature firm, we know that our value to our clients is measured by the value we add to their projects. This may be by the materials or methods we select, or the innovative way we use them. Good design has greater value and the results are visible.

Philosophy

We listen. Each project is unique and requires specific resolutions.

We listen carefully. Our clients’ objectives and ultimate goals determine our methods and solutions so that an effective and smooth transition can be achieved between intent, execution and realization.

Flexibility is of paramount importance in our design approach. Whether the project is large or small, the level of service and attention is the same. Each design must provide our clients with the comfort that the absolute best has been achieved; aesthetically, efficiently and cost effectively with rapid response and adherence to schedules.

We solve problems. Problems and unexpected conditions on a project are challenges we meet and resolve every day. It is not enough making the most of advantageous conditions and compensating for the limitations; we enhance each project by going beyond the obvious solution and provide value that goes far beyond the fee of our services.

This is done with our response to our clients’ human, physical or external programming factors.

By listening to our clients’ objectives and understanding our clients’ goals, we synthesize program and form, materials and methods with creativity and innovation to provide spaces of vitality and identity.

Such spaces remain cost effective, flexible, and efficient with proper project management – a trait we have learned well in our almost five decades of practice.

We design. Teamwork and personal responsibility are ingrained in our design philosophy with projects served directly by Partners and associates; we remain “on top” of all conditions that may arise.

We are collaborative. Relationships with our consultants and close coordination of their work result in excellence of the end product.

We are contingent. on the mutual trust and respect of our team members and our clients. The success of the project and the level of satisfaction of our clients is the reason for our professional longevity and our continuing success.