Beyond Design Issue.7 November 2006



Many of you have commented on our name change from Meyer Associates to Meyer Design. What does the word "Design" mean to you?

~ Norman Liedtke
President, Meyer Design, Inc.

• Toll Brothers, Inc.
 
• The Real Deal
 
• AutoBudget
 
• Bringing Hope
 
• Cartoon
 
 
 
Toll Brothers, Inc. : Mission Impossible?

Toll Brothers, Inc. was bursting at the seams.

From parking issues to inefficient furniture to - believe it or not - some people even using closets as office space - the company had expanded way beyond the maximum capacity of their headquarters.

Project Objective:
Design and consolidate 5 locations into a 3-story, 200,000 SF headquarters in 6 to 7 months for the nation's leading luxury home builder.

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The Real Deal
Name: Jeff Tertel
Company: Grubb & Ellis

Business Philosophy: Take care of your clients and teammates, and the business will always be there.

When and how did you become involved in commercial real estate?

6 Years ago, I was working part time in a cigar shop and complaining about my then current job, and a great industrial broker from Grubb (Steve Bonge) was hanging out in the cigar shop, and we started talking. I knew he had a lot of fun and enjoyed his work, so I took a leap of faith.

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AutoBudget : An Advanced Eye on your Bottom Line
Meyer Project Rundown
The latest projects to hit the drafting table:

XL America
Capmark Financial Group
Brandywine Senior Living
Virtua Health
PNC Bank
Day & Zimmermann
Bryn Mawr Medical Specialists


How many sleepless nights have you spent thinking about the design and construction of your company's office renovation or relocation, and whether or not it would be completed within budget without compromising design quality?
Meyer Design, Inc. can predict construction costs in the earliest stages of the design process -- on average - within 4 - 9% of the final design and construction costs!!
Meyer Design, Inc. is the only firm in the Mid-Atlantic region that provides this service during the Programming and Schematic Design Phases.
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Bringing Hope to Brazil

by Dan King AIA
Project Manager


Recently I had the opportunity to go on my fourth trip with Engineering Ministries International (or EMI), this time to Recife, Brazil. EMI is a non-profit organization out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, that puts together teams of volunteer Architects and Engineers to go to third world countries to offer design services for local communities and ministries.

Our 'client' this time was a man named Lecio Wanderly, who ran an orphanage in the city of Recife called Kid's Place. It had been his longtime dream to develop a piece of property where he could establish a more open home-like environment for orphans, and create a boys and girls camp like we have here in the States.
His dream was about to be fulfilled.
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Cartoon
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