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Founded in 1928, AIA San Diego remains committed to connecting architects with the community through advocacy for design, planning, sustainability, education, professional development, and civic leadership.

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Architects Mosher Drew (AMD) was founded in 1948 by Robert Mosher, FAIA, and Roy Drew, AIA, and we celebrated 70 years of service in the Southern California region in 2018. Our firm has enjoyed the honor of authoring numerous landmark projects in the San Diego Area, including the Coronado Bridge, UCSD Math and Science Building, SDSU Love Library, and the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park.

AVRP Studios is widely known across the region for its decades of design excellence, creativity, and planning some of the most prominent, visionary, and vibrant projects in Southern California. Located at 703 16th St., San Diego, CA 92101, AVRP strives to find and develop an original idea that drives the creative process for each project.

The BakerNowicki Design Studio provides specialized services for Educational Architecture. Headquartered in San Diego, the studio serves its clients through four primary strategies: Integrated Project Design & Delivery; Collaborative Planning Processes; Sustainable Design Strategies; Innovative Solutions to Challenging Needs. BNds is recognized for design excellence and known for performance and dedication to client service.

Delawie Architects build partnerships with our clients and the community through experience, creativity, and integrity.

Since 1961, Delawie has made a lasting impact on Southern California’s built environments with designs that complement skylines, activate learning environments, transform communities, create corporate identities, and advance the functionality of civic and government facilities.

DGA is one of California's leading advanced firms specializing in the design of technical facilities for the advancement of the life sciences, technology, mission critical, healthcare and education.

Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and more than 7,000 professionals networked across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, the firm works globally with more than 4,000 clients across more than 29 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, community, and health sectors. We are guided by our mission to create a better world through the power of design and believe the source of our strength is our people.

For over 40 years, Grant + Associates has been, and remains, San Diego County’s top rated independent rep agency. A boutique firm specializing in Lighting, Site Furnishings and Custom Ceiling Systems for the commercial architectural community. Our personal service leads the way.

Since 1974, Harris & Associates improves communities and creates better places to live through smart, safe, sustainable planning, design, and construction solutions. Harris is a 100% employee-owned company focused on helping communities solve today's complex challenges in planning, funding, environmental compliance, civil engineering, and construction management. Our offices and project sites span the West Coast in California and Washington with a staff of over 200 employee owners focused on serving clients in the municipal, water, transportation, and education markets.

As planners and landscape architects, KTUA is focused on the principles of healthy placemaking – a collaborative process for reshaping the public realm of our neighborhoods, communities and regions.

LPA is a multi-discipline firm focused on collaboration, inclusion and an integrated design process that connects building performance and design excellence. Our success and influence on the industry reflects a culture that emphasizes diversity, education and promoting young talent, including CEO Wendy Rogers, who took over the role in 2017 after 30 years with the firm, starting as an intern.

The Miller Hull Partnership is an architecture and planning firm rooted in environmentally-responsible designs that create a regenerative and inclusive future. The firm is widely recognized for public and private projects that actively engage the site and their communities. Professional services also include master planning, urban design and interior design services for spaces where people Live, Work, Learn, Gather and Serve. Miller Hull has received over 350 local, regional and national awards for design excellence, including the notable AIA National Firm Award.

Schmidt Design Group’s 2023 Internship Program!

We are seeking motivated, inquisitive, and collaborative University students for our 2023 Internship Program. The internship offers an opportunity to gain practical studio experience coupled with research-driven analysis supporting the advancement of our firm and the profession.

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Based in San Diego, California, the firm works throughout the Southwestern United States and has built a varied body of work ranging from private residences to affordable housing, mixed-use, civic, and urban planning projects. The firm has received numerous design awards, including three National American Institute of Architects Honor Awards. The California Council of the American Institute of Architects named Studio E one of California's Emerging Talents in 1999. Studio E's collaborative approach extends to its successful use of client and community workshops in the design process. The work of the office is noted for its understanding of place, its authenticity and its inventive optimism.

Balfour Beatty is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. That’s really exciting and easy to get passionate about!

For more than a century, Clark has delivered assets and infrastructure that strengthen our nation.

Our portfolio spans every major building market, from public to private, corporate to cultural, education to entertainment, and the infrastructure connecting it all – power, transit, water, and roadways.

