Recent Articles
20 Mass earns GADA award
The Global Architecture Design Awards have honored the LEO A DALY-designed 20 Mass with a silver award for mixed-use development.
LEO A DALY Wins AIA Potomac Valley Merit Award for Thurgood Marshall Hall
The AIA Potomac Valley jury praised the project’s thoughtful response to the campus context, saying, “We appreciated the response to the campus architecture—it contributes to the surrounding context with a modern building that reinterprets the Georgian campus. It carries its strength in the exterior.”
American Architecture honors 20 Massachusetts Ave NW in Washington, D.C.
LEO A DALY’s 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW redevelopment project has earned an American Architecture Award for 2024. This prestigious accolade celebrates cutting-edge design in the U.S. and recognizes the year’s most innovative architectural achievements, making it the highest honor in the domestic building awards circuit.
LEO A DALY Chairman Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Leo A. Daly III is honored at the 32nd Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference for fostering cultural understanding and international relations.
LEO A DALY structural engineer featured in Modern Steel Construction
The article offers a case study of the Saint Francis Hospital renovation and new bed tower in Muskogee, Oklahoma. It details the considerations into choosing a steel structural system as well as special design features of the project.
Tampa VA Mental Health Center Earns SAME 2024 Design Merit Award
LEO A DALY design for James A. Haley VA Mental Health Center streamlines therapeutic care for Veterans
Every two years the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) celebrates design excellence in the built environment. The SAME 2024 Design Merit Award was presented to members of the LEO A DALY planning, architecture, engineering and interior design team during the Society Ball & Awards Gala at the 2024 JETC conference in Orlando.
“The entire focus of design for the James A. Haley VA Mental Health Center—both inside and out—was to create a healing, therapeutic, restorative environment that would help enhance the lives of Veterans,” shared Federal Healthcare Global Account Lead, Peter A. Yakowicz, PE, MHA. “After three months in operation, it is also so rewarding to hear firsthand from staff how the planning and design of the facility makes it easier for them to do their important work.”
LEO A DALY’s ongoing collaboration with Veterans and the VA Staff who care for them has led to the transformation of Veterans’ health experiences.
“Is this really for us?” asked a Veteran visiting the James A. Haley VA Mental Health Center for the first time.
“And if we are not inviting, if we are not welcoming, then that communication can be lost, and the veteran themselves can be lost on top of it.” shared Dr. Glenn Smith, Retired VA Mental Health Specialist and Veteran James A. Haley VA
“Our staff love coming to work here,” Bradiel Perez Pagan, Clinic Manager at the James A. Haley VA Mental Health Center
LEO A DALY provided full integrated design services including medical planning, architectural, interior design, structural engineering and MEP services for the award-winning VA mental health facility, which began seeing patients in ealy 2024. The trauma-informed and evidence-based design carefully balances the unique needs of Veterans and their caregivers.
The Green Globe certified project also integrates a list of sustainable design features: low wattage LED lighting, automatic lighting controls, a high-performance building envelope, water use reduction, reduced emissions, recycled materials, automated controls, and ecological landscaping.
