Overview

Our team strives to consistently accomplish the following principles in realizing our firm's Purpose, Mission and Vision through design:

Respect for Context: A major criterion upon which we measure design quality is how well a facility design respects and enriches its contexts (Regional, Community, Neighborhood, and Site), reflects its place in time and elevates the human experience of its setting.

Value-for-the-Dollar Driven Design: We believe that four major constituencies define Design Value - our Client, the facility's direct and indirect Users, the facility's Operators/Managers, and ultimately Society. Our design goal is to optimize, for each of these beneficiary groups, confirmable value within an established budget.

Future-Proofed Design: A key criterion of design quality is how efficiently and effectively a facility can accommodate desired user change throughout its life cycle. It also includes an aesthetic that does not diminish with time.

Socially Responsible Design: Quality design minimizes its impact on earth's ecosystems and natural resources, is universally accessible and enables positive human interaction.

Master Planning / Architecture

Future competitive advantages and continued success depend on how well capital investments achieve their intended objectives. We deliver innovative and cost-effective design solutions that maximize capital investments through increased productivity, greater energy efficiency, and lower life cycle costs. A representative listing of services is as follows:

Interior Design

BTA has always embraced an intelligent and creative services integration philosophy, including high-quality interior design, for all projects. Using this approach, a cohesive unification of exterior and interior architectural elements is achieved and final design solutions are greatly enhanced.

We offer clients comprehensive interior design services; whether it be the selection and specification of interior building finish systems or the complex design of hundreds of workstations. A representative listing of services is as follows:

Sustainable Design

Bullock Tice Associates is fully committed to delivering innovative sustainable design solutions to our clients. To fulfill our commitment, BTA’s Design Team seeks to develop and maintain a high level of technical competence and proficiency in understanding the latest green building concepts, trends, materials, and technologies. These skills and expertise are key elements in the firm’s sustainable design process.

BTA’s commitment to incorporating sustainable methodologies on our projects utilizes an integrated design approach and focuses on the following major elements for design and implementation:

At BTA, we understand that it is our professional responsibility to achieve a balance between the natural and built environments while also developing business-sense-driven design solutions for our clients. Environmental stewardship is at the core of every BTA design project; delivering feasible sustainable solutions that positively influence client comfort, safety and profitability remains a principal obligation and goal for our practice.

Our team has demonstrated experience and competency in using LEED-evaluation and certification methods; utilizing LEED rating tools; and in designing sustainable facilities to address LEED criteria. BTA has experience in the use and application of LEED versions 2.0, 2.2 and 2009 and currently has 18 LEED Accredited Professionals on staff. BTA’s current portfolio includes five LEED “Silver” Certified projects, one LEED "Gold" Certified project as well as 12 projects currently registered with GBCI and on track for LEED Certification.

Certified projects include:

• - NASA Shared Services Center / Stennis Space Center, MS
• - U.S. EPA Research Support Center / Gulf Breeze, FL
• - Fire Station/Air Operations Center / NAS Meridian, MS
• - F-35 Student Dormitory / Eglin AFB, FL
• - Eglin Field House / Eglin AFB, FL
• - Child Development Center / Columbus AFB, MS

Building Information Modeling

BTA is your source for information and leadership in Building Information Modeling (BIM). Over the past six years, BTA has incorporated and implemented BIM capabilities into our project development and design methodology. All of BTA’s new projects are created with BIM-enabled software and take advantage of advanced BIM features whenever applicable.

BTA has two Autodesk-Certified Professionals in Revit Architecture 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 (one of the leading BIM software platforms). They are part of a select group nationally, and the only two professionals within a 300-hundred mile radius of Pensacola, Florida to achieve this highest level of certification through direct testing and observation by Autodesk Inc. These individuals reinforce and support our commitment to implementing BIM into our practice by continuously updating our comprehensive staff training curriculum, and by formally improving BIM comprehension and capabilities within the firm’s technical staff. Mandatory weekly training sessions, geared to all staff levels including project managers, are held to assure that Building Information Modeling capabilities are maintained and further integrated into the firm’s daily production capabilities and those of our consultants. Our team also collaborates with contractors in their use of BIM during construction.

BTA has also invested in professional training for Bentley Architecture (another leading BIM software platform), Navisworks (overall project coordination), and Ecotect (analysis software for energy and performance studies).

BTA is not a proponent of “BIM Washing,” (i.e. representing BIM capabilities without having made a dedicated and concerted effort to develop this expertise, or using outdated technology and/or methodology to achieve a “semi-bim” solution). BTA’s credentials are comprehensive proof that our team is trained in the latest BIM technology, and that our team has developed best practices to anticipate our clients’ changing needs. BTA is well-positioned to take advantage of this technology as it continues to rapidly evolve. For our clients, this means that “we are not learning BIM on their project.”

"Total Solutions" Service Delivery

More and more of our clients desire the convenience and accountability of single-source service delivery (beyond traditional facility design) in meeting their business or organizational needs. We are always looking for strategic alliance partners who enjoy collaboration in meeting the needs of our clients in a comprehensive manner. From these alliance partnerships we provide our clients with custom-tailored, integrated “Total Solutions.”

Examples of expanded services we provide through these relationships include: