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About KPS Group

About Us

Established in 1965, KPS Group provides architecture, interior design, planning, and related consulting services across the southeast region from our Birmingham, Alabama headquarters and office in Huntsville. Our clients include businesses and corporations, developers, institutions, governments, community organizations, non-profits, and general contractors. Our reputation for designs that satisfy functional and technical expectations while enriching the lives of the people that use them is founded on experience, integrity, seamless collaboration with our clients and consultants, and aggressive stewardship of resources − from the environment to budgets. We are honored to have been recognized by our peers with more than 100 design awards, and are most proud of the numerous accolades and awards we’ve received from user, client, and community organizations that recognize KPS projects for significantly exceeding expectations and adding tangible value to their function.

Our goals on every project are to provide you with a consistently positive experience working with us, to exceed your expectations with designs and services that add tangible value to your endeavors, and to create great places for people.

While the designs and services we provide for each project are unique, our high priority for customer service is common to all of them. Our clients can count on personalized service from high level principals and design staff involved in the day-to-day activities of every project. We take pride in being easy to work with and solutions-oriented. Our depth of staff allows us to adequately staff even the largest project with qualified teams that combine the insight of seasoned veterans with the fresh perspective of more recent graduates in a dynamic environment that encourages growth.

The most important thing about KPS is the attitude and character of our people. Everything we do is customized for each client, not a one-size-fits-all approach. We train our staff to understand how to engage our clients at a deeper level, allowing us to offer a more targeted, streamlined, and focused approach to their needs.

Our firm is organized into practice groups that reflect the firm’s primary areas of expertise:

Workplace & Technology

Workplace design can significantly impact both operating costs and behavior, and is an extension of brand – both internally and externally. Today’s workplace must accommodate rapidly evolving technologies and workstyles. We design corporate, government, institutional, and commercial workplace facilities that support your desired organizational objectives and reinforce your brand while offering the flexibility to accommodate change.

  • corporate buildings + interiors
  • investment buildings
  • banking
  • critical facilities
  • laboratories
  • light manufacturing + warehousing

Contact

Architecture: Hugh Thornton, AIA | hthornton@kpsgroup.com
Interiors: Donna Dowling, NCIDQ | ddowling@kpsgroup.com

Pump House Plaza 40,000sf new commercial building in Birmingham anchored by First US Bank - KPS Group Inc

Learning

Heritage Hall at the University of Alabama Birmingham UAB; new state-of-the-art 95,000sf building with classrooms, instructional labs, lecture halls, and faculty offices; primary building for the College of Arts & Sciences includes the Dean’s office; flexible multi-media classrooms accommodate contemporary teaching modalities; programming & architecture by KPS Group Inc in association with Goody Clancy – interior design & landscape architecture by KPS Group Inc

As societal and technological changes increasingly impact education at all levels, our team explores new pedagogies to produce better and more effective facilities for learning. We’ve partnered with institutions of higher learning for over two decades to produce a wide range of campus building types; and design pre-K-12 facilities for both public and private schools. KPS is among the foremost campus planning firms in the southeast region.

  • college + university classrooms
  • dormitories
  • student services + dining
  • recreation centers + adapted athletics
  • central plant
  • campus planning + wayfinding
  • pre-K-12 including public, private, & special needs

Contact

Hugh Thornton, AIA | hthornton@kpsgroup.com

Healthcare

We design healthcare-related facilities responsive to the complex operational and technical requirements of contemporary patient-centric care models.  Career specialists in healthcare design, our team has provided comprehensive architecture and interior design for the full range of facility types and functional spaces found in today’s health and wellness environment for both profit and non-profit institutions across the country.

  • hospitals
  • outpatient care
  • freestanding clinics
  • rehabilitation hospitals
  • teaching hospitals
  • public health facilities
  • physician practice groups
  • medical office buildings
  • surgery centers
  • wellness centers
  • student health centers
  • senior assisted living

Contact

Architecture: Topper Parham, AIA | tparham@kpsgroup.com
Interiors: Catherine Brooks, RID | cbrooks@kpsgroup.com

Children's at Lakeshore clinic space

 

Civic & Culture

Ruffner Mountain Nature Center and Park in Birmingham AL; 1011-acre master planned nature preserve with a LEED Gold certified nature center at the primary trailhead; sustainable nature center with animal exhibits + public meeting facilities + outdoor pavilion; green roof and rainwater harvesting; architecture – interior design – planning – landscape architecture by KPS Group Inc

Civic buildings such as courthouses must convey the dignity and importance of government in our society. Airports must balance innovation, efficiency, and security with economics and passenger experience. Design can lift the human spirit and bring people together to worship or experience the arts. We understand the unique functions and the complex operational and technical requirements of these kinds of buildings. KPS brings together highly experienced, integrated teams of specialists to produce landmark buildings that elevate our experience of the cultural and civic realms.

  • government buildings
  • courthouses
  • airports
  • civic open space
  • houses of worship
  • museums
  • libraries
  • performance venues

Contact

Donald Simpson, AIA | dsimpson@kpsgroup.com

Hospitality & Housing

We understand the business of hospitality. With deep industry knowledge and close relationships with the major brands, our hospitality team creates distinctive environments characterized by long-term profitability and customer appeal targeted to demographic. Our assisted living spaces for seniors incorporate industry best practices and forward-thinking trends.

  • all hotel types
  • country clubs
  • senior housing
  • multi-family housing + mixed-use

Contact

G Gray Plosser FAIA | gplosser@kpsgroup.com

Lobby of the Holiday Inn Express Charleston Ashley River by KPS Group Inc

Community

Multipurpose Recreation Facility on the Lakeshore Foundation campus in Birmingham AL; adapted athletic competition and training space for US Paralympic Rugby team and rehabilitation + recreation space for Foundation’s adapted population of users; architecture - interior design - planning by KPS Group Inc

Our collaborative practice that includes architects and urban designers as well as planners maximizes the economic, environmental, and social potential of every project. The places that bind a community together are often the most challenging – in part, because they’re the “in-between” spaces in our communities: parks and civic plazas, historic districts and buildings, trails and corridors, mixed-use developments that create destinations for activity. We understand the complex nature of revitalization and work with cities and communities to preserve their unique character while catalyzing public and private investment.

  • neighborhood revitalization
  • city + community planning
  • urban design
  • parks + recreation
  • community centers

 

Contact

Planning: Jason Fondren, AICP | jfondren@kpsgroup.com
Urban Design: Gray Plosser, FAIA | gplosser@kpsgroup.com

 

KPS GROUP

Bakers Row | Suite 100
60 14th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35233

KPS GROUP

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