Our architects specialize in educational building design, parking garage design, and residential architecture in urban development. We also design office and retail buildings, commercial, historical restoration, LEED, and government projects. Graves Design Group is an architectural firm in Pittsburgh that provides architectural design, interior design, design/build, and graphic design services. As the successor firm to Graves Architects, Inc., we serve a variety of public, private, and non-profit clients since 1988.
Residential housing design projects are a core part of our architectural design business. With a focus on university dormitories, single family houses and townhouses, other section 504/UFAS HUD housing design and development projects, and specific urban or city high-rise apartment buildings. Graves Design Group has provided architectural design services to home owners, designer, developers, and government agencies to facilitate everyone's need in designing, developing and constructing residential housing properties.
We were delighted for the opportunity to work with Highmark, Lichtenfels Nursery, CentiMark and Oxford Development on the largest Green Roof in South Western Pennsylvania in 2008. The feasibility study with cost estimates steered the client through options of major types of green roof systems. As part of their commitment to a healthier environment, HighMark wanted to transform a routine roof repair into a green opportunity for building users, neighbors and the city of Pittsburgh. The project improves thermal insulation to reduced costs for heating and cooling the building.
One of the more specialized architectural design services Graves Design Group provides is in the area of historic restoration and preservation. These historical restoration projects of existing buildings or structures with varying historic significance are particularly challenging because they require the architect to preserve the essence of the buildings and environment while incorporating modern design and development improvements and practices in a structure that was not originally designed for them.
Graves Design Group offers innovative design solutions to clients who seek a full range of design services in architecture, interiors, and graphics in either a design-bid-build or design/build scenario. We are a diverse Pittsburgh, PA based architectural design firm with expertise in various architecture project types. We apply decades of experience while addressing the functional and technical aspects of the architectural design of a particular project for a unique and creative design solution.
Our core business at Graves Design Group is in architectural design. We can prepare full architectural and engineering documents suitable for project management and construction by qualified builders in the traditional design/ bid/ build scenario or in the increasingly popular design/build approach. The actual scope of these architectural services varies from project to project but most include schematic design, architectural design development, construction documents, bidding, and construction management administration.
While the types of sustainable architecture design styles vary widely, most projects are either contemporary new architectural structures or historical renovations of existing buildings. Graves Design Group offers LEED certified expertise and practices sustainability in all of our architect design projects, using environmentally-conscious design techniques. In the broad context, we seek to minimize the negative environmental impact of design and development of our buildings and their long term operating/maintenance costs by enhancing the efficiency of systems, maximizing the use of environmentally friendly building materials, designing for green space where possible, and other techniques.
As a sub-category of Sustainability, we can provide Green Architecture, which is an approach to building that minimizes harmful effects on human health and the environment. The industry is incorporating many elements of green design, as a whole. However, some of our clients may wish to go beyond the generally acceptable industry standard and take new innovative approaches to further safeguard air, water, and earth in their choice of eco-friendly building materials and construction practices. Grave Design Group makes a conscious effort to make an architecrual design impact to enhance the quality of the envrionment by going green with their architecural solutions.
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