Industrial

Smart design, resilient, and performance-driven.

In today’s global, fast‑moving marketplace, manufacturers and distributors need more than efficient facilities—they need environments designed for performance, resilience, and continuous improvement. Success demands a lean, value‑engineered approach supported by an integrated design team that listens closely, understands operations, and translates complexity into smart, scalable solutions.

Our in‑house industrial design team believes that intelligent design directly impacts the bottom line. We leverage data‑driven planning tools, operational modeling, and collaborative design processes to align facilities with real‑world workflows, automation strategies, and evolving supply chain demands. By deeply understanding each client’s operational priorities, customer commitments, and growth objectives, we deliver tailored solutions that increase efficiency, profitability, and long‑term adaptability.

Contact:

Michael Schmidt, AIA, NCARB
Senior Associate, Market Sector Lead - Industrial

Working with mass-merchandise, omni-channel corporations, Michael brings specific expertise with cold storage and logistics projects.

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60M+

Square feet of distribution/manufacturing facilities designed, providing a critical understanding of how to balance operational needs like storage, security, loading dock bays, waste streams, equipment charging, and efficient flow of product from the warehouse to the end user.

50+

Automated storage and retrieval system projects programmed and designed, assisting our industrial clients maximize facilities to positively impact the bottom line.

54M+

Food bank/pantry space assessed, programmed, and designed in the last three years, providing a proven community-focused process that brings everyone to the table to help drive a solution to help solve hunger.

45M+

Square feet of office space and corporate-branded environments designed, creating human-centered environments that balance story-telling, efficiency, functionality, and employee wellbeing.

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Perspectives

Perspectives
Maximizing return on investment of industrial facilities: Five Questions with Michael Schmidt
Maximizing return on investment of industrial facilities: Five Questions with Michael Schmidt

For high‑volume industrial and food distribution facilities, building design plays a critical role in operational efficiency and long‑term return on investment. In this interview, LEO A DALY Industrial Market Sector Leader Michael Schmidt explores how integrated, human‑centered, and future‑ready design strategies—from cold storage optimization to workforce safety, flexibility, and resilience—can improve daily operations and position industrial facilities for the demands of tomorrow.

Resilient design proved critical to Hurricane Ian relief efforts
Resilient design proved critical to Hurricane Ian relief efforts

Designed for resilience, the Cheney Bros food-distribution warehouse in Punta Gorda, Florida, more than weathered the storm. It provided safe harbor.