Markets
Stratus provides advanced consulting and design skills to serve a diverse set of industries. Though our markets are vast, we have teams dedicated to each sector with specialized technical expertise to solve complex problems within different industries. As many industries are intertwined, our team offers the proficiency to navigate through cross-market projects.
Learn more about the markets we serve below.
Civic
Stratus has vast experience in providing architecture, engineering, and surveying services for a multitude of states and localities. We assist state and local government clients with significant projects including site development, infrastructure improvements, drainage, and stormwater management as well as architecture, structural, and M/E/P services.
Municipal Facilities
Stratus provides design of facilities for public-sector clients. Markets include educational, judicial, correctional, and government services. Our project management process and permitting expertise deliver high-quality municipal facilities on or under budget and schedule – especially important when managing taxpayer-funded projects. Civic staff have decades of experience designing fire stations, correctional facilities, courthouses, and similar public buildings. Designs meet budget and schedule requirements while complying with all necessary certifications, including LEED sustainable design.
Parks & Greenspaces
Stratus offers planning, design, construction, and water resource management services for state and local park and greenspace facilities. We take pride in helping clients enhance the community’s quality of life. Our team offers consulting services for park related projects including athletic fields, buildings, pedestrian bridges and trails, and other amenities. As a full-service architecture and engineering firm, Stratus can execute projects efficiently by providing Parks and Recreation Departments with broad expertise under one roof.
Utilities
An essential part of every development project is the planning for adequate water and wastewater utility systems. Planning determines whether the project can access existing systems or whether new ones must be developed. Stratus offers design services for all kinds of water and wastewater systems, including water treatment, water storage, water distribution systems, wastewater treatment, wastewater pump stations, gravity sewers and force mains. Design services also cover other utilities such as natural gas, electrical power, and telecommunications systems. Each plan is carefully designed to meet both construction and regulatory requirements. Stratus’ broad experience provides the skills necessary to face any challenge that may occur during the design and construction process.
Commercial
Stratus has designed a wide range of commercial and mixed-use projects in urban and suburban areas that engage the surrounding communities and improve the larger urban fabric of which they are a part. Our commercial experience includes corporate workplace, retail, hospitality, multi-family residential, and mixed-use developments, often involving complex programs and multi-use sites and spaces that cater to various user groups. Our wide array of facility type expertise is supplemented by our extensive experience implementing appropriate, efficient, and innovative building systems and construction methods.
Corporate
Stratus offers corporate clients programming, planning, design, engineering, and construction services for a variety of design types including headquarter facilities, fulfilment centers, satellite offices, office expansions, conference rooms, and workspaces. Our corporate facilities offer employers and employees opportunities for growth, collaboration, and success through state-of-the-art building systems and evidence-based workplace strategies.
Mixed-Use
We design mixed-use developments to help communities respond to growing market demands for sustainable, accessible, and energized environments. These developments create an enhanced sense of community and encourage pedestrian and bike-friendly travel, among other benefits to residents, workers, and visitors.
Residential
We are committed to the future success of the communities in which we work and strive to design projects that celebrate and enhance their surroundings while creating inviting environments for their inhabitants. Our more than 20 million square feet of residential development projects include affordable, market-rate, and luxury housing; communal housing; student housing; assisted and senior living facilities; garden apartments; townhomes; lofts; and low-, mid-, and high-rise buildings and multi-family developments. Our projects contain a variety of uses including a mixture of residential typologies, amenities, recreational components, landscape, parking, public and private components, and retail / commercial uses. Many of the group’s projects involve challenging site planning and design solutions that require collaboration with multiple stakeholders and community members.
Education
Our educational work spans the public and private sector and addresses learning environments for K-12 and higher education clients across the country. Our team’s experience comprises more than one billion square feet of educational facilities, including programming, campus planning, prototype development, and interior design services, as well as traditional architectural and engineering services for new construction, renovation, and historic rehabilitation projects.
In all our educational projects we strive to create environments that are innovative and flexible to facilitate various teaching methods and enhance the student learning experience. We fully engage the culture and pedagogy of the educational clients we collaborate with to deliver projects that serve their greater missions, goals, and visions and can transition with institutions as they grow and evolve.
K-12
We work with school districts to plan, design, and build 21st century facilities of all scales that serve a broad range of learning styles and student populations. We implement the latest trends and findings in safety, pedagogy, and sustainability into each project to deliver designs that adhere to strict schedule and budget requirements without sacrificing performance.
