Top 5
Design Firm
With 75-years serving the automotive market, our team has been onAutomotive
the forefront of the transition to electric vehicles.
Put simply, there is no other choice when it comes to automotive facility design. We are the firm of choice for the world’s most successful and innovative automotive manufacturers. Our performance speaks for itself, and historically our design pays for itself—literally—returning hundreds of millions of dollars to our clients in the form of cost savings.
At SSOE, we don’t just see the future—we help create it. We’ve worked with startups as well as the world’s largest and most innovative automotive and battery manufacturing companies to retrofit facilities for EV production, design and construct greenfield EV plants, and to support the battery manufacturing process at every point in the supply chain.
A Top 5 Automotive Plant Design Firm for the past 3 years (ENR)
25M SF
Electric Vehicle Facilities
SSOE has completed over 25 million SF of electric vehicle facilities to date
3,900+
Automotive Projects
3,900+ automotive projects executed in the last 25 years
$560M
Cost Savings
SSOE has documented more than $560M in savings for automotive clients over the past decade
27
Automotive Plants
We’ve designed 27 automotive plants in the last 25 