Category: Innovation

03/15/2025 | Innovation

A Combined Community Health Clinic with a Rural Jail

As a specialist in jail and detention facility design, BKV Group has developed a fixed price prototype rural jail facility that integrates a sheriff’s office, jail, and healthcare clinic tailored for rural communities.

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07/27/2024 | Innovation

Optimizing Building Design to Produce Efficient and Cost-Effective Results

In high interest rate climate, BKV Group is collaborating with our clients and general contractor partners to advance design standards and project delivery methods to achieve cost savings while improving quality. Our process is centered on predictable and repeatable results.

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02/21/2024 | Innovation

Embracing Flexibility in CTE Classroom Design

For the third time, BKV was involved with the EDSpaces conference with the focus of this year’s classroom concept being “Embracing Flexibility in CTE Classrooms.”

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07/21/2023 | Innovation

Parti-Librari: A Portable Reading Room Concept

Our BKV Group team collaborated on a versatile concept of lightweight components that can be reconfigured to create distinctly unique and inviting installations adaptable to locations within any climate or season.

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01/24/2023 | Innovation

A Classroom For Every Student

As part of the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) who every year sponsors the design of a classroom at the national EdSpaces conference, BKV Interior Designers, Dora Deak and Charlie McIlraith, presented a new educational design concept titled, “A Classroom for Every Student.”

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08/02/2022 | Innovation

BKV Submits to the AIA Flint 2022 Design Competition

In July 2022, the AIA Flint 2022 Design Competition challenged design firms to submit a concept to transform the City of Flint Municipal Center Campus, with BKV developing the site into a vibrant, mixed-use, and walkable community that will spur greater public use and bring further investment to the downtown area.

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06/15/2022 | Innovation

How Community Takes Root: Addressing Equity and Climate Change through Neighborhood Design

BKV is leading the Creativity working group for the emerging Root District — a community based on the foundations of racial justice, economic opportunity, and sustainability, which seeks to educate and inspire the city of Minneapolis and beyond.

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05/26/2022 | Innovation

BKV Group Takes Part in Steel-Timber Hybrid Buildings Conference

BKV architects, Rob Muller and Marvin Moss, represented BKV at the two-day event which brought together over 250 members of the AEC industry to examine case studies on the expanding use of mass timber on projects in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

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