What We Do
It is the grand opening of your new facility. As excited crowds explore it for the first time, you bask in the knowledge that, in every way, the place functions and feels exactly the way it should. Your satisfaction is all the more complete because you remember every turn in the long and winding road that led you to this destination, along with all the pitfalls that you avoided. Your success stands as a monument to proper planning and flawless execution.
At the outset of any building project, everyone hopes to arrive at that same destination. Whether you are the president of a university that needs modernized student housing to compete with your university peers, a mayor or sports franchise owner fighting for a new stadium to keep the home team in town, a recreation director who needs a center suitable for your programs, or an architect designing a college union in the face of changing trends, you know that your project is complex. You know that before the first plans are drawn, before the first bond is sold, before the first shovel of earth is turned, hard questions must be answered to ensure that the building succeeds when it is open and operating. You must determine the precise combination of elements that will make your building special--a place that builds community. Then, once your vision is crystallized, you must ensure that it is realized despite the complexities and urgencies that overtake the design and construction process.
B&D served as program managers and represented the Baltimore Ravens' interests throughout the design and construction of its NFL stadium.
Brailsford & Dunlavey has earned a national reputation for being uniquely equipped to meet these challenges. We offer unsurpassed experience with "quality of life" building types, the diversity of skills and experience necessary to execute all phases of facility development, and the analytical tools necessary to render complex decision-making simple for you.
Above all, we bring to each of our projects a devotion to our client's objectives that helps us internalize your interests as our own. It is this devotion, coupled with our expertise and skills, that enable us to serve as more than facility planners and program managers, but as "catalysts for building community."
B&D provided planning and programming services for the construction of a new 165,000 square foot student union for the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
The Millennium Student Center opened in the fall of 2000.
