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HDR Architect
Address: 150 Mathilda Pl # 300, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Phone:(408) 328-5800

Type – Private Employee Owned Corporation
Industry – Architecture, Engineering, Consulting
Founded – Omaha, Nebraska USA (1917)
Headquarters – Omaha, Nebraska USA
Key people – George A. Little, Chairman and CEO
Number of employees – 8,500
Website http://www.hdrinc.com/

HDR, Inc. is an architectural, engineering, and consulting firm based in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. HDR has worked on projects in all 50 U.S. states and in 60 countries, including notable projects such as the Hoover Dam Bypass, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, and The Roslin Institute building. The firm employs nearly 10,000 professionals representing hundreds of disciplines in the architecture, energy, federal, water resources, environmental, mining, private land development, resource management, transportation, and water markets.

History

Founded in 1917 by Henning Henry (H.H.) Henningson, the Henningson Engineering Company got its start as a civil engineering firm in Omaha, where HDR’s headquarters remain today. Willard Richardson and Charles W. “Chuck” Durham joined the firm in 1939 as interns. By the 1950s, Richardson and Durham had purchased shares in the firm, and it became known as Henningson, Durham and Richardson, Inc.

The company’s first project was designing a power station for the city of Ogallala, Nebraska. Similar projects followed as the firm helped cities and towns throughout the Midwestern United States create the water, sewer, electric, and road systems that would help them emerge from frontier status. The company built a reputation for quality and integrity, operating under the philosophy “Work Well Done.”

Engineering services

Services provided by the engineering operating company are consistently ranked in the top of the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms rankings. HDR was ranked No. 9 overall in 2015. Key projects include serving as lead designer to Tappan Zee Constructors on the New NY Bridge (the Tappan Zee replacement bridge) and incorporating stormwater into an urban park at the Fourth Ward Park in Atlanta.

Architecture services

HDR’s architecture group is known for its award-winning designs of a full range of urban environments, campuses, and buildings for clients in the healthcare,civic, justice, science + technology, higher education, and corporate and commercial fields.

The group’s role in large, high-profile projects has earned it the No. 5 ranking in the United States, according to Architectural Record’s 2012 “Top 250 Design Firms” ranking. Other industry rankings:

• Modern Healthcare magazine has ranked HDR the No. 1 healthcare design firm in its annual Construction & Design Survey for ten consecutive years.
• Building Design magazine named HDR the 12th largest architecture firm in the world, the second largest North American design firm, and the world’s No. 1 healthcare and science facility design firm in its 2013 “World Architecture 100” ranking
• Building Design + Construction magazine ranked HDR No. 2 in its “Giants 300” ranking of architecture/engineering firms. The magazine also ranked HDR the No. 1 healthcare, science + technology, and military facility design firm
• Healthcare Design magazine ranked HDR No. 1 for healthcare billings and healthcare contracts signed in its 2012 Corporate Rankings.

Awards

HDR won back to back Grand Conceptor Awards, the highest honor bestowed by the American Council of Engineering Companies, in 2010 and 2011. The 2011 award winner was the Hoover Dam Bypass. HDR was the project manager for this project. The Hoover Dam Bypass won several other industry awards. The 2010 winner was the Gills Onions Advanced Energy Recovery System in Oxnard, California, which uses onion waste to produce renewable energy.