Educational Projects

David H. Payne, AIA, LEED AP has 45 years experience as a practicing design architect.  He has designed and managed at least a hundred school projects costing anywhere from $250,000 to $38 million.  Because of his extensive and successful K-12 design experience and expertise, Mr. Payne, his staff and his engineering consultants have proven during their many years of working together on numerous educational projects that they have the necessary qualifications to provide your system with the highest standard of professional design and construction administration services.  Mr. Payne employs the “let’s solve this problem together” philosophy on every design project, in that he develops a complete understanding of each project's unique demands by personally working closely with each client from the beginning of the design process until the completion of construction.  We are certain that after detailed discussions with you and your personnel, Payne Design Group Architects will have a complete understanding of your school system’s functional and spatial requirements prior to their beginning any of the actual design process.  Our firm has no preconceived ideas, no stock solutions, and no “one size fits all” design philosophy.  We won’t be satisfied with any proposed design concept that we present to you until you are satisfied that we have created a new facility design, or a renovation design, or an addition design that precisely meets or exceeds your expectations.