Construction Services Department Overview
What are Construction Services? Construction services may feel like a broad term. After all, it doesn’t clarify much, which could lead to some confusion about the unique services we…
Landscape Architecture Department Overview
What is Landscape Architecture? When you ask that question, turn your gaze to open spaces all around you. The High Line, 9/11 Memorial, and Central Park in New York…
Pinnacle Award Winners Q1 2023
The First Pinnacle Award Winners of 2023 Are Here! Here at Summit, we recognize that our firm is made up of many, many moving parts. We have fourteen different service…
The Benefits of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture is in practice all around you, every day. A historical field that has been around for centuries, landscape architecture is responsible for numerous famous locales, such as the…
Landscape Architecture Multi-Project Spotlight
Celebrating World Landscape Architecture Month What is Landscape Architecture? Landscape architecture is an art form that merges the natural environment with the built environment. As we celebrate World Landscape Architecture Month,…
How We Got Here: Jim and Troy’s Story
In previous posts, we have explored both Jim and Troy’s histories in our “How’d I Get Here” series (which can both be found here)—and now, you can read a compilation…
Survey and Geomatics Department Overview
Summit’s history and Surveying as a service go hand in hand—after all, it was the service our firm was founded on. But what do you actually know about surveying and…
How Self-Healing Concrete Works and How It Can Help the Construction Industry
Since I have joined Summit, I have had multiple people interested in the research which I performed as a graduate student/researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This research…
How’d I Get Here?: Troy Dover’s Story
IntroductionAs we continue telling the Summit Story through our ‘How’d I Get Here?’ blog series, we take a dive into the story of Summit’s President, Troy Dover. Once we got…
How’d I Get Here?: Jim Parker’s Story
IntroductionRecently, our marketing team was able to get Summit founder Jim Parker to sit still for a while and give us the full scoop on the history of Summit Design…