Private
Stratus plans, designs, and delivers quality buildings and master plans to private k-12 educational institutions across the country. Our designs enhance the student experience and offer educators, families, and students a safe and enriching place to learn and grow. We have designed auditoriums, dining facilities, classroom buildings, lab buildings, performing arts centers, media centers, athletics facilities, and a variety of miscellaneous administrative facilities.
Higher Education
Our varied building type experience and robust educational practice allows us to service our Higher Education clients with a variety of project types including dormitories, new classroom buildings, medical office buildings, master plans, and many others. We work with colleges and universities to weave their history and vision into each project while looking towards the future of design and educational practices.
Federal Government
Stratus provides full-service engineering expertise in new design, renovation, and expansion projects for Department of Defense (DoD) agencies. We bring a skilled design team to address the Federal Government’s needs.
Buildings
Federal facilities are essential to housing key services for the public. Our team has worked with agencies to provide design services for a variety of building types. Through our experience, we can design office buildings, courthouses, educational facilities, military instillations, and more.
Fuels
Stratus has designed, inspected, studied, planned, upgraded, and/or repaired literally hundreds of POL facilities in 50 states, both US territories (Guam and Puerto Rico), and 16 foreign countries on six continents. we have extensive experience with each type of POL system used by the Department of Defense.
Our design experience includes: Air Force Types III and IV aircraft hydrant refueling systems; aboveground storage tanks (API 650), underground storage tanks including the field-erected, cut-and-cover type (NATO STANAG); tank truck offloading systems; aircraft refueler truck loading; tank (rail) car offloading and loading; marine loading and offloading facilities including marine loading arms; truck parking areas; SPCC Plans; API Standard 653 aboveground storage tank inspections; inspections of field-erected, underground, cut-and-cover tanks; facility studies and engineering evaluations; API Standard 570 pipeline inspections; storage depots; operation buildings; and maintenance buildings.
Infrastructure
Design of critical infrastructure is integral to the built environment of federal projects. Our team specializes in providing substantial assets such as transportation, water/stormwater/sewer resources, and electric utilities, to name a few. Our team is familiar with federal, state, and local governments to help clients navigate permitting and coordination requirements.
Industrial
Stratus designs industrial systems, power plants, refineries, distribution centers, and test facilities for our clients, helping them to improve production capacities and product quality while reducing operational expenses. Time to market is a critical competitive distinction, and our efficient designs and process engineering minimize downtime and keep projects on or ahead of schedule. We bring an experienced team to each project, one that has tackled complex projects and worked in highly integrated environments.
Consumer Goods
When bringing a new consumer product line to market, you need the help of an experienced partner. Based on years of work for clients including industry‐leading businesses and food consumer brands, Stratus has mastered the design requirements of the consumer goods industry, saving time to launch for each facility. Our expertise includes design for food + beverage, greenfield facilities, refrigeration, facilities additions, process design sanitation, cold storage, wastewater, bakery, meat processing, prepared food, pet food, stainability, environment systems and facilities. We bring a long-term ownership mindset, concentrating on investment and operating plans that seek to create enduring value and a sustainable and efficient food supply chain.
We understand the importance of safety, standards, regulation, and sanitation. We continuously improve our focus on safety and sanitation requirements to minimize the intrusive issues of construction and preventing delays in delivering product to customers.
Manufacturing
We can expand or retrofit a facility through every stage of development: materials receipt, handling, and storage; ingredient mixing and blending; processing; and more. We help your team source and integrate the right equipment to achieve the highest standards of cleanliness, regulatory compliance, and quality. Stratus accommodates complex processing machinery in an efficient and safe configuration. We consider the client’s needs and the workflow of the facility’s end users to ensure that solids, liquids, gases, and other chemicals are processed in a cost-effective and safe manner.
Our team can bring your desired packaging lines together, providing safe, effective, and flexible solutions for existing and future products. Our designs create an unparalleled commitment to introducing the technology that provides optimal production and competitive advantages. We build platforms that leverage our strategic expertise in food production, processing, packaging, palletization, and distribution to source proprietary solutions, working alongside trusted partners and supporting strong management teams.
Oil & Gas
Stratus provides full-service project development, design, implementation, and consulting services to clients at multiple levels of the dynamic oil & gas market. We maximize our clients’ Return on Investment while listening to community input and minimizing environmental impact.
