McMENAMIN DESIGN ASSOCIATES, LLC (McDA), LOUISVILLE, COLORADO, established in 1996, is an architectural, planning and interior design firm dedicated foremost to the principle of thoughtful, imaginative and quality design that is highly responsive to user needs and environmental context. We are capable of providing planning, architectural and engineering services encompassing programming, schematic design, design development, construction documentation, bidding phase management, and construction administration for projects involving new construction, additions, remodels, and tenant finish work in the private community as well as the municipal, state and federal governmental sectors. Specifically our project experience includes the following building types:

Commercial Office and Retail
Restaurant
Collegiate
Secondary and Elementary Education
Convention Hotel
Religious
Financial
Single- and Multi-Family Residential

Our Operating Philosophy. Each project is delivered via a proven project team whose principal in charge has a high degree of project decision-making authority and participation. Strong technically oriented people assist in producing the work and providing quality control input, but the project success relies on the authority, involvement and review of the practicing principal. Involving the client in the very beginning to generate a complete and accurate scope of work and project program is also essential to achieving a successful outcome. Constant contact with the client is maintained to ensure compliance with the established program, schedule and budget.

GREGORY H. McMENAMIN, AIA, PRESIDENT, has over thirty-one years of experience in the architecture and planning profession, and embraces the philosophy of a practice-centered approach to performing all functions of the firm. That is, he not only manages the business, but also maintains an active, hands-on involvement in all design and production aspects of the practice.

Greg has a strong background in the design and project management of a variety of building types including commercial office and retail buildings, fire stations, aviation projects, collegiate, secondary and elementary educational projects, convention hotel and visitor accommodation facilities, single and multi-family residential, communications, banking, religious, restaurant, and governmental projects. These have involved new construction, additions, remodels, and adaptive reuse projects.

Greg's planning experience encompasses work on city parks, educational campuses, planned unit developments, subdivisions, and general site utilization studies. He has experience in working with individual clients, committees, and facility managers defining project specific programs including schedule and budget criteria. He has successfully dealt with regulatory agencies in gaining all necessary design and building permit approvals with the primary goal of achieving a finished project that is highly responsive to the client's needs.

Greg received his Bachelor of Environmental Design (B.Envd.) from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1975. He is a Registered Architect in Colorado and California, and a member of the American Institute of Architects in which he currently serves as the President of the AIA Colorado North chapter board of directors. He is also a member of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), and the City of Louisville's Historic Preservation Commission.