Clark & Enersen

Clark & Enersen is a leading, full-service design firm serving clients across the nation from its offices in Charleston, South Carolina; Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Lawrence, Kansas; Fort Collins, Colorado; and Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1946, they offer a comprehensive in-house team with design professionals in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering, as well as commissioning. They also have experts in community and stakeholder engagement, construction administration, digital experience design, energy modeling, grant assistance, interior design, laboratory planning, land development, and sustainable and human-centered design.

Their firm has a dedicated team of individuals who specialize in planning and design of science and technology facilities, having completed more than $6 billion worth of this project type in the last seven years alone, including over 9 million square feet of laboratory space. In total, they have worked with 79 universities and colleges in 25 states. Their design professionals leverage their extensive experience to ask clients the right questions, benchmark their needs compared to peer institutions, and provide input that results in state-of-the-art facilities that foster research, learning, and discovery.

Clark & Enersen has an expansive portfolio of work across the project types of civic, corporate, government, healthcare, higher education, housing, PK-12 education, science and technology, sports and recreation, and worship. Specifically in the science and technology category, their firm specializes in planning and designing agricultural research facilities; analytical laboratories; biocontainment spaces; career technical education facilities; clean rooms; clinical laboratories; engineering facilities; health sciences facilities; life sciences facilities; physical and earth sciences facilities; private and public laboratories; research laboratories; research parks; simulation spaces; teaching laboratories; veterinary medicine facilities; and vivaria.

AIA Members:
Craig Park, FSMPS, Associate AIA

Kate Hier, AIA