CROFT believes every great design is built on a trusting relationship between architect and client. Our team’s open, collaborative process allows us to learn how to best serve you with the highest quality, custom solutions – no matter the industry.
CROFT & Associates (CROFT), founded in 2004, is a fullservice architecture, interiors, MEP and civil engineering firm, committed to delivering excellent design solutions for our clients. The team at CROFT strives wholeheartedly in serving beyond design. This attitude is at the core of our culture with service to our clients, service to our people and service in our community. Our history of providing serving our clients with excellence sets us apart in our industry. We are a solutions provider – design solutions that provide the best value to fit our client’s needs, expectations and goals.
Licensed in 42 states, CROFT’s professional staff designs and manages more than $225 million in construction of new and renovated facilities each year. The staff of over 75 professionals is comprised of registered architects, professional engineers and designers who enthusiastically embrace their purpose to be our clients’ trusted advisor and relentless advocate.
Quality work starts with quality people. Every member of CROFT is committed to providing the highest level of professional service – fostering a joyful culture of honesty, generosity and integrity both inside and outside the workplace.
At CROFT we hold ourselves accountable for technical coordination and construction reviews. This discipline ensures quality design for our clients and results in lower change orders to our projects.
CROFT performs architecture, interior design, MEP and civil engineering “under one roof.” Our experienced, cross-departmental team produces excellence through our streamlined, collaborative process, coordinating design details face-to-face from a full range of civil, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire Protection engineering services.
As we collaborate with our clients throughout the course of a project, CROFT understands that each client brings a unique culture, community, and project type to the design process. CROFT brings to each client informed problem solving with creative solutions, appropriate to the specific client needs and budget.
Master planning is essential to the success of partnering with our clients. Key items in master planning include assessment of the present land use relative to the best possible use, the desire to explore the best plan for the site, siting new buildings and expansion of others, consideration of the potential acquisition of additional property, infrastructure, and the potential impact of adjacent property.
At CROFT, our interior designers collaborate with our clients, creating experiential spaces where aesthetics meets function. We design beyond paint and furnishings, creating inspirational spaces that will align with your mission and create a sense of place in which to live, work and play.
CROFT believes school planning should be informed by the pedagogical teaching models unique to each school. That requires early involvement of curriculum directors as well as focus groups of teachers within each unique subject matter area. It requires listening and observing how teachers work together to use their classrooms and teach.
This new ground-up 107,000 SF school is a state-ofthe-art, 21st-century replacement for the existing 1950’s era Free Home Elementary school. The new school is located on a nearby property that will serve as the gateway to a new 100-acre county park. The new school will feature expanded corridor learning communities, a multipurpose technology space with 3d printers, and extra wide exterior breezeways that double as outdoor classrooms. Classroom solar orientation was planned with building overhangs and sunshades used to shape quality daylighting and avoid glare. The program includes a security vestibule, a full-service kitchen, cafeteria, gym, media center, art and music classrooms, basketball courts, and multiple playgrounds by age group. The project scope also includes new access roads, a septic system, and an additional overnight bus parking lot.
CROFT provided complete architectural and engineering design services for the building expansion and renovation of this existing facility. This 42-classroom complex interior renovation and building expansion are redeveloping a tightly planned, nine-acre site. This project included the partial renovation of an existing facility of approximately 30,000 SF and the construction of a new 45,000 SF building connected with a breezeway.
Evans, GA
CROFT provided master planning and full architectural and engineering design for this 38,205 SF facility inspired architecturally by the northern California art colony movement of the mid-20th Century. The school is part of a 55-acre multi-phased, master-planned development that will connect to a 20-mile greenway trail, local neighborhoods, passive amenities, and an adjacent sports park. The School for Art Infused Learning (SAIL) is a public charter elementary and middle school led by an experienced non-profit board of educational, performing arts, and community leaders. Committed to providing an innovative, rigorous education that blends academic challenge with worldclass instruction in the arts. CROFT’s design was focused on supporting SAIL’s mission of fostering creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, communications, community, and excellence in the fine arts.
The ability to collaborate and communicate are essential skills that continue to separate emerging leaders and drive their success in the global workplace. CROFT designs learning environments that reinforce collaboration by creating opportunities for students, teachers, and the community to work together in a thoughtful architecture.
This project consists of the design and construction of a ground-up education building dedicated to the school’s high school students. The total facility is a 65,000 SF, two-story building including a student center, cafeteria and support areas, lounge areas, clinic, multi-purpose rooms, classrooms, lab rooms and office spaces. A separate one story “STEM” building includes the Maker Space, Robotics Lab and Physics classroom. CROFT assisted the school to develop the project program and goals, to prioritize the needs of the school and to design a facility that meets the school’s budget while planning for growth and future trends in teaching and learning.
Springs, GA
This 6,000 SF interior build-out of an existing facility that had remained unfinished for a number of years, was reimagined to serve as an event center for alumni, students, and staff to gather. Services provided by CROFT included architectural, structural, MEP engineering, and interior design. The large gathering space was served by an entry lobby, restrooms, a warming kitchen for catered meals, and large storage area for table and chairs.
Today’s fitness environments look past the idea of the gym, and more at holistic wellness as a model for what a fitness environment should be: open, accessible and offering options to support a diverse range of fitness needs to fit the individual.
CROFT provided full architectural and engineering design for the addition of two new facilities at the densely developed Wheeler High School campus. The 35,000 SF west addition sited carefully to the rear of campus consists of a 750-seat performing arts center, pre-function space, and new classroom facilities. The 65,000 SF south addition includes a new 3,000-seat sports arena, classrooms, locker rooms, indoor running track, staff offices, viewing platforms, and a pre-function area tied into existing core areas and staff parking area. The final portion included a new fieldhouse, stadium seating, outdoor lighting, concession stand, and track and tennis court resurfacing.
CROFT carefully developed a site master plan, architectural and engineering design, and multi-step construction phasing and laydown plan that allowed the integration of these two new facilities into an existing 2,300-student campus without disruption of classes or extracurricular functions. The new stateof-the-art venues integrate seamlessly into preestablished building elements and adjacencies on campus and are the new prototype for high school performing arts and athletic facilities throughout Cobb County.
CROFT provided master planning and full architectural and engineering design for the addition of two new facilities at North Cobb High School. The expansion included a new 3,000-seat sports arena at the north of campus, a classroom section, and a new 750-seat performing arts center on the south of campus. CROFT developed a multi-step construction phasing and laydown plan that allowed the integration of these two new large venues into an existing 2,800-student campus with no disruption to student functions. The new state-of-the-art facilities are integrated seamlessly into one of the oldest active high school facilities in Cobb County while tying into the site’s complex network of 60-year-old utility infrastructure. The project includes the renovation of the main classroom building on campus, including repainting and boiler replacement.
