Home Who We Are Commercial Institutional Education Industrial Healthcare Religious Retail Housing Contact Us	Click on picture to enlarge. Accuride Challenge: To create a technologically advanced manufacturing/office complex that is environmentally sensitive. Solution: Employ energy-conscious measures, such as earth berms at exterior walls, well-insulated roofs and upper walls, and heating/cooling equipment that uses storm-water runoff for a water-based heat pump system. Bowne Click on picture to enlarge. Challenge: To create an innovative design for this image-conscious, international firm that avoids the common look of metal siding and split-face block. Solution: The choice was precast panels stained to add color and warmth, which visually set this building apart from others.