Today is a big day at HOK. It’s the day we celebrate our offices to the north: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Toronto, as we celebrate Canada Day. If you’re new to the office or visiting today, you would have noticed the Canadian flag displayed outside of the various HOK offices, and the reason why everyone is wearing red and white — it is customary to wish anyone wearing red a Happy Canada Day. As we at HOK celebrate all of our offices, and the wide range of locales they may be in, I myself can’t wait for the American Independence Day. Especially because we have been granted the day off to …

It was 9:00am, and we were already running behind. We were supposed to meet up with Joe Pettipas, the newly transferred Senior Vice President in the HOK Calgary office at 10. But we couldn’t help stop at the Dinosaur Valley before making our way into Calgary.

Drumheller, the Dinosaur Capital of the world as they call themselves, has had the largest concentration of dinosaur finds in North America. It just so happens it also has the most inflatable dinosaur heads per capita as well. Its kind of strange to see plastic dinosaurs running amuck while you’re exloring thousands of years of history….

I think a lot of people know that I am quite the sports fan. It’s really the only positive that many of us have right now, and being that we have offices all over the continental United States and Canada. I thought it would be an appropriate time to take a look at how they are doing. Especially since most are at the half way point in there seasons, or almost at the end.

Atlanta Hawks (NBA) – Dreaming of the days of Dominique Wilkins and Spud Webb
Atlanta Falcons (NFL) – Did better then expected, but can’t seem to get out of the shadow of a former player.
Atlanta Thrashers (NHL) – The owner is a crook, and the fans don’t know they exist.
Atlanta …