The firm is involved in multiple markets and building types including: corporate, healthcare, higher education, science and technology, and the federal government.

He apprenticed with Madison architects, James O. Gordon, in 1907 and briefly with Robert Wright before working at Chicago firms from 1909 to 1914.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the firm made a conscious decision to expand their experience designing hospital labs into a more global science and technology lab specialization designing corporate offices, data centers, training centers, and science and technology laboratories.

In 1998, the firm participated in the LEED Pilot Program to beta test the new rating systems with its Pharmacia Life Sciences Building project.

Eight of the firm's projects have been recognized in the Lab of the Year competition, held by R&D Magazine: R&D Magazine - 2011 Lab of the Year High Honors, University of California, Davis, Teaching and Research Winery and the August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory (WBF); Davis, California[14] R&D Magazine - 2008 Lab of the Year High Honors, Indiana University (Bloomington), Multidisciplinary Science Building - Simon Hall; Bloomington, Indiana[15] R&D Magazine - 2002 Renovated Lab of the Year, Bayer Corporation, Building 36; West Haven, Connecticut[16] R&D Magazine - 2001 Lab of the Year Special Mention, Lab Planning and Sustainability, Pharmacia Building Q; Skokie, Illinois[17] R&D Magazine - 1999 Lab of the Year, Chiron Corporation Life Sciences Building; Emeryville, California[18] R&D Magazine - 1996 Lab of the Year High Honors, Genentech Research Facility; South San Francisco, California[19] R&D Magazine - 1989 Lab of the Year High Honors, Bausch & Lomb Optics Research Center; Rochester, New York[20] R&D Magazine - 1982 Lab of the Year Special Mention, USDA Dairy Forage Research Laboratory; Madison, Wisconsin[21] Academic Indiana University (Bloomington), Multidisciplinary Science Buildings - Simon Hall (MSB I) and MSB II; Bloomington, Indiana University of California, Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology, Viticulture & Encology Research and Teaching Winery, and Anheuser Busch Brewing and Food Pilot Facility; Davis, California University of Connecticut, Lodewick Visitor's Center; Storrs, Connecticut University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biochemistry Building I & II; Madison, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Madison, DC Smith Greenhouses; Madison, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Communications Hall; Madison, Wisconsin Purdue University, Discovery Park (Purdue), Bindley Bioscience Center; West Lafayette, Indiana Healthcare Genesis Health System, Genesis Heart Institute; Davenport, Iowa Shands at the University of Florida, Shands Cancer Center; Gainesville, Florida SSM Health Care, St. Mary's Hospital, Satellite Emergency Center; Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Affinity Health System; Neenah, Wisconsin H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute; Tampa, Florida Life Sciences Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis, Indiana; Lafayette, Indiana; Greenfield, Indiana; and Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Amgen Helix Campus; Seattle, Washington Genentech Fill/Finish Facility; Hillsboro, Oregon Genentech Science Process Center; South San Francisco, California Boehringer Ingelheim; Ridgefield, Connecticut ZymoGenetics; Seattle, Washington Bayer Corporation; West Haven, Connecticut US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland Johnson & Johnson Research Center One; Springhouse, Pennsylvania Technology Kettle Foods, Processing Plant; Beloit, Wisconsin Stony Brook University Advanced Energy Research & Technology Center; Stony Brook, New York Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Physical Sciences Facility; Richland, Washington Workplace ACT (test) Corporate Headquarters; Iowa City, Iowa Bayer Corporation; West Haven, Connecticut American Family Insurance Headquarters; Madison, Wisconsin