Welcome to The United Illuminating Company
We are happy to announce our new relationship with The United Illuminating Company, an electric utility company based in New Haven, Connecticut. We are hard at work providing programming and workplace strategy services to assist in creating the right work environment to meets their needs both now and in the future.

Visit the The United Illuminating Company website

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New Year, New Promotions

We are proud to recognize these colleagues with well deserved promotions. With over 70 years combined experience at The Environments Group, these seasoned professionals have shown they have what it takes to get the job done. We look forward to many more years with them leading our teams.

Principals
Tom Kasznia
Judy Mitchell

Senior Associates
Don Pikul
Rocco Tunzi
Tim Wolfe
Rob Yennerell

See our official announcement

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SPAKL Rocks for REACH: April 24th House of Blues
Our favorite industry band will perform at the annual Real Estate Action Committee for City of Hope (REACH) to raising money for cancer treatment, research and education programs.

Visit the City of Hope website
See photos of the band in action

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Conspiracy of Love

We are inspired by this poetic quote from Hamilton Wright Mabie:

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”

We were pleased to make our holiday donation on behalf of our clients to two local organizations that place children at the top of their lists. The Chase Park Advisory Council is a private, non-profit, organization established to raise funds to renovate one of Chicago's historic North side parks, and is funded by generous donations from local businesses, residents and city and state elected officials. The plans for the renovation of the Chase Park play lot include new play equipment, landscaping, recycled rubberized ground cover and a water feature. The Children’s Interstitial Lung Disease Foundation (chILD) provides support, education, and hope to families afflicted with a pediatric interstitial lung disease.

For more information about our community involvement, visit our community section.

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Joe Connell at IIDEX NeoCon Canada

This past September, Joe Connell participated in a panel discussion about how research is integrated into the design process. The encore presentation of his successful NeoCon Chicago appearance was facilitated by University of Minnesota assistant professor Dr.Caren Martin.

USG Settles In

This March, USG Corporation relocated to their new 330,000 square foot headquarters at 550 West Adams in Chicago. The new headquarters occupies twelve floors and accommodates 800 employees. The typical office floors also include conference rooms, an employee coffee bar, file and storage rooms and print/copy stations. The conference center on the top floor acts as the main reception and conference center for the headquarters. Also on this floor is the executive area which includes offices, conference rooms, dining and kitchen. Additional shared spaces in the facility include a large employee café/presentation space, records center, mail/reproduction center and data center.

USG website
USG case study

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