Our team has developed new or expanded terminal facilities for more than 17 million barrels of product encompassing almost three million cubic meters. We’ve designed solutions for a wide variety of receipt and distribution channels. And, we’ve created safe and cost-effective solutions for special-needs projects like clean rooms, machine rooms, and other heavy industrial facilities. From generating technical feasibility studies to managing multi-contractor teams to remain on time and on or under budget, we bring a depth of technical knowledge and a clear awareness of business imperatives to every industrial client partnership.
Transportation
From roadways to railways to runways and beyond, our transportation experts can help you move people efficiently, cost-effectively, and in a safe and environmentally friendly fashion. We help clients move people on land from city to city; from rail station to subway station; and from home to bike path and back again.
All our projects require innovative solutions, superior design, awareness of schedule and budget, and extensive public relations work. Our transportation professionals have the expertise and experience to meet the demands of any aviation, logistics, port, roadway, or rail project.
Air
We run the transportation gamut for a broad range of aviation clients, designing landside facilities, taxiways, runways, terminals, hangars, car rental facilities, air cargo, freight terminals, and more.
Stratus assesses the individual needs of each project by focusing on the needs of the user. For airside projects, we economize operations and create designs with the flexibility to accommodate a variety of aircraft. Terminal area and landside facilities design is carefully planned to benefit the flying public directly while ensuring that the infrastructure provides maximum support to airside operations.
Additionally, Stratus’ aviation fueling specialists address a wide spectrum of system needs including hydrant distribution, fuel storage, and fuel distribution systems. We have expertise in engineering components for entire facilities as well as individual systems to optimize operational efficiency.
Logistics
Stratus works with logistics clients to provide pre-development, due diligence and consulting, land development engineering, surveying, and construction management services for the transport, storage, distribution, and warehousing of materials and finished goods. Our experts consider aspects of layout including traffic patterns, loading/unloading, and space optimization. Our knowledge of permitting in dense urban environments ensures that warehouse designs fit into allotted space while complying with all pertinent regulations.
The logistic facility development process first develops an understanding of each owner’s overall business. We then engineer site solutions tailored to meet these needs. Our evaluations, concept plans, and analyses maximize a site’s utility and revenue potential. Stratus incorporates risk reduction and feasibility calculations into its designs — ensuring that projects move forward when profitable for the client.
Ports
Stratus has delivered design and consulting services to port environments, providing solutions for port facilities and marine terminals. We provide construction, rehabilitation, and renovation services for numerous types of industrial facilities, including cruise terminals and port facilities. Our engineers design piping, docks, riparian boundaries, bulkheads, and other marine infrastructure.
Stratus staff has the broad-ranged talent required to provide effective dock designs and product handling arrangements for vessels from river barges to oceangoing vessels. Our project managers combine the highly technical requirements of soundings, hydrodynamic analysis, civil, geotechnical, structural, mechanical, and environmental disciplines unique to marine environments.
Rail
Rail is a primary component of many core markets, ranging from oil & gas to municipal infrastructure and industrial land development (railroad crossings, collection systems, stormwater infrastructure). Stratus provides railway surveying, design, permitting, and construction management including energy facilities, loading/offloading infrastructure, industrial park track designs, manufacturing and distribution plants, transload and storage facilities, rail spurs, intermodal facilities, and public-sector railroad crossings.
We have successfully provided a wide variety of rail loading, unloading, switching, and staging spur designs for chemical and petroleum clients. Stratus staff members have extensive knowledge in the rail-specific areas of product containment, stormwater management, access platforms, and fire protection.
Roadways
Stratus has designed concrete, asphalt, pervious, and other types of roads and parking facilities for public and private clients. We assist clients in securing Federal and State funding and to plan, permit, and implement their transportation projects including railroads, pedestrian bridges, trailways, and traffic plans. These projects have ranged from a 215-foot, single-span pedestrian bridge to rail-to-trail studies, to total infrastructure rehabilitation.
Most roadway-related projects require the need for innovative solutions, superior design, awareness of schedule and budget, and extensive public relations work. Stratus’ transportation professionals have the expertise and experience to meet the demands of any roadway project. To best support transportation clients, Stratus blends multiple disciplines into a unified, start-to-finish approach tailored to clients’ specific business operations.