At MMA Architects, innovation is our heartbeat, passion fuels our creativity, and trust defines our legacy.
We’re not just an Architectural Design Firm; we’re the pioneers of immersive, forward-thinking design experiences.
MMA’s journey is a tapestry woven with diverse expertise across retail, commercial, mixed-use, healthcare, and educational domains.
Since 1996, MMA has stood as a vanguard of innovation, continuously pushing the boundaries of architectural excellence. In a quarter century, MMA has etched its name among the elite, earning accolades and acclaim from Fortune 500 Companies and industry-leading publications alike. Our firm’s growth hasn’t just been geographical; it’s been exponential in the longstanding relationships we have formed.
With founding members and veterans boasting decades of service, MMA’s leadership stands as the cornerstone of our firm. The collective experience of our team, coupled with strategically located offices, ignites a wealth of talent beyond expectation. Every project reflects unwavering commitment
to perfection, where every detail matters. At MMA, client service isn’t just a promise; it’s our ethos. We strive to exceed expectations and establish enduring partnerships built on trust and mutual success.
Beyond architecture, we’ve ventured outside conventional bounds. Integrated project delivery steers our focus, producing revolutionary facilities across the nation.
Our designers and artists craft engaging animations, state-of-the-art virtual reality experiences and narrative films offering a collection of services that continue to push the boundaries of design.
Join us on this exhilarating journey where innovation meets immersion, where architecture transcends the conventional, and where every project is a testament to our commitment to redefining excellence.
At MMA, we understand that reconfiguring current space can be both costly and timeconsuming. Organizational needs, market pressures, and industry regulations, coupled with site limitations can present new and unique challenges.
Space that is antiquated, ineffectively designed or underutilized can impact key performance indicators such as quality, safety, employee engagement and customer satisfaction, which in turn affects an organization’s financial success.
By employing an Integrated Project Delivery system (IPD) utilizing Design for Manufacturing & Assembly (DfMA) with modular panels, MMA generates efficiencies throughout all phases of the design, fabrication, and construction process. Every aspect of the project from entitlements and permits, to design, manufacturing, sourcing, and assembly is skillfully managed, ensuring projects reach the market more quickly.
MMA employs an Integrated Project Delivery System (IPD) utilizing Design for Manufacturing & Assembly (DfMA) approach which incorporates prefabricated walls, building systems, HVAC, lead shielding, magnet technology, vacuum plumbing systems, and any other innovations the job requires. Our streamlined approach addresses space complexity, ensures build consistency, and enhances speed to market. Our solutions have low life cycle costs, are clean, durable, and dependable, with potential for future repurposing and adaptability.
We are not just designers; we are also manufacturers, assemblers, builders, and sourcing experts for every component and system of the project. The prefabrication, modularization and standardization of construction processes and assets within factory-controlled environments, supported by DfMA techniques, offers a viable solution to traditional build challenges.
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Traditional Design Bid-Build often results in construction deliverables that lack build consistency, as various contractors manage means and methods, resulting in finish and quality inconsistencies from box to box. At a time when our industry is facing a skills shortage, taking the build off site to a factory-controlled environment reduces the levels of resources required and removes the dependency on traditional construction
skills.panels. Design solutions “assembled” on-site rather than “constructed” on-site offers the prospect of using fewer people in a more controlled and safer environment.
IPD is a construction project delivery method that combines ideas from integrated practice and lean construction processes. It seeks efficiency and involvement from all participants (people, systems, business structures and practices) through all phases of design, fabrication, and
construction. IPD reduces CAPEX complexity by simplifying key processes with a unified project execution approach, allowing the client to better manage CAPEX risk.
DfMA is used as the foundation for concurrent engineering processes to simplify and fully optimize the structure wherever possible, to reduce manufacturing and assembly costs and to quantify improvements. By facilitating greater off-site manufacturing and vastly reducing on-site construction, buildings are constructed with higher levels of speed and safety. This process delivers both resource and cost efficiencies, and does not impede creative design, inspiration, or compromise on quality.
Our IPD approach involves all key stakeholders at the early planning stages of the project, including owners, architects, contractors, suppliers, and consultants. This approach aims to optimize project outcomes holistically by emphasizing mutual goals, risk-sharing, and open communication. Our DfMA Documentary showcases our collaborative IPD bandwidth nationwide, and highlights some of our various team members from Trane, Accorn, CED, KI, USEI, Miller Knoll, and Harrington Casework.
