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Dr. Melissa Thompson Talks Education Strategy

05.06.202411.10.2025

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,

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

05.06.202405.06.2024

FIVE ASID Awards are awarded to PRA’s Interior Design Team

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 &

PRA Formally Integrates Dental Design Services

03.01.202403.04.2024

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.

Integrated Design of Wellness Centers

02.13.202402.13.2024

For the past few decades (Mantri 2008) our healthcare system has been evolving from a narrow scope of treating illness and disease to a holistic approach that fosters health for the whole person—addressing physical, social, intellectual, and emotional well-being.

PRA Promotes Renee Moe to Principal

01.16.202401.16.2024

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.

PRA Promotes Jedd Heap to Partner

01.11.202401.11.2024

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.

The Value of Shared Learning Spaces

12.20.202312.20.2023

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.

Project Review: The Village at Harmony Hill

10.23.202311.10.2023

Benedictine Sisters support engaged living

Local citizens, dignitaries, and project participants joined the Sisters from the Mother of God Monastery on August 3rd, 2023 to celebrate the grand opening of the Village at Harmony Hill, in Watertown, South Dakota. This development is a major investment in the people of South Dakota, extending the Sisters’ mission to support the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of the people in the region.

The project,

Benedictine Sisters Unveil “The Village of Harmony Hill”

08.30.202308.31.2023

Plunkett Raysich Architects helps develop a legacy for the Mother of God Monastery

Members of the PRA Senior Living Design Studio recently cheered on the Benedictine Sisters of the Mother of God Monastery. August 3rd, 2023 memorialized an important contribution to senior living with the opening of The Village of Harmony Hill, in Watertown, SD. The Village, phase one of a larger initiative, substantiates a mission-driven commitment to the local community with room for sixty-four seniors.