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Healthcare Team talks Dental Office Design with Stan Kinder

Healthcare Team talks Dental Office Design with Stan Kinder

Principal and Member of the PRA Healthcare Design team, Renee Moe, AIA, EDAC and Jeff Carter, DDS of the newly integrated Practice Design Group were recently interviewed for the podcast ‘Success Strategies for Dental Practice Owners’ with Stan Kinder. Together, the group discusses how dental office design influences patient anxiety levels and overall experience in healthcare facilities.

Through listening to their conversation, listeners can unlock key insights essential for dental practice owners striving for success.

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Dr. Melissa Thompson Talks Education Strategy

Dr. Melissa Thompson Talks Education Strategy

Insights from the Director of Education Strategy on Budget Constraints, Staffing Shortages, and Technological Advancements in Learning Environments

Director of Education Strategy, Dr. Melissa Thompson, was recently featured in the Education Market Association’s (EdMarket) Essentials publication, to discuss the status of Education.

Educators, Dr. Thompson highlights, are grappling with budget constraints, staffing shortages, and the rapid evolution of technology. Budget constraints and funding issues prevent updates to learning spaces and furniture purchases,

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PRA RECEIVES ACCOLADES AT THE 2024 ASID WISCONSIN DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS GALA

PRA RECEIVES ACCOLADES AT THE 2024 ASID WISCONSIN DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS GALA

When engaged in projects, the greatest satisfaction lies in delivering practical and visually pleasing solutions to our clients that align with their vision and needs. Our mission is to enhance their lives by enhancing their spaces, so it’s truly gratifying when our joint endeavors with clients are acknowledged by our peers through awards. This year at the 2024 ASID Wisconsin’s Design Excellence Awards Gala our collaborative teams were recognized for FIVE ASID Awards:

  • Pepsi Office Awarded Gold
  • West Edge Apartments Awarded Gold
  • Lincoln High School in Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools Awarded Gold
  • Sauk Prairie High School in Sauk Prairie School District Awarded Bronze
  • Suncoast Orthopaedic Surgery &
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PRA Formally Integrates Dental Design Services

PRA Formally Integrates Dental Design Services

PRA Healthcare Design Expands Services

The PRA Healthcare Design Studio now integrates Dental Design Services following a merger with the Practice Design Group (PDG) of Buda TX. This merger follows twelve years of collaboration between PRA and PDG resulting in successful projects across the nation. Dental design practitioners Jeff Carter, DDS and Pat Carter, IIDA formally join the Healthcare Design Studio to work internally within PRA alongside the Healthcare Design professionals they have mentored for many years.

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PRA Promotes Renee Moe to Principal

PRA Promotes Renee Moe to Principal

PRA Healthcare Design Strengthens Leadership

The PRA Healthcare Design Studio is expanding leadership with the formal promotion of healthcare architect and dental planner Renee Moe to Principal in the firm.

Renee is a licensed architect with many distinctions in both architectural design and architectural technology including certifications as an EDAC, CDT, CCA, and CSI professional. She has wide project experience including projects for clinics, medical office buildings, and hospitals for healthcare providers throughout the nation.

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PRA Promotes Jedd Heap to Partner

PRA Promotes Jedd Heap to Partner

PRA Continues Leadership Growth in Florida

We are again expanding the PRA leadership group, this time in our Sarasota Design Office with the promotion of Jedd Heap to Partner.

Jedd is a licensed Florida Architect who joined the firm in 2020. Recent examples of his completed projects include the new law offices for Berlin Patten Ebling in St. Petersburg FL, The Gulf Coast Community Foundation Philanthropy Center in Sarasota FL, St.

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The Value of Shared Learning Spaces

The Value of Shared Learning Spaces

Education is becoming flexible with the traditional walls of the classroom evolving into shareable spaces. The traditional classroom has enclosed walls limiting students and teachers to four permanent walls. Creating large, flexible, shared spaces in education facilities encourages malleability for more than just learning.

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Rewards of Being an Architect

Rewards of Being an Architect

A message to aspiring architects

This day, the day following Thanksgiving 2023, has been spent counting my blessings. One blessing that has impacted every corner of my life, is the blessing of being an architect.

I love being an architect. We get to help clients every day, and we work at the convergence of creativity, technology, and innovation. The work can be invigorating, and I sometimes continue to ponder the day’s challenges on my drive home or in the morning shower,

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