IPD often requires more time upfront for thorough planning and collaboration, which generates smoother execution and fewer unexpected delays during construction. Changes and adjustments can be deliberated and implemented earlier in the process, therefor minimizing disruptions as the project progresses, resulting in a well-organized, clean, safe, and more efficient work environment that produces minimal waste.
The timelapse video from a Jacksonville, Florida project displays how our crews methodically assemble a health clinic, using scissor lifts and screw guns. It is an impressive quantity of work completed in such a short amount of time.
Our most recent project is a 6500 square foot health clinic assembled in eleven weeks allowing the client to open for business in record time. Our work included initial design, documentation, permitting, assembly, installing all FF&E, obtaining all required regulatory approvals, including physicist certifications and proper shielding for radiological diagnostics. The client’s compliance team was extremely satisfied with the outcome, as we exceeded their stringent construction compliance requirements, and they were thoroughly impressed with how clean and safe the project site was maintained…. Basically dust free.
To view the time lapse video of this healthcare project, along with an animated process of systems installation in field, please access the QR code.
We are now designing, assembling and building pharmacies, 100,000 square foot central prescription, mail order, and specialty prescription fulfillment facilities, as well as projects in optometry, vision, and branding programs nationwide.
Our walls are prefinished 22 gauge steel with sound attenuation and all required blocking.
Our pre-built walls are fully unitized, with all utilities (plumbing, electrical, etc.) in place.
Easy to assemble and disassemble.
95% cut to fit in the factory, only posts and trim are cut on-site, reducing mess, noise, and disruption.
Custom color matching is available to incorporate client branding.
Dedicated Installation \ manager \ project management.
International factory-certified installation network.
Installation costs are “turnkey” and all-inclusive.
To code fire suppression integration. Our collective team includes a furniture company and a door company.
MMA, in association with our nationally-based structural team, our ceiling manufacturer, and our wall manufacturer’s structural engineering team have collectively developed a method of utilizing a clipping system that is secured to the ceiling grid and two perimeter walls excluding the necessity to have the walls to be braced to the deck.
This method maximizes ease of construction, cost containment, and accelerates speed to market.
Our prefabricated, demountable walls offer substantial advantages over traditional construction because they are considered furniture. This classification allows for less rigorous permitting requirements and accelerated depreciation, resulting in immediate savings to an organization in both time and dollars.
Magnets have been used for thousands of years by many cultures throughout the world, often for therapeutic purposes. Today magnets are incorporated in industrial machinery, consumer products, computers, and even transportation. Industrial Magnets are used in auto manufacturing and aerial manufacturing industries to hold and transport large metal components. Electromagnets are used in industrial conveyor systems, and by cranes to pick up and drop heavy loads.
We utilize magnet technology as part of our health clinic designs as magnets offer increased adaptability and flexibility to the end user. The
steel surfaces of our walls allow everything a health space requires, including monitors, workstations, inter-diagnostic panels, lead apron racks, sharps containers, gloves, and paper towel holders, etc., to be mounted via magnets specifically designed to hold the corresponding weight.
When there is a need to repurpose a room or adjust equipment to meet regulatory codes, there is no need to drill into the walls. Our innovative magnet technology is strong and safe and allows for the design, branding, or function of a room to be changed easily by just adding or removing the necessary items. No mess, no holes, no hassle.
For health care projects, MMA utilizes sound attenuation materials in conjunction with our wall system’s Sound Transmission Class (STC) rating, air exchange grilles in the ceilings, and sound masking systems to address patient privacy, HIPAA compliance regulations and health facility accreditation standards.
Sound attenuation materials are used to reduce the transmission of sound between two spaces. These materials are especially useful in healthcare facilities where patient privacy is critical. There are several types of sound attenuation materials, including sound barriers,
sound-absorbing materials, and sound isolation products. These materials work by absorbing, reflecting, or diffusing sound waves. To maximize patient privacy, we utilize 1-3/4 inch think ceiling tiles and lay insulation over them for additional noise absorption.
For health clinic builds, we exclusively use Plug & Play technology, as opposed to hardwiring. The electrical wiring in our modular walls only requires a junction box in the ceiling for modular installers to easily daisy chain power to the harness in the ceiling for instant power. Each light fixture quickly connects to another with a connector, which ensures that there are no failures and maintains compliance with all applicable codes and UL ratings.
