Get the latest news from KZF Design, including announcements and press releases. http://www.kzf.com/news/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:00:11 -0400 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:00:02 -0400 KZF Design Inc. tim.sharp@kzf.com (c) 2011 KZF Design Inc. All rights reserved. eric.anderson@kzf.com More trees and streetscape elements, pedestrian-friendly business access and a different look that sets apart downtown along Beechmont Avenue in Anderson Township are a few of the ideas in a concept for a two-block area township officials, citizen committees and consultants are eyeing as they work on an update of the Beechmont Vision Plan. The goal is to make that section of Beechmont Avenue more pedestrian-friendly by connecting sidewalks and encouraging business owners to create plaza-like environments in front of the property, said consultant Tim Sharp with KZF Design. These include reducing the width of travel lanes on Beechmont Avenue from 12 feet to 11 feet; taking the shoulders from 5 feet to 2 feet; connecting sidewalks along this downtown corridor; and adding trees, hedges or other streetscape elements to the area. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/C2/20121008/NEWS05/310080001/Anderson-has-big-plans-Beechmont http://www.kzf.com/news/ Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:53:13 -0400 KZF Design’s Randy Schultz and Jon Bennett were recently recognized for their continued dedication to American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the engineering profession at the annual ASCE-Cincinnati Awards Ceremony held at the University of Cincinnati. Randy Schultz, PE was honored for completion of his first term as President of the ASCE Cincinnati Section. Randy has worked as a Structural Engineer at KZF for more than 7 years and has been a member of ASCE since July of 2005. Jon Bennett, PE, RA was honored with the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. Jon, who is also a Registered Architect, has been practicing as a Civil and Structural Engineer for more than 40 years, demonstrating superior design skills as an engineer as well as the highest qualities of leadership. Jon was President of the Cincinnati Section of the ASCE from 1988–1989. Please join us in congratulating Randy and Jon for their unwavering commitment to the ASCE and to excellence in the engineering profession. http://kzf.com/news/pdf/20120709_ASCE_Awards.pdf http://www.kzf.com/news/ Tue, 09 Jul 2012 9:06:00 -0400 KZF Design is pleased to announce the 711th Human Systems Wing Complex at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH has been awarded a 2012 PCI Design Award in the Military Structures category by the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI). A panel of highly-qualified, impartial jurors from the fields of architecture and engineering consider creativity and ingenuity in the use of precast in selecting projects for award. The purpose is to recognize design excellence and construction quality using precast concrete. http://kzf.com/news/pdf/20120706_HPWAward.pdf http://www.kzf.com/news/ Tue, 09 Jul 2012 8:56:00 -0400 http://www.kzf.com//news/pdf/20120608_BusCour_BOL2013A-E.pdf http://www.kzf.com/news/ Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:33:42 -0400 The KZF/LJB JV, a joint venture between KZF Design and LJB Inc., was recently awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) task order contract at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The ID/IQ focuses on civil and structural engineering services. We are honored to continue serving Wright-Patterson AFB and to help them fulfill their mission. http://thespot.ljbinc.com/2012/06/18/kzfljb-joint-venture-secures-idiq-contract-at-wright-patterson-afb/ http://www.kzf.com/news/ Tue, 19 Jun 2012 9:31:11 -0400 KZF Design is pleased to announce Scott Csendes, AIA has joined the firm as a Senior Project Manager in our Commercial and Industrial Group. Scott has more than 20 years of experience delivering professional design services in the commercial development community and is known for his understanding of the industry from real estate to design through construction. Scott has managed over $1B in commercial projects throughout his career, including retail, office, manufacturing and industrial uses throughout the country with a focus on producing high quality designs while managing schedule and budget constraints regularly faced by the industry. His solid relationships with retailers, developers and contractors make him uniquely qualified to strengthen KZF's collaborative approach to solving contemporary challenges and delivering outstanding results. To hear more about KZF Design and the Commercial and Industrial Group, contact Scott Csendes at 513.621.6211 or email scott.csendes@kzf.com. http://www.kzf.com/campaign/2012scottannounce/ http://www.kzf.com/news/ Tue, 22 May 2012 12:32:16 -0400 KZF Design's Workplace Design Studio integrates architecture, interior design and