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Employee Spotlight – Nate Considine

Nate Considine is an architect and delivery team leader for the Winnebago Delivery Team. Every day looks a little different for Nate, which is one of the reasons he enjoys his job. His role includes coordinating engineer consultants, preparing construction budgets, and working through design challenges with the project team. He is also in frequent…

January 25, 2022

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Employee Spotlight – Kate Egan

Kate Egan is a design specialist and architect who focuses on educational planning. She supports districts through their whole project – from the early days of developing a pre-referendum vision to working with the design team to ensure that vision is reflected in the building. Her recent work includes new construction, additions, and renovations with…

January 21, 2022

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Employee Spotlight – Michael Risselada

Michael Risselada is an architect specializing in construction administration and is responsible for reviewing projects as they are built to make sure the quality meets Bray’s standards His day-to-day tasks require Michael to be the liaison between the contractors and architectural design team. This includes shop drawing review, field observation, and working with the contractor…

January 14, 2022

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Celebrating Bray's 2021 Daily Reporter Features

There was a lot for Bray Architects to be proud of in 2021. Among our achievements were numerous features in the Daily Reporter, one of Wisconsin’s leading sources for construction news. Join us in taking a look back at the team members and projects we celebrated last year: Maria Welch, senior project specialist, is recognized…

January 11, 2022

A curved glass wall shows the school name and mascot in a renovated commons area at Butler Middle School in Waukesha

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Construction Wraps Up for School District of Waukesha Projects

If you’re familiar with the School District of Waukesha, you’ll have seen exciting changes to many of their facilities! The District is celebrating the completion of their latest set of facility improvement projects that were made possible by a successful referendum in November 2018. Bray, in partnership with Findorff construction, led the design and construction…

January 5, 2022

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Advocating for A4LE

Image above: Four Bray team members attended the 2021 LearningSCAPES conference of the Association for Learning Environments in Denver, Colorado. Above from left to right: Maria Welch, senior project specialist; Andrew Iverson, architect and project leader; Kate Egan, architect and project leader; and Allison Mastel, architect and project leader. Raising Awareness of an Important Organization…

Happy Holidays from Bray

We are honored and grateful to have an amazing network of team members, partners, clients, and neighbors who support our work and make every project we do meaningful. This holiday season, we hope you take a moment to feel our appreciation for the role you play with Bray.(Be sure to open the full graphic to…

December 21, 2021

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Get an 'Edge' with Sustainability

Spotlight on Forest Edge Elementary School The new Forest Edge Elementary School is an innovative K-6 school in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. As of September 2021, the building is net zero energy verified. It’s the first of its kind in Wisconsin, and the largest verified net zero school building in the United States. This state-of-the-art learning facility…

December 16, 2021

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Employee Spotlight – Jordan O'Connor

Jordan O’Connor is a project leader and architect currently working on the Black River Falls and Neenah High School projects. Jordan’s role includes leading the designers, coordinating construction documents, and communicating with the client at key project milestones. Jordan has been interested in design from an early age. He remembers drawing pictures of houses and…

December 14, 2021

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Employee Spotlight – Andrew Kerr

Andrew Kerr is a delivery team leader and architect at Bray. He is responsible for managing several projects, including work for the Kohler, New Glarus, and Columbus school districts, as well as the new McFarland Public Safety Building. He’s thankful for his two outstanding project leaders and talented team of designers who make his job…

December 7, 2021

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Employee Spotlight – Mark Miller

Mark Miller is a project architect with Bray’s special projects team. He is currently working on the Beyond Vision interior buildout project in West Allis, a new Plumbers Union 75 Training Center in Madison, a new district warehouse for Sheboygan Area School District, and renovations of United Township High School in East Moline, IL. Architecture…

November 30, 2021

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Employee Spotlight – Maria Welch

Maria Welch is an architect who helps project delivery teams develop a design concept for K-12 educational projects and ensures that the concept is integrated at all points throughout the design process. She enjoys the work of transforming abstract architectural concepts into a tangible design vision that the client will take ownership of as they…

November 29, 2021