Utilizing Plug & Play technology reduces installation time and the inspections and permits required, and decreases associated labor and product costs that would be found using traditional electrical applications. Plug & Play technology saves time and money when compared to conventional lighting installations and electrical power.
“MMA’s environmental commitment is consistent with LEED philosophy & Green Construction processes”
We consider our products 100% reusable, truly a great environmental story. There is zero waste diverted to a landfill and there are no costs associated with disposal. In fact, if there are any recyclables to discard, MMA will give those to the client to capture the recycling refunds.
By applying IPD and DfMA techniques to design and build, our forward-thinking mindset supports the realization that buildings no longer need to be constructed in the traditional sense. Our firm’s innovations take shape by embracing similar manufacturing and assembly methods to those successfully utilized by the aerospace and automotive industries.
Our collective team can manufacture parts as needed and have them ready to go as projects evolve. Our method of using unitized wall systems and modular components, supported by new off-site manufacturing technology and semi-automated assembly production allows our projects to be delivered to our clients faster, ultimately lowering costs, and improving quality and sustainability.
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At MMA, we redefine medical retail spaces through a dynamic fusion of cuttingedge innovation, evidencebased design principles, current healthcare trends, and pioneering methodologies.
Our expertise breathes new life into technologically complex environments. Whether we are working with new construction or retrofitting existing buildings, our designs reflect our ability to transcend boundaries and offer effective solutions even in the most challenging situations.
At the core of MMA’s design philosophy is a commitment to enhancing the healthcare experience. We understand that the layout and aesthetics of a medical retail space can significantly impact patient well-being and staff performance. We prioritize creating environments that are not only functional but also welcoming and calming,
through careful selection of finishes, thoughtful space planning, and the integration of advanced technology to streamline operations-all aimed at improving patient care.
MMA’s medical retail portfolio includes a range of facilities such as pharmacies, urgent care centers, and specialty clinics. Each project is a testament to our ability to combine innovative design with practical functionality. We leverage our extensive experience across retail and healthcare sectors to create spaces that are both efficient and patient centric.
Join us in our commitment to innovation and quality as we redefine the future of medical retail design, ensuring that every project is an opportunity to improve healthcare delivery and enhance the patient experience.
We create detailed sketches of your project to bring your vision to life, tailored to your site’s unique features. Our innovative design approach ensures that each space meets your operational needs and creating an engaging environment.
We shape interior spaces by skillfully manipulating spatial volume and surface treatments, enhancing functionality while reflecting the unique character of each site. We ensure that every interior design solution optimizes usability and enriches the overall experience.
By integrating innovative design principles and a community-centric approach, we ensure that every project reflects the unique character of its surroundings while contributing positively to the overall fabric of the community.
We carefully navigate zoning regulations, municipal codes, and neighborhood council considerations to secure timely project approval from Planning Commissions or City Councils. Our goal is to create developments that enhance community identity and long-term value.
We prepare dimensioned architectural drawings and details specifications for construction which describe the materials, size and relationships of built components, ensuring compliance with regulations and enhancing project success.
During construction we serve as our client’s advocates, maintaining open communications and facilitating efficient project execution by interpreting construction drawings and addressing inquiries. Our proactive approach ensures seamless coordination among the project team.
We create renderings at any project stage, using innovative design concepts and attention to detail. Our visualizations serve as powerful tools for communication and gaining community support, enhancing the project’s appeal and conveying its potential impact.
Using immersive technology, we offer 360-degree views of your project. Our interactive design experience empowers clients to explore their projects in unprecedented ways, ensuring clarity, engagement, and informed decision-making throughout the design and development phases.
We create dynamic animations that vividly illustrate design concepts shaping the way a project is showcased using the latest technology available helping to provide a clear visualization of how the project will integrate into its surrounding community.
By prioritizing sustainable practices throughout the design process, we create projects that contribute positively to their surroundings, fostering long-term environmental stewardship and enhancing the quality of life for current and future generations.
We are excited to embark on this journey with you, whether it’s through a discussion about the latest architectural trends, exploring new professional opportunities, or developing groundbreaking concepts that will shape the future. Together, we can create something truly fantastic.
