The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the Energy Star program in 1992. Since that time, 40% of all Fortune 500 companies have relied on their partnership with Energy Star to deliver cost saving energy efficient solutions. Does your building have an Energy Star rating? If so, there are big changes coming as of August 26, 2018. The most impactful change is the fac...

Marx Okubo's New York office took advantage of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day on Thursday, April 27, 2017. The day started with a brief lesson about construction and site safety given by Stephen D’Arcy, Vice President and Regional Manager of the New York office. The next stop was lunch at Pizzeria Uno, and the older children took a tour of one of our residential projec...

For the third year in a row, Marx Okubo was a site host for the Richmond Leadership Public School "Internship Experience" program. As part of the program, the San Francisco Office hosted a high school senior to job shadow architectural and engineering professionals for two days. The intern was exposed to on-the-job experience, going to an active construction site in San Francis...

Marx Okubo conducted a Property Condition Assessment (PCA) of the 100-unit senior housing community located in Pacifica, California prior to acquisition by Bridge Housing. Based in part on the recommendations from our PCA, Marx Okubo served as the architect-of-record for the interior and exterior renovation of the property, addressing significant deferred maintenance issues and...

On February 15, 2017, Marx Okubo's Seattle office joined a Habitat for Humanity build in Pacific, Washington. The Veteran-focused project will provide nine low-income families with an affordable home and mortgage in a new housing development in Megan's Meadow. Long-term affordability will be ensured by constructing these homes to achieve or surpass NW Energy Star sustainable bu...

Marx Okubo will be attending the BuildingsNY Conference onMarch 21-22, 2017 at the Javits Center in New York. BuildingsNY, the largest gathering ofproperty owners, managers, designers and architects, delivers a broad range ofsolutions for building and maintaining smart, efficient buildings. This conference offers everything you need tomake your buildings smarter than ever. Don'...

Marx Okubo's Orange County, California office is proud to be a part of new transitional housing project that converted a four-unit, unlivable apartment building into clean, efficient homes for eight homeless families and up to 32 people. The project is located at 605 Calle Canasta in San Clemente, California, and Marx Okubo worked directly for Family Assistance Ministries (FAM)...

On September 8, 2016, Marx Okubo's San Francisco office participated in the largest corporate, international sporting event, the 40th annual J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge, which is dedicated to promoting workplace fitness and building relationships with new people. "You might meet people new to the company or people you've never encountered before in your day-to-day work," sa...

Marx Okubo welcomes Angela Stewart, P.E., Associate, Gustavo G. Chaves, LEED AP, CPMP, Associate, to its Atlanta office, Curtis B. Wayne, AIA, NCARB, Senior Associate, to its Northeast office, Michael R. Hirsch, Senior Associate, to its San Francisco office, and Michael Spassoff, Associate, to its Orange County office. Angie Stewart is responsible for preconstruction project re...

Marx Okubo welcomes Bradley S. Wolf, P.E. to its San Francisco office, Linda Waterhouse, AIA, NCARB, PMP, LEED GA and Thomas W. Hartmann, P.E. to its Denver office, Neal F. Dominick, P.E., LEED AP to its Houston office, and Marcus R. Guizar to its Orange County office. Brad Wolf, Senior Associate, has over 25 years of experience in facilities engineering, mechanical engineering...

Lake Forest, California celebrates the closing of escrow of four affordable-housing units at the Saguaro Open House. Learn more at HomeAid Orange County

On September 19, 2015, Families Forward held its annual "The Art of Giving" gala to celebrate 31 years of service to local families in crisis. The event was held at The Fairmont Hotel in Newport Beach, and at the event, Families Forward's former families in need shared their personal story about how the organization helped them through homelessness while trying to support two y...

Marx Okubo welcomes Allen Dedels, AIA, to its Atlanta office and Richard P. Milstead, NCARB, and Simon Yavari, PhD, P.E. to its Southern California office. Allen Dedels, Senior Associate, has over 27 years of experience in the design and construction industries, including all project phases for retail, higher education, healthcare, commercial, and mixed-use projects. Working th...

Marx Okubo welcomes Samantha Gragg, AIA, LEED AP, Linda Fu, RA, LEED AP, Richard P. Martin, CBCP, LEED AP BD+C, and Henry T. Leung, R.A., to its Southern California offices; James M. La Terza, P.E., LEED AP BD+C, O+M, to its New York office; David B. Noma, AIA, R.A., to its San Francisco office; and John Kundak, P.E., to its Atlanta office. Samantha Gragg, Associate, has been i...

Marx Okubo proudly welcomes Daniel J. Peterson, AIA, to its Houston office, Linda V. Kade, AIA, to its San Francisco office, Paul Oxenreider, P.E., LEED AP, to its Dallas office, Steven Yi, P.E., to its Seattle office, and Christopher E. Ruehl, R.A. LEED AP, to its New York office. Daniel Peterson, Senior Associate, has over three decades in experience in design development, co...

Marx Okubo prides itself on not only creation, but renovation.  We have garnered a respectable reputation as a top firm for renovations country-wide.  Most recently, Marx Okubo has finished renovating the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, California, which received high praise from the likes of Conde Naste, who rated it as one of their top five best new design hotels in the w...