Automotive

BMW's 67,000-square-foot training center in Spartanburg, South Carolina, serves as a dynamic hub for performance automotive excellence, workforce development, and technological innovation. To sustain the largest global manufacturing facility, BMW recognized the need to recruit and retain highly skilled employees, leading to the creation of a cutting-edge training center designed to power its workforce pipeline. Sterling E. Stevens Design Photo This state-of-the-art facility serves both as a training destination for current BMW employees and as a hub for outreach programs targeting high school, trade school, and college students. By equipping participants with the necessary skills to excel in advanced manufacturing, BMW is fostering a... More

Brotherton Cadillac opened its doors in the summer of 2023 to customers in the Shoreline, Washington area. The exterior of their beautiful showroom features ALPOLIC metal composite materials in finishes of CPW White and Mica Anodic Clear. In total, 162 sheets of cladding were used (131 of White and 31 of Mica), for an overall total of 14,500 square feet. Katie Stacy Katie Stacy ALPOLIC MCM is a popular choice of building material for automotive dealerships. This combination of colors conveys the elegance and luxury associated with a high-end automotive brand like Cadillac, and MCM is easy to maintain. It's a beautiful look that will last for years. More

Subaru knew that it had to reinvest in its Ann Arbor Research and Development Center to accommodate its growth. The goal was to reimagine the workplace, ensuring offices, conference rooms, labs, amenities, and testing areas functioned together in an integrated manner, elevating the potential for interaction and innovation in research and product development. Working with Subaru and Design-Build partner, ACS, the team defined the project vision and developed a detailed program of requirements that determined the overall scale of the project, as well as specific details for each technical space.   Utilizing strategies from HED’s New Technical Workplace design approach, this 56,000 SF facility is split into two key areas that acco... More

The new Visual Display project for Autostar is a place of work and sharing, a flexible and contemporary office, dedicated to the digital division of the company. Open to the evolutions of the work world, this 400 sqm open space is free from the rules of the physical space, from fixed workstations and regular timetables. This office space accommodates up to 40 people, organized in different clusters and with different types of workstations - single, shared, for laptop, desktop computer -. This space is available to the employees 40/50. The large central volume, entirely encased in a three-dimensional and sound-absorbent felt cover, conceals the technical compartments, the wardrobe and the printer area. It also accommodates the meeting roo... More