SmithGroup Tech Stack
Integrated design firm spanning architecture, engineering, and planning disciplines
SmithGroup is a 1,600-person design firm operating across architecture, engineering, planning, and specialized disciplines like lighting design and historic preservation. The tech stack is heavily weighted toward design authoring tools (Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, CAD suite) with enterprise resource planning (Deltek Vantage, Dynamics 365) and project management infrastructure—a profile consistent with multi-disciplinary AEC firms managing complex, long-cycle client engagements. Current hiring momentum shows deceleration (15 roles posted in the last 30 days across 101 active openings), with senior designers representing the largest cohort, suggesting a firm managing established service delivery rather than scaling new capability.
Tech Stack 22 technologies
What SmithGroup Is Building
◆Challenges
- Challenging electrical power distribution
- Economic viability of emerging climate technologies
- Improving modeling efficiency
- Power distribution for data centers
- Meeting budget criteria
- Maintaining project schedules
- Long-term healthcare facility needs analysis
- Evaluating cost, carbon, resilience trade-offs
- Long-term resilience of emerging climate technologies
- Enhancing sustainability service delivery
▲Active Projects
- Programming efforts
- Early phase client strategy engagements
- Data center electrical systems design
- Design strategy brief development
- Programming and space requirement reports
- Sustainable design initiatives
- Pilot projects evaluating emerging climate technologies
- Tool development for modeling efficiency
- Regional hr plans
- Project work plan and staffing requirements