We delight and deliver value to our clients and project partners, provide diverse opportunities for the Clark team, and enhance the communities where we live.

DPR Construction is a unique technical builder with a passion for results. Ranked among the top 50 general contractors in the country since 1997, we are a global self-performing commercial contractor and construction manager that has grown with our customers by delivering measurably more value. Whether a multi-million-dollar technical facility or a conference room renovation, we execute every project with relentless accountability. We listen to your goals. We develop strategies based on your business. We track our performance. We do everything we can to earn your trust and build great lasting relationships and raving fans.

Incorporated in 1987, our core expertise is in managing complex development and construction activities for private and public clients. Our people, processes, and technology aim to maximize the value in every owner’s investment.

Since its humble beginning in 1937, Hensel Phelps has grown as a family of hard-working individuals into a world-class builder. Exploring new markets and partnerships, investing in diversity and our communities, and forging new opportunities, we are dedicated to serving our people, our neighbors, our partners and all those who aspire to build a better future.

Hensel Phelps is committed to continuing our legacy—not only through brick and mortar landmarks but through the integrity of our team members. Through the years, these core values have represented our company as well as each individual that make our projects possible: Ownership, Integrity, Builder, Diversity and Community. These values, paired with our ambitious vision and drive to succeed, are what define Hensel Phelps and will ensure our continued growth and EXCELLENCE for generations to come.

Level 10 Construction is committed to being the best builder in the industry. We continually strive to exceed industry norms in project performance, client retention and team member satisfaction. To that end, we believe that perfection is a worthy – and attainable – pursuit. We continually and methodically seek ways to add value to our clients’ projects and to deliver unexpected results. The goal is 100% customer satisfaction, whether the customer is a new client, repeat client, design or engineering partner, building user, subcontractor, tradesperson or employee. We are always reaching for that perfect 10, or the highest level, on everything we do. Sometimes the process yields big, company-wide improvements that touch every project; other times the process provides incremental improvements that are project- or client-specific. Either way, we are continually improving and making ourselves more valuable as builders.

Turner is a North America-based, international construction services company and is a leading builder in diverse market segments. The company has earned recognition for undertaking large and complex projects, fostering innovation, embracing emerging technologies, and making a difference for their clients, employees and community. With a staff of over 10,000 employees, the company completes $15 billion of construction on 1,500 projects each year. Turner offers clients the accessibility and support of a local firm with the stability and resources of a multi-national organization.

Through our O’C Insight platform, OCMI delivers an all-encompassing menu of in-house solutions, from cost and schedule control, to construction and project management. A tailored approach to solution-oriented project execution, services under the O’C Insight umbrella bring together the best of OCMI: expert staff, knowledge sharing, and an out-of-the-box approach.

From small renovations to complex billion dollar projects; from sports arenas to water treatment plants and petrochemical facilities, PCL has you covered.

We redefine full-service and bring expertise across all project types, at all scales and under all procurement models. As innovative solution providers and construction specialists, we leverage our expertise to customize the right approach for your project to exceed your expectations.

Collaborative, driven and innovative: we're focused on finding the best way forward and elevating your vision of success.

In the last six decades, Rudolph and Sletten has built thousands of projects across our five California offices, from research centers designed to cure diseases, to institutions that educate future generations, to civic facilities and high-tech campuses that move our state forward.

Webcor builds flagship structures, infrastructure projects, luxury residential buildings, luxury hotels, as well as healthcare and higher education campuses.

Whiting-Turner provides construction management, general contracting, design-build and integrated project delivery services on projects small and larger for diverse group of customers. We constantly strive to exceed each clients’ expectations though innovations, collaboration and best practices.

ACCO’s driving force is to satisfy the complex, engineered systems needs of buildings/facilities. We do this in a value-added, cost effective one-stop shop manner by:

• Using our best in class know how to deliver customized, value-added systems at a competitive level

• Structuring exceptional value deals

• Leveraging our Project Management and delivery capability to take control, deliver with speed, and provide a single point of accountability

We deliver innovative electrical construction projects, specialty services, and renewable energy solutions across all market sectors.

Since 1938, Baker has delivered solar & electrical contracting services throughout California with uncompromising quality, innovation, and integrity. Our experience includes projects in healthcare, education, hospitality/gaming, multifamily housing, solar power, public works and more.

