Downtown street canyon with tower cranes over buildings under construction

Architecture and
engineering for
commercial and
industrial building

Four disciplines, one roof

Structure, systems and skin. Engineered as one.

Architecture, structural, MEP and design-build in one firm, on one model, with one set of drawings.

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22+Years in practice
640+Buildings delivered

Chicago and Denver offices, working across 14 states.

Stacked rectangular tower volumes clad in vertical fins against a teal skyEvery building starts as a block
18.4M[sf]Square feet engineered
04[in house]Disciplines
23[active]Projects on site
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More about QUBIK

Most buildings are designed by one firm and engineered by three. We do it at one table.

The people who calculate the building also draw it, and they stay with it until the certificate of occupancy is on the wall.

86[people]
Engineers and architects
02[offices]
Chicago and Denver
01[model]
Per project, shared by every discipline
00[hand-offs]
From first sketch to closeout

Disciplines

( 04 )
Two designers marking up plans on a light table
A-series01 / 04

Architecture

Plans, envelopes and code strategy built around how the building gets used, then tested against how it gets built.

Bolted steel moment connection seen through glass
S-series02 / 04

Structural

Steel, concrete, tilt-up and precast, sized for the loads you have today and the equipment you add later.

Engineer marking up an electrical single-line diagram
M / E / P03 / 04

MEP

Mechanical, electrical and plumbing designed alongside the structure, not threaded through it afterward.

Engineer in a hard hat walking a process floor
DB04 / 04

Design-build

One contract from concept to closeout, with the engineers still on the job when the steel goes up.

From block
to building

How a project moves
01Step

Mass

Site, zoning, program and budget resolved into one block before design starts.

02Step

Frame

Grid, spans and structural system set early, so every later decision has something to stand on.

03Step

Systems

Mechanical, electrical and plumbing routed in the same model as the steel.

04Step

Build

Permit sets, construction administration and closeout, with no hand-off between teams.

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Phone(312) 555-0148
Emailprojects@qubik-ae.com
ChicagoFulton Market
DenverRiver North Art District