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The Nathan Deal Judicial Center in Atlanta offers a case study in how interior design can guide, reassure, and bring order to an otherwise daunting experience.

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The Nathan Deal Judicial Center in Atlanta offers a case study in how interior design can guide, reassure, and bring order to an otherwise daunting experience.
While every jurisdiction is different, the operational challenges facing judicial facilities are often shared. The State of Georgia’s Nathan Deal Judicial Center in downtown Atlanta offers one example of how interior planning can bring clarity to complexity.
SSOE Group, a global engineering and architecture firm headquartered in Toledo, announced today CEO Vince DiPofi, PE, will serve as keynote speaker at the 2025-2026 National Amplify Allyship Tour, which makes a stop in Toledo later this month. This marks...
Continue Reading →SSOE Group announced today that two of its education and workforce development subject matter experts—Adriane McGillis, AIA, NCARB and Tim Swartz, AIA, NCARB—will speak, sponsor, and exhibit at the SC Tri‑Association of Facility Managers Conference, taking place March 8–11, 2026,...
Continue Reading →SSOE Group is set to host a dozen students from Whitmer and Port Clinton high schools on Tuesday, February 24, as part of the nationwide Engineers Week.
Vince DiPofi, PE, CEO of SSOE Group is leading the charge as the 2026 American Heart Association Heart Walk Chair. In this voluntary role, DiPofi aims to build a community of lifesavers starting in Toledo, where SSOE maintains its world...
Continue Reading →SSOE Group is expanding its partnership with Toledo Technology Academy (TTA), creating an applied learning experience that connects emerging technical talent directly to the demands of contemporary engineering and design work.
SSOE Group announced today two of its workforce development subject matter experts will participate in a panel discussion at the South Carolina Technical Education Association (SCTEA) Conference.
SSOE Group has been designated a 2025 Healthy Worksite by the Healthy Business Council of Ohio (HBCO), earning the program’s Platinum designation, its highest level of recognition.
SSOE recently announced several key leadership positions, including the election of new members to its Board of Directors, the appointment of a new principal owner, and a series of other significant promotions for planning year 2026.

Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) is SSOE’s enterprise-wide project delivery platform. We partner with the Autodesk Product team and have research access. Use of the AI Assistant allows our design teams, owners, and general contractors the ability to query the project specifications for quality, answers, and more rapid responses to RFIs, submittals, or issues.
SSOE has developed a proof-of-concept to use an AI Agent to act as a Master Engineer and Architect trained in SSOE’s processes, best-known-methods, and trainings. Our data structure is being remodeled to enable better use of our proprietary knowledge to train the agent on the ‘SSOE way’.
SSOE is actively piloting AI Chat large language models (LLMs) or copilots that use Natural Language Processing (NLP) to streamline both design and development tasks, transforming how our teams interact with software and each other.
By integrating chat LLM engines into platforms like Revit, we’re enabling users to prompt complex actions using simple, conversational commands. In Revit, this means automating tasks such as modeling elements, cleaning up parameter data, managing annotations and dimensions, and organizing sheets—without writing scripts. These automations and quality prompts can be shared across project teams, accelerating workflows and reducing manual effort.
Similarly, our internal Software Development Community is leveraging GitHub Copilot to expedite coding tasks. Developers can generate and refine code using NLP prompts, tapping into GitHub’s extensive Repo to move faster from concept to implementation.
Together, these tools represent a shift from traditional, expert-driven scripting to intuitive, AI-assisted automation, unlocking new levels of efficiency and scalability across our projects.
We helped our client visualize and optimize façade design for occupant comfort—long before breaking ground through the use of the Autodesk Forma tool. It allows the designer to rapidly experiment with the building’s geometry and façade design to promote sustainability, prioritizing quality of spaces and comfort for end uses, especially in extreme climates (daylighting and microclimate analysis tools) at the project’s exact geographic location, using location-specific environmental data.
Discover how SSOE is using Autodesk Forma to improve sustainability outcomes for industrial projects: SSOE Group: Improving sustainability outcomes for industrial projects with Autodesk Forma.
SSOE is utilizing Microsoft Copilot Edge and M365 to significantly enhance work efficiency and accuracy across various departments. Copilot is accessible to all staff after training. Key areas of application include using it as a writing assistant, for idea generation, document summarization and generation, research assistant, excel assistant, programming code assistant, language translations, product comparison and data analysis. Use of Copilot has become part of the everyday life of SSOE employees who have identified key ways it can help them become more efficient with their daily tasks as well as more accurate in their deliverables.
Today, 100% of SSOE employees have taken the voluntary training and have access to Copilot Edge, achieving early our October 1, 2025 goal.
We found ourselves in need of a more robust tool to enhance resource forecasting and staff assignment capabilities. Instead of waiting for the perfect tool, we’re building it. SSOE’s in-house technology team has developed and piloted a tool that aims to forecast optimal staff mix and duration for new projects against existing workload to better understand capacity and manage resources efficiently. Additionally, the tool will allow teams to identify gaps to optimal staff mix.