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Simpson Roberts Architecture Interior Design Inc. is a multi-disciplinary architectural / interior design firm with experience that spans equally from historic building conservation to new construction in architecture, exhibit design, and urban planning. Since its inception in 1986, the partnership, owned by Lorne Simpson and Chris Roberts, registered architects, has comfortably expanded into a team of skilled designers and technicians. One of the guiding principles of Simpson Roberts Architecture Interior Design Inc. is the direct involvement the partners have with every project through to completion. This involvement includes the actual design, drawing, model building and administration work necessary for the successful completion of the project. Our goal is to ensure that the highest level of expertise and design skill is available to our clients for every project. As a firm, we believe that project context, program, budget, local culture and the nature of our client all contribute to giving a building and its interiors a unique and special character. Simpson Roberts Architecture Interior Design Inc. has an established reputation for high caliber work and award winning design. The firm has received over thirty awards for design excellence in various areas of specialization.  Heritage Conservation has become one noted area of specialization for Simpson Roberts. We are recognized in both the public and private sectors as a competent resource for the skills and precision required of historical architecture. This work is under the direction of Lorne Simpson who has received a Masters degree in Historic Building Conservation from the British renowned Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, in York. Our firm has completed work on two hundred historic structures located in Southern Alberta since 1986. This includes exclusive involvement with the Alberta Mainstreet Programs in Medicine Hat, Drumheller, Claresholm, Inglewood (Calgary), and Didsbury. We have conducted Quinquennial studies for several of Calgary's downtown historic sandstone churches and have rehabilitated 21 significant structures in Calgary's historic Stephen Avenue Mall district. Our range of expertise includes historic building inventories and condition assessments to building rehabilitation, planning and interpretive exhibit design. Our ongoing commitment to the preservation of our heritage is evident through having received numerous awards for completed projects. Since 1986 Simpson Roberts has become a recognized leader in the design of Computer and Control Centres. These projects involve the construction of buildings designed to function in hostile environments with high ambient H2S levels and potential blast over pressures ranging from 1.5 psi to 10.1 psi dynamic. In addition, these control facilities are designed to provide the very high standards of pressurization and humidity required in most process control environments. Simpson Roberts' experience in the design and construction of blast resistant control facilities is extensive. In addition to computer software that allows us to model predicted blast over pressures and design many building components (including window systems to 10 psi blast over pressures), we utilize research information received from the National Research Council of Canada, the Department of National Defense, the Manufacturing Chemists Association, the U.S Navy along with insurance company reports of actual plant explosions. Because of this experience, we also understand how the functional relationships within a control facility must respond to the requirements of a blast resistant structure. Along with actual models, the use of 3D computer modeling has become another important tool in the design of efficient, visually pleasing control rooms. This capability allows our clients to review the complete control room design in finite detail before construction ever begins. We find this a very effective tool in communicating our ideas with our clients. As sub-consultants to various engineering firms, Simpson Roberts has participated in Bridge Design since our firm's inception. In addition to our work on the restoration of historic bridge structures, our role normally includes public consultation, bridge alignment and span configuration, design of pier and abutment shapes, backslope protection details, guardrail design and all exposed finishes. Our bridge design experience includes the following:
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