Architecture
Exceptional design is at the heart of HED’s integrated approach. From day one, we bring every perspective to the table, uniting clients, architects, engineers, and builders, so collaboration fuels smarter, faster decisions. Our nationwide team combines broad sector expertise, diverse collective experience, and the power of design thinking to transform creative concepts into functional, code-compliant, and inspiring spaces that align with your vision, budget, and user needs.
By collaborating seamlessly with engineering, planning, and specialty disciplines, our architects deliver environments that are not only beautiful, but resilient, sustainable, and future-ready. The result is design that inspires people, enhances performance, and reflects the unique aspirations of every client we serve.
Electrical Engineering
Our electrical engineering teams design safe, efficient, and reliable systems that power today’s buildings. From high- and low-voltage distribution to lighting, emergency power, fire alarm, and renewable energy systems, we deliver solutions that meet code, optimize performance, and improve sustainability.
By integrating with architecture and other disciplines from day one, we help clients make faster, more informed decisions with fewer surprises. This proactive collaboration reduces rework, improves cost predictability, and supports resilient outcomes that align with your project goals.
Experiential Graphic Design
Experiential graphic design (EGD) connects people to place by integrating signage, wayfinding, and environmental storytelling into the built environment. From exhibitions and branded spaces to digital displays and interpretive graphics, our solutions provide clarity, reinforce identity, and create memorable experiences.
Because our EGD team is embedded within the project team, collaboration happens in real time. This reduces missteps, accelerates decision-making, and results in design that feels seamlessly part of the architecture, not applied after the fact. And clients receive a more predictable and unified outcome.
Information & Communications Technology
Our Information & Communications Technology (ICT) team designs and coordinates the systems that connect and secure modern facilities. Services include structured cabling, data centers, audiovisual systems, security and access control, and technology master planning.
By aligning ICT design with architectural and MEP systems from the start, we reduce conflicts, improve accuracy, and give clients greater confidence in delivery. The result is future-ready technology systems that support innovation, safety, and reliable performance with fewer surprises along the way.
Interiors
Interior design at HED brings depth, warmth, and purpose to every space. Our cross-sector team creates environments that not only reflect your aesthetic, but fully express your brand—supporting your mission, elevating daily experience, and adapting with purpose.
Rooted in human-centered thinking, we design for how people move, focus, connect, and recharge. From flexible layouts and multimodal zones to furniture, materiality, and biophilic design, every element is chosen with intention. The result is an interior that expresses your brand, promotes well-being, and invites people to feel at home while performing at their best. Through close collaboration with clients and integrated teams, our designers shape environments that are not only beautiful, but functional, responsive, and distinctly yours.
Lab Planning
Laboratory planning and design at HED integrates safety, flexibility, and performance to support discovery and innovation. With a history of contributing to national standards, we bring expertise in ventilation, cleanrooms, and adaptable casework systems.
By embedding lab design within the integrated team, we address complexity early. This reduces risk, accelerates decisions, and aligns systems with architecture and engineering. Clients gain environments that are safe, efficient, and adaptable to evolving science, delivered with greater predictability and success.
Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture at HED balances ecology, infrastructure, and community to create outdoor environments that are resilient and meaningful. From site planning to green infrastructure and community design, our solutions consider time and change, creating spaces that evolve with use.
By integrating landscape design with architecture and engineering disciplines from day one, we align goals early, avoid rework, and deliver environments that enrich communities with greater predictability and impact.
Mechanical & Plumbing Engineering
Our mechanical and plumbing engineers design HVAC, plumbing, and fire protection systems that optimize comfort, safety, and sustainability. From energy modeling to life-cycle analysis, we create high-performance systems that anticipate future needs.
Because our engineers are integrated from the outset, clients gain better cost forecasting, fewer design conflicts, and more confidence in system performance. The result is buildings that run reliably, efficiently, and sustainably. They’re delivered with greater predictability and less risk.
Structural Engineering
Structural engineering at HED delivers safety, efficiency, and constructability. We provide design for steel, concrete, timber, and masonry structures that align seamlessly with the architecture and overall project goals.
Close collaboration with architects and engineers reduces coordination issues, streamlines decision-making, and improves predictability. Clients gain resilient, efficient structures that support bold ideas while minimizing risk and delivering reliable outcomes.
Workplace Strategy
At HED, workplace strategy bridges business goals with the design of the built environment. Your spaces support how work happens today and anticipate how it will evolve. By engaging stakeholders early and integrating research, analytics, and design, we reduce uncertainty, accelerate adoption, and create workplaces that foster collaboration, culture, and well-being.
Our process integrates space utilization studies, change management, benchmarking, and scenario planning with architectural design. With clear decisions made upfront and fewer surprises along the way, your organization gains spaces that are adaptable, future-ready, and measurably more effective.