marketing principles to express and reinforce your brand experience throughout your workplace. Your employees, customers, partners and other visitors will connect on an emotional level with the values and character that set your brand apart. KZF's pre-design services explore ways to incorporate your brand early in the creative process. Our design professionals know effective branding cannot be reduced to the application of graphic elements alone. Living the brand means integrating everything that communicates your vision. Let KZF help you transform your workplace into a productive environment that fully personifies your brand identity. http://www.kzf.com/campaign/2011predesign/ http://www.kzf.com/news/ Tue, 22 May 2012 11:51:41 -0400 KZF Design is pleased to announce Pamela Loeffelman, FAIA, LEED AP has joined the firm as the Director of our Education Studio. Pam has been devoted to work in the education and cultural markets throughout her 35-year career and is known for her ability to leverage architectural policy and planning to shape outcomes. Pam strives to provide a tangible return on investment through appropriately articulated design directions. Pam's 50 plus educational/civic projects have utilized strategies in adaptive reuse, e-learning and “maximizing the gross” to articulate guidelines that shaped and stimulated innovative, measurable results. Her addition to the team strengthens KZF's long history of creating spaces that inspire and engage students and faculty alike. For more information contact Pam Loeffelman at 513.621.6211 or email pam.loeffelman@kzf.com http://www.kzf.com/campaign/2012pamannounce/ http://www.kzf.com/news/ Wed, 09 May 2012 1:42:27 -0400 The prestigious Interior Design Magazine has listed KZF as one of the nation's "Interior Design Giants" for the 27th consecutive year, ranked #82 among the nation's top 100 Interior Design firms in the January 2012 issue. KZF Design owes this honor to our clients, who have helped make us an Interior Design Giant every year for the past 27 years. We congratulate our design professionals and staff for their unwavering dedication to delivering inspired design solutions that consistently exceed expectations. Visit KZF.COM/interiors for more information. For more information about KZF Design, contact Tim Sharp, Vice President at 513.621.6211 or email tim.sharp@kzf.com http://www.kzf.com/campaign/2012idgiant/ http://www.kzf.com/news/ Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:34:46 -0400 KZF Design is pleased to announce the hiring of Molly Brunner as Project Designer. Molly Brunner is a Project Designer at KZF Design with 6 years of experience specializing in healthcare facility design. Molly is passionate about healthcare design, having worked on more than 400,000 SF of healthcare projects, including a $100M expansion at Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth, OH. Molly joins the Healthcare Studio at KZF, a team of dedicated healthcare experts focusing on the planning and design of hospitals, wellness centers, imaging centers, physicians' offices, medical office buildings and facilities for patient care from pediatric to geriatric. Her current KZF projects include designs for Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in Iowa City, IA and Wilmington, DE, as well as upcoming US Air Force Medical IDIQ task orders. KZF welcomes Molly to our staff of more than 65 design professionals based at our LEED Gold certified offices and studios in downtown Cincinnati. http://kzf.com/news/pdf/20120126%20Press%20Release%20Brunner.pdf http://www.kzf.com/news/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:29:36 -0400 East Bliss will get three swimming pools in a new indoor aquatic center that's designed to help meet the needs of the growing post. The new aquatic center will include an Olympic-size pool, a deep-water diving pool and a multipurpose pool. Ground was broken for the new aquatic center Nov. 29, and construction should begin in January, he said. The main purpose is to provide training for soldiers, but the center will also be used for recreation for soldiers, their families, military retirees and civilian employees at the post. It will cost about $15.5M to build and could be finished by February or March 2013, Hildreth said. Money for the center was allocated last year, he added. The 50,000-square-foot aquatic center will be built next to the Sgt. Joshua W. Soto Physical Fitness Center and will be the final piece of the main part of the East Bliss Town Center. Besides the gym, the town center contains a mini-mall that's been open for several months and a community activity center that's being built and should be open by the spring of 2012. The new center will have a 50-meter Olympic pool, which will have a moveable bulkhead to allow for multiple activities. If the bulkhead is placed in the middle, it will create 16 lanes of 25 meters each. The pool will also be used for competitive swimming, intramural inner-tube water polo, water volleyball, water