As our team begins the transition back to the office, we will continue to employ the various tools and adaptability we’ve developed during our work from home phase to evolve our “new normal”.  So far, we’ve been able to implement several new platforms to engage and communicate with clients and partners scattered across the country.  As we continue strict social distancing, technology has also facilitated job site monitoring and communication, by allowing us to virtually share the site visits we conduct with the full design team.  By incorporating Momento360 technology into our construction administration process, we’ve been able to collaborate on a complete review of progress for several projects, including the highly anticipated .

MHM is honored to be working with on several affordable housing renovation projects across the state of Tennessee. Two of those projects are Evergreen Villa’s located in Powel TN, and Kingsport West located in Kingsport TN.  

Evergreen Villas was built in 1981 and is a single-story apartment complex for the elderly composed of 6 individual buildings containing 51 one-bedroom living units and a common community building for residents. The renovation consists of all new interior and exterior finishes along with mechanical and electrical upgrades. The new color scheme is intended to give the project a fresh, modern, look but is also an economical way to help wayfinding for the residents by making each unit more individual. The Construction Manager is

 Kingsport West was built in 1979 and is a multi-family apartment complex composed of 10 individual buildings containing 20 one-bedroom, 60 two-bedroom, and 24 three-bedroom townhouse living units and a common community building for residents. The renovation consists of all new interior and exterior finishes along with mechanical and electrical upgrades. Several units are receiving ADA/UFAS upgrades to meet the needs of residents with mobility, sight, and hearing issues, and a new ADA compliant playground is being added for use by the children of the residents. The CM on the project is

We’re excited to see continued progress on several of our projects, including The Research Operations Support Center (ROSC). The ROSC building is a design-build project on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) campus, with as the contractor. The one-story building is designed to house the protective forces and fire department for the ORNL campus.

The building is designed to house all necessary response features for both the protective forces and fire department, including: locker rooms, fitness room, showers, open office areas, kitchen with dining and lounge, and apparatus bay for emergency response vehicles with small maintenance area. The entry to the building also has display areas for small artifacts. The building façade is handsomely designed with brick, large windows allowing natural light, and two colors of fiber cement panels corresponding to the interior program. Construction is expected to be complete in August of this year.

MHM is excited to announce the first UTK College of Architecture & Design MHM Endowed Professor, Maged Guerguis. Established to promote design excellence through teaching by an internationally or nationally recognized practicing architect, the MHM Professorship is the result of a gift from MHM.  This endowment will give students the opportunity to explore design through the lenses of Maged’s expertise and experience as teacher. 

“Maged Guerguis is an Assistant Professor of Design and Structural Technology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), College of Architecture and Design. Maged is a designer, researcher, and educator who has received recognition with awards such as the SOM Foundation Research Fellowship and Travel Award, AIA Chicago Divine Detail Award, United States Green Building Council Emerald Award, Architizer A+ Awards, and Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award.”

In addition to his work for The College of Architecture, Maged is the director of , a multidisciplinary design firm, and research laboratory investigating areas where design concepts overlap with sciences such as Biology, Biochemistry, Robotics, and Differential Geometry.  We are especially inspired by Maged’s recent COVID-19 response.  Through his research for UTK, Maged & his team have designed a new PPE designed for healthcare workers weighing only two ounces.  Designed with 3D printing technology, it can be assembled in 5 seconds and provides improved comfort and maximum protection for medical professionals.

Image Credits: (Top) © 2020 University of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design, (Bottom) © 2020 University of Tennessee Research Foundation

We are pleased to announce that MHM’s Emerging Professionals were recognized at the recent Design Gala held by AIA East Tennessee. The Living Lattice project took home the Citation Award in the Emerging Professionals category.

The project was a design/build/engage/grow initiative for Park(ing) Day Knox displayed temporarily on Gay St. in downtown Knoxville, and later permanently installed at Beardsley Community Farm in North Knoxville. The project team collaborated with Blaine Construction and two local nonprofit organizations, Keep Knoxville Beautiful (KKB) and Beardsley Community Farm. Based on our partners’ visions, goals were established to create a sustainable, reusable, and educational structure that would support the Beardsley Farm mission when relocated to its final home.