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Who is DLR Group?

DLR Group is a 100% employee-owned, global, integrated design firm with offices around the globe advancing toward the goals of the 2030 Challenge to elevate the human experience through design. Our unique approach to integrating architecture, engineering, planning, and interiors with a diverse array of specialty services provides an unmatched depth of design expertise to our private and public clients. This result in evidence-based, innovative design for public and private clients in every space they learn, live, play, govern, and work.

What kind of buildings does DLR Group design?

DLR Group designs schools where students are empowered and hospitals where patients are cared for with empathy. We connect citizens to public services and thriving communities through critical infrastructure assets, civic facilities, and mixed-use destinations that celebrate daily life. We design hotels and resorts that redefine the guest experience and workplaces where employees find growth and wellbeing. Champions thrive and fans unite in our stadiums, and we set new standards for the arts in award-winning museums and theaters. Our justice design work is rooted in an ethos of healing, equity, and transformation, and our federal design work delivers secure, resilience buildings around the world. And we don’t stop there. Beyond the building, our urban planning experts shape a more resilient society, while our renewables team powers a more sustainable future with utility-scale arrays.

What services does DLR Group offer?

DLR Group offers a synchronized suite of services that influence everything you see, touch, hear, and feel in the built environment. These include our core services of architecture, engineering – including civil, electrical, mechanical, and structural – interiors, planning, as well as specialty services such as acoustic design, audiovisual systems design, experiential graphic design, high performance design, landscape design, lighting design, preservation, reality capture, science+technology, and theatrical design.

Why does DLR Group design?

Our promise is to elevate the human experience through design. How does this deeply rooted passion fuel our day-to-day?

What are DLR Group’s core values?

Across the globe, we are connected through core values of commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, and teamwork. Our values underpin more than 60 years of success and continue to guide our decision-making. We care deeply about our planet and communities. We donate more than a million dollars a year and volunteer more than 10,000 hours a year in pursuit of a positive, shared future.
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Why should I work at DLR Group?

We are a 100% employee-owned, integrated design firm. This provides an array of career opportunities to explore. The concept of ownership, its importance to our culture, and the immense benefits are rather simple. Driven by opportunity, we make decisions that impact not only our success but also that of our clients and partners. Ready to advance your career at our integrated design firm?
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Where does DLR Group have offices?

We have more than 35 studios globally, with a network of employee-owners spanning coast-to-coast in the United States and internationally in the Middle East and Shanghai. Our impact extends beyond this constellation of offices: DLR Group designs can be found in more than 30 countries around the world.
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Who leads DLR Group?

DLR Group’s Chief Executive Officer is Steven McKay, AIA, RIBA. Learn more about his 2022 elevation to CEO.
By design, DLR Group does not have a corporate headquarters. All aspects of firm leadership – executive, operations, and design – are distributed across our studios. This places senior staff and experts close to clients and the next generation of DLR Group leaders.
See who’s leading DLR Group.

What does ‘DLR’ stand for?

The ‘DLR’ in our name stands for our three founders, architects Irving Dana, Bill Larson, and engineer Jim Roubal. In 1966, they founded the firm on ideals of fairness and ownership. That’s why the ‘Group’ after DLR Group is equally important. Together we as a group own and guide the firm and our clients’ success.
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