Smith, Fause & McDonald, Inc.

One essential strength of SFMI is the depth of its Project design experience.  Working as both the Prime Consultant to Facility Owners and Operators and as consultant to Architectural teams has involved SFMI in more than 2,000 projects in the last twenty years. The range of projects includes:

• Civic Centers, including City Halls and Council Chambers.
• Commercial Construction, including Office Buildings, Corporate Tenant Improvements and Boardroom A/V facilities
• Convention Centers, including large scale distributed sound and video systems, CCTV, acoustics.
• Defense sector projects, including work on military bases, and Aerospace/Defense Industry Projects, including SCIF Isolation Rooms, photo-processing labs, chapels
• Entertainment facilities, including Theaters, Auditoriums, Cinemas, Recital Halls and Amphitheaters, spaces that incorporate all of the design services SFMI practices.
• Hotels and Casinos, including acoustics, audiovisual and intrusion detection systems.
• Industrial projects, including community noise impact and OSHA noise exposure.
• Libraries, including numerous public municipal and University libraries.
• Medical facilities, including Hospitals and Medical Office Buildings
• Municipal and Public Safety facilities, including local police, fire, parks and rec, corporation yard and office facilities, as well as civic communications network design.
• Recreational projects, including park communications utilities and environmental noise impact.
• Residential, including projects from multifamily apartments and condominiums to large scale subdivision development
• K-12 Schools, including projects ranging from the room acoustics of a single multipurpose building to the noise exposure of a single day care site to technology upgrades of entire school districts with the design of fiber optic backbones linking each site to one another
• R&D and Laboratory Spaces, including structured cabling infrastructure, emergency notification public address design, and noise control.
• Sports facilities, including stadium and arena sound systems, speedway noise impact, video editing and scoreboard facilities.
• Television Studios, Sound Stages, Video Editing Suites, Game Production and Audio Recording Studios, including acoustics, analog and video plant engineering and design of master technical ground.
• University and College facilities, including both campus-wide and single building technology, A/V and acoustics projects.
• Utility facilities providing nuclear generation, power distribution, water treatment, telephone central office and carrier distribution facilities.
• Worship spaces, including acoustics, sound, video and media production spaces.

While each project is unique, SFMI is often able to draw upon the experience of prior work on a similar building type, or can cross-fertilize the best practices ideas and approaches from public sector to industry and back.

The link buttons at left will take you through a short introduction to some of these Projects.

A large portion of SFMI's project experience does not yet appear on our website. If you would like information highlighting our work on projects similar to one you are considering, please contact us and we will be happy to prepare a custom resume for you.