As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m in Portland, Oregon attending the 44th annual SCUP conference.  There are 14 HOKers here from across the U.S. and Canada, and not only are we learning lots and meeting great people, we’re also sharing HOK greatness with the world.

To be specific, HOK greatness includes:

• 2009 National SCUP Campus Planning Award – District Category for the University of Alabama Science and Engineering Precinct Master Plan (Tuscaloosa, Alabama). Accepted by Crystal Barriscale and Paul Woolford (San Francisco) and our University of Alabama Clients, this award recognizes the University’s new precinct which focuses on science and engineering and creates a new pedestrian

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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….