Contract - September 2014 - 18

industry news

News in Brief

Enter the Interiors Awards
by September 23

Entries are now being accepted in
15 project categories-including large
and small office, hotels, restaurants,
healthcare, retail, education, adaptive
re-use, and student-for the 36th Annual
Interiors Awards presented by Contract.
The deadline is September 23, 2014.
Jurors include 2014 Designer of the
Year Krista Ninivaggi. Winners will be
published in the January/February
2015 issue of Contract and honored
at the Interiors Awards Breakfast
in New York on January 30, 2015.
contractdesign.com/interiorsawards

Stantec Acquires ADD Inc
Stantec is acquiring ADD Inc, a 210person architecture, interior design,
planning, and branding firm focused on
workplace, retail, hospitality, and
academic design based in Boston and
Miami. The deal helps Stantec strengthen
its capabilities in the eastern U.S.
Stantec's staff will total more than 6,400
employees in the U.S. with this acquisition.
NeoCon East is October 29-30

Now in its 12th year, NeoCon East will be
held at the Baltimore Convention Center,
October 29-30. The two-day event will
showcase more than 250 exhibitors
across a range of sectors including
workplace, government, healthcare,
hospitality, retail, education, and public
spaces. More than 35 CEU-accredited
seminars and forums are scheduled.

Shashi Caan will deliver a keynote.
Contract Editor in Chief John Czarnecki
will moderate a panel on the state of
the design industry with the Design
Leadership Council at 3 p.m. on
October 29.
HOK Acquires 360 Architecture
HOK has agreed to acquire 360
Architecture, giving the firm a significant
new presence in Kansas City when the
deal finalizes in October. Known for its
design of stadiums, wellness centers,
mixed-use entertainment districts, and
commercial office buildings, 360
Architecture has about 180 staff in its
home office of Kansas City, as well as
in San Francisco and Columbus, Ohio.

Netherlands-based ARCADIS employs
22,000 people. John Jastrem, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Callison,
told Contract: "Like the many other
companies in the ARCADIS family, we
expect to maintain our brand identity,
with the addition of the reference, 'an
ARCADIS company,' added to our name.
This approach will enable us to introduce
other service providers in the ARCADIS
family to our clients."

ASID Protocols for Health and
Wellness in Design to be Developed
The American Society of Interior
Designers (ASID), in partnership with 11
organizations, announced its new Clinton
Global Initiative (CGI) commitment to
developing ASID Protocols for Health
Callison Acquired by ARCADIS
and Wellness in Design to improve the
The architecture and design firm Callison, well-being of people through better
which has more than 1,000 staff in 12
building design and construction. ASID
offices, is being acquired by ARCADIS, a
will train 40,000 interior designers and
global natural and built asset design and architects across the U.S. to implement
consultancy firm that also owns RTKL.
these protocols beginning next year.

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