Treanor Student Life

Treanor will be breaking ground on its new office at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3. Meet us at 1040 New Hampshire for a celebration of the great things to come!

Treanor Architects is proud to announce the launch of its new Sustainability Committee. The committee was formed as a grassroots effort within the company to serve as a resource and advocate for environmental sustainability. Through the incorporation of sustainable practices, educating employees and clients, and creating an environmentally responsible outreach program, this committee will address firm-wide needs in the area of environmental consciousness.

The group is led by two sponsoring principals and also of representatives from each of Treanor’s design studios:

• Justice – Sponsoring Principal Andy Pitts, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
• Interior Design – Sponsoring Principal Audrie Wenger, IIDA
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LAWRENCE, KS – Campus safety and security continues to be an important issue on every campus today. But it's not just about adding new access technologies and safety policies. From planning to building design to landscaping, there are a variety of factors that can impact the actual safety— and how secure students feel— on campus. Many of them have to do with how your campus— and the residences on it— are designed.

Treanor Architects, experts in designing living and learning environments for students, advises examining these key areas:

A safe master plan ...

LAWRENCE, KS – Every few years, the lifestyle needs of college students begin to shift. Keeping up can be a constant battle. Yet in a climate where students are sophisticated consumers, campuses that don’t make adjustments to their residence halls are going to be left behind.

One of the biggest campus living trends to watch, according to Treanor Architects, experts in planning and designing student life facilities, is the integration of the community learning center into students’ living environment. This highly technological fusion ...

LAWRENCE, KS – At a time when colleges and universities are juggling tight funding and burgeoning needs, comprehensive planning for building projects has never been more important. Finding time for a detailed process can be tough. Workloads don’t shrink to accommodate the task, but it’s an investment that, when done well, pays off big.

Treanor Architects, an architecture firm specializing in student life buildings, offers seven reasons for colleges and universities to be thorough in planning that next building project:

Planning sets the priorities ...

LAWRENCE – Treanor Architects has been retained to renovate the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity house at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

Pi Kappa Alpha’s national governing body selected Treanor to renovate PIKE’s Beta Phi Chapter house, home to one of the largest Greek organizations at the prestigious midwestern university.

The $5 million project is schedule to begin in December.

Treanor Architects is a design firm providing services in architecture, planning, interior design, historic preservation and graphic design. Established in 1981, Treanor currently employs more than 100 professionals and support staff. Treanor provides a full scope of architectural services ...

LAWRENCE, KS – For many colleges and universities, finding the funding to move critical residence and student life projects forward during an economic slowdown is proving to be a challenge. But for those campuses that are well positioned to go forward— or thinking about putting new projects on the drawing board— fears about a weak economy are not slowing their progress.

In fact, when it comes to return on investment, campuses that can secure the funds won’t find a better time to build. Consider these five factors:

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