Internship Highlight

By: Jordan Goff, BLA ‘21

This summer I had the opportunity to intern at MGB+A in Salt Lake City. Summer 2020 had a rough start as we all know, which for me meant starting my internship working remotely. It certainly was not what I was expecting, but I was grateful that the firm found ways for me to help, even with the difficult circumstances. After about a month of working remotely, I was able to start working in the office in Downtown Salt Lake.

One of the biggest things I have learned this summer has been about the business/marketing side of our industry. A lot of the tasks I’ve been assigned have been related to marketing to potential clients, which is something we don’t have the chance to put into practice very often in school. In the LAEP studio, projects just kind of show up on your desk, but in the real world you have to go get them! I feel far more familiar now with the RFP/RFQ process, as well as marketing to private clients. I have also become a lot more familiar with the public approval process and how public projects are funded.

I have also had the opportunity to work on a few conceptual level design projects that I’ve really enjoyed, as well as putting together a construction document set for a small aesthetic upgrade project in the Salt Lake area, which will probably be under construction by the time InSites Magazine 2020 is published.

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