Since our inception in 1946, Bergelectric has made its mark in the construction industry by providing the highest quality electrical contracting for all our projects.

With the dedication of more than 2,900 employees coast to coast, Bergelectric has constructed world-class commercial, biotech, healthcare, correctional, educational, entertainment, government, hospitality, industrial, renewable energy, and retail facilities nationwide.

California Sheet Metal is a leading General Sheet Metal, Composite Panel and Ornamental Metal fabricator and installer in the Southern California area (also licensed to work in Arizona and Nevada). For more than 100 years, we have proudly called San Diego home and provided customers in the commercial and public construction industries with the highest quality products and services in a timely and cost effective manner. California Sheet Metal works with architects, owners and contractors in the concept, design, production and installation phases of projects both large and small — always working as partners, always making customer goals the top priority. We consistently maintain the highest quality output thanks in large part to our union affiliation, which provides us with superior trade and safety training for our employees.

From our beginnings in HVAC solutions, we have steadily invested in the people, technology, and services to be our customers’ trusted business partner for building solutions. Today, we are one of the leading providers of building technologies and energy solutions in the nation – delivering results for thousands of customers, every day. Our strategic business partners include the world’s leading suppliers of building automation, security, life safety, and energy efficiency technologies. And since 2015, we have been Bosch’s foundation for turnkey building technology and efficiency solutions in North America.

Founded in 1985, Helix Electric is now one of the largest electrical contracting companies in the nation specializing in design-build and highly complex electrical projects. We deliver consistently powerful results by bringing passion, partnership and pride to every project and by building strong relationships with our clients based on honesty, trust and reliability.

La Mesa Glass is a proud family-owned commercial glazing contractor. Continually operated under our original business license since our inception, we are known for our highly quality technical glazing skills and for exceeding expectations on complex and demanding projects. We have been professionally installing glass in San Diego since 1977, and we are here to stay.

For more than 20 years NGi has been raising the bar of excellence in every sector of our specialized trade services. By combining our deep investment in pre-construction design and BIM technologies with our focused team approach yielding perfect execution, we are able to perform at the highest level of on time, on budget quality output that sets us apart from our competition.

ORCO Block & Hardscape (ORCO) is a leading Southern California manufacturer of Concrete Masonry Units, ORCO Concrete Pavingstones, Segmental Retaining Wall units, OBP Specialty Mortars, Outdoor Fireplace Units and ORCO Natural Stone. With over 75 years of service, ORCO has earned the reputation for high quality products, outstanding customer service, and leadership in environmentally responsive solutions. All of our products contribute to Low Impact Development, drought tolerance, and LEED solutions.

Pacific Coast Glazing Inc., located in San Diego CA, has extensive experience in the glazing industry. We furnish and install Windows, Storefronts, Curtainwall, and Glazing for a wide variety of projects throughout California, Arizona and Nevada. We have valued experience in Anti-Terrorism Force Protection (ATFP), DOD and GSA projects. We are eager to be part of a Design Assist team and offer helpful input and knowledge.

What began as one of Southern California’s original lath and plaster companies has grown into one of the wall and ceiling industry’s leading full service, design-assist, specialty finish and theming contractors. One thing that hasn’t changed in the more than 85 years since The Raymond Group got its start is our passion, both for building unique and exciting projects and for our people.

We are recognized as one of the premier contractors in San Diego, Riverside and Orange counties because of our focus on providing a quality product. In 2008, we were named the AGC of San Diego’s Specialty Contractor of the Year. We take pride in our craftsmanship and pride in providing our clients with a final product that exceeds their expectations. We excel at helping our clients expedite the job schedule. This is especially true when we perform both the structural concrete and the rough carpentry and are able to use our expertise to propel the project to an earlier completion date. This is accomplished by working with integrity, incorporating new technologies, maintaining long term, hard working and conscientious employees and above all working safely.

We are Standard Drywall Inc. (SDI), a top five largest nationally ranked contractor per Engineering News-Record (ENR) in the wall and ceiling industry focused on hospitality, entertainment, healthcare, and education construction. With over 34 years of experience, SDI has grown to seven full service regional offices with flexibility to efficiently mobilize project site teams throughout the Western U.S. within the time frame necessary to ensure a successful project.