aerobics, kayaking and other activities. A deep-water diving tank will have a 3-meter platform and two 1-meter diving boards. It will be used for anti-drowning troop training, but it can also be used for scuba classes and recreational diving. The third pool will also have multiple uses. It will have a "zero-depth" sloped entry. It will range from 4 feet to 8 feet deep. Its core mission is to support what's called Shallow Water Egress Training, in which soldiers learn what to do if their Humvee or other military vehicle ends up in the water. It can also quickly heat up to 92 degrees and be used for therapy for wounded soldiers. It will have a basketball shooting area, a 12-foot climbing wall and the capability for water volleyball. The aquatic center is being designed to be flexible and support as many different programs as possible, Hildreth said. As new training and fitness trends develop, the pools can be adapted to meet them, he said. Megen Construction of Cincinnati is the prime contractor. KZF Design, also of Cincinnati, is doing the design work. Source: El Paso Times, Posted: 12/16/2011 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.elpasotimes.com/communities/ci_19556617 http://www.kzf.com/news/ Wed, 20 Dec 2011 08:12:00 -0400 KZF Design is pleased to announce that the Toho Water Authority Headquarters has achieved LEED Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council. As the first LEED certified project in the City of Kissimmee, this award-winning 54,000 SF facility demonstrates the Authority's commitment to conserving water and energy for Osceola County's future. This recognition adds to KZF's list of more than 30 sustainable buildings designed over the past five years. We salute our client, the Toho Water Authority, the contractor, Balfour Beatty and the design team of TLC Engineering for Architecture, Franklin Hart and Reid Civil Engineers and Surveyors and Bellomo-Herbert Landscape Architecture for their dedication to designing and implementing innovative design solutions. For more information about the Toho project, please visit KZF.COM/florida. To hear more about the Florida Studio at KZF Design, contact Joe Morgan at 407.298.1988 or by email at joe.morgan@kzf.com http://www.kzf.com/campaign/2011toholeed/ http://www.kzf.com/news/ Tues, 14 June 2011 08:15:00 -0400 Steve Sendlebeck, AIA, LEED AP, Director of the Workplace Design Studio at KZF Design, presents Disruption vs. Distraction: Getting Work Done in the Workplace at the 2011 CoreNet Global Ohio/Kentucky Chapter Conference, June 9, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, OH. Tapping into his background in creating workplace solutions for such Fortune 1000 companies as Great American Insurance, Citi and Scripps Networks, Steve explores contemporary workplace design issues and ways to improve productivity through better understanding of occupant needs. To learn about the event and to register visit http://ohiokentucky.corenetglobal.org. http://www.kzf.com/campaign/2011corenet/ http://www.kzf.com/news/ Thurs, 2 June 2011 08:30:01 -0400 Alan Sullivan, AIA, ACHA, Director of the Healthcare Studio at KZF Design, will be a panelist on the upcoming Kentucky Society of Healthcare Engineers-AIA Kentucky Managing Hospital Construction Seminar on Friday, June 3rd in Louisville, KY. The seminar will be held at the University of Louisville Founders Union Hall at the Shelbyville Road campus. Alan will share his expertise, gained from more than 30 years in healthcare facility design and offer real-world insight on how the various components of hospital design and construction can come together to achieve positive results. Visit www.kshe.org for more information. http://www.kzf.com/campaign/2011kshe/ http://www.kzf.com/news/ Fri, 27 May 2011 08:33:42 -0400 The new $120M Cincinnati Riverfront Park has seen significant progress made on its first phase of work. Project manager Dave Prather gives another visual tour of the construction progress at the CRP, and specifically highlights the rise of the Moerlein Lager House, demolition of the old Mehring Way, as well as updates the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Stage & Event Lawn, Women's Committee Garden and the Walnut Street Fountain & Steps. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/blog/2011/05/first-phase-of-cincinnati-riverfront.html#ixzz1LyNAyqTj http://www.kzf.com/news/ Wed, 10 May 2011 13:27:19 -0400 Cincinnati has a well-established design district. Major design and branding firms such as KZF Design sport stylish offices along 8th Street northwest of downtown in the 8th Street Design District. But a few minutes' walk north of this district lies another stretch that appears to be on its way to becoming a design district of a different type. The storefronts along Main Street in Over-the-Rhine are rapidly filling up with ventures spearheaded by young design professionals, and the neighborhood appears to be welcoming them with open arms. http://www.soapboxmedia.com/devnews/0510mainstreetdesigndistrict.aspx http://www.kzf.com/news/ Wed, 10 May 2011 9:52:28 -0400 Cincinnati Leadership Class honors professionals who have made an outstanding contribution to the business, civic and cultural betterment of our community. Candidates are identified and nominated by an Advisory Council, or candidates may nominate themselves for consideration. Honorary Chairs, John F. Cassidy, President & CEO of Cincinnati Bell, Inc. and Sheree Paolello, News Anchor, WLWT News 5 Cincinnati will present our honorees with their awards at a reception on July 14, 2011 at the University Club. http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/ohg/cincinnati-leadership-class/index.aspx http://www.kzf.com/news/ Wed, 04 May 2011 13:27:53 -0400 In celebration of Earth Day, the Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance presents EcoSculpt, a three-week installation of original sculptures made of recycled and/or recyclable materials. Selected artists are now working on their sculptures and will install them on Fountain Square on April 8. See exhibits by KZF Design, the Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance, Recyclebank, People Working Cooperatively and many more. Artists' creations will add life and color to Fountain Square this spring and bring attention to how we use (and maybe re-use) resources. If you haven’t made it down to the Square, check out the sculptures at and vote now! http://myfountainsquare.wordpress.com/events/ecosculpt/ http://www.kzf.com/news/ Thurs, 14 Apr 2011 11:24:32 -0400 Lt. Governor Becky Skillman announced today the Greencastle and North Vernon will be the pilot communities for the new multi-year, multi-million-dollar Stellar Communities program. Forty-two communities submitted proposals to become a pilot community. After scoring the plans, the top twelve communities were asked to submit more details, and site visits were conducted by staff from each agency. Lt. Governor Skillman intends to continue Stellar Communities next year, and cities that did not win this year may re-apply for future rounds. North Vernon, the only city between Muscatatuck Urban Training Center and Interstate 65, will use their funds to become an economic hub for the defense industry. Planned improvements include a new event center, a pedestrian plaza, improvements to the Irish Hill neighborhood, and creating more commercial opportunities on Main Street. Lt. Governor Skillman will hold a celebration in North Vernon on Friday. Our region is not able to take full advantage of Muscatatuck without a vibrant North Vernon," Mayor Harold "Soup" Campbell said. "Without Stellar Communities, we would certainly lose out on millions of dollars of economic activity." Funding for the initiatives comes from multiple existing federal funds. State agencies will continue to offer grant programs to local units of government not participating in Stellar Communities. Details on the community celebrations will be announced later this week. http://www.kzf.com/news/pdf/20110307_StellarGrant_Release.pdf http://www.kzf.com/news/ Mon, 7 Mar 2011 8:08:02 -0400 Construction of Phase I of 45-acre Cincinnati Riverfront Park remains on schedule, according to a new video featuring Project Manager Dave Prather. The spring 2011 edition of the "hard hat tour" features greater detail on construction of the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Stage and Event Lawn, scheduled for completion in May, and the Walnut Street Fountain and Steps and the Bike, Mobility and Visitors Center, which will open late this summer. Other Phase I features open this fall. http://www.mycincinnatiriverfrontpark.com/construction.htm http://www.kzf.com/news/ Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:26:47 -0400 The Bearcat Battalion, the University of Cincinnati's ROTC program, sent its troops through the muddy hills of Mt. Airy Forest Saturday afternoon for a test on their land navigation skills. Student-cadets trudged through the woodlands to hone their knowledge of land navigation, a military discipline consisting of navigation through the use of maps, compasses and terrain recognition. The student-cadets traversed most of the park as they worked through both day and night navigation courses seeking alphanumeric wooden signs, denoting their success in training. "We do [navigation training] five times total for the year," said Lt. Col. Randy Judd, leader of the Bearcat Battalion and military science professor at UC. "It helps the cadets practice their leadership. It's a confidence-building exercise." Cadets were joined by members of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) and the American Veterans (AMVETS) for the day as well. "Any opportunity to get out and work with the cadets is a great thing," said Meg Mueller of KZF Design, head of the SAME Cincinnati chapter. http://www.newsrecord.org/news/news/honing-their-skills-1.2485140 http://www.kzf.com/news/ Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:00:21 -0400