THE URBAN COLLABORATIVE, LLC is an interdisciplinary design firm that focuses on helping their clients achieve their sustainability goals through engaging, educational, and efficient participatory processes tailored to each project’s scale, context, and culture. Their award-winning work addresses environmental, fiscal, and social sustainability in ways that support and enhance their clients’ missions.

While they complete private sector work for clients committed to advancing sustainability, most of their work is for U.S. federal agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Defense. To do this, they have helped craft national policies, they teach from those policies, and they prepare plans aligned with those policies.

PHILOSOPHY

Collaboration. The Urban Collaborative prioritizes working with their clients and stakeholders in all aspects of design and planning. They have pioneered a process that integrates the goals and needs of all involved in an engaging, efficient, and effective manner.

Sustainability. Their goal is to create places that support and sustain an area’s or an installation’s diverse missions and that are environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable.

Responsiveness. They pride theirselves on being responsive to client needs for large and small sites worldwide. With offices in Eugene, Oregon, Honolulu, Hawaii, San Antonio, Texas, Dayton, Ohio, San Francisco, California, and Washington, DC, as well as staff in Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin and Houston, Texas, they have a wide reach. They can adjust to changing requirements and pressing deadlines.