Workforce Development

Where higher ed meets industry, we bridge theory, practice, and torque with design to empower futures.

SSOE is a leader in aligning education design with workforce needs, a mission that’s becoming increasingly vital for post-secondary institutions, industrial corporations, and trade organizations alike. When choosing our experts to design your workforce development space, technical training facility, or innovation center, you have the advantage of our unique blend of expertise: significant automotive and industrial manufacturing experience combined with higher education and training center design dexterity. This potent combination is further enhanced by our ability to provide all services in-house.

Our strategic approach to project delivery ensures an optimized process resulting in a facility that incorporates the latest industry trends into a modern, flexible educational environment that serves to attract and retain students, educators, and researchers. We’re not just architects of spaces, we’re architects of futures.

Top 10

in Five Industrial Markets

Our niche expertise in workforce development center design comes from our ranking as a Top 10 Design Firm in four industrial markets (ENR) and a higher ed client list comprised of nearly 40 universities.

2M SF

Workforce Development Design

We’ve completed more than 2 million SF of workforce development and training center design for higher ed institutions, private industry, and trade unions.

70+

Clients Served

We have had the honor of providing our unique brand of services to more than 32 school districts and 40 colleges and universities across the country and most recently a national trade union.

“The fact that SSOE’s architects and engineers have been able to take our input, listen, and be upfront with their approach is a real strength. They have gone out of their way to try to understand our business and how we operate so that they could begin to design a space for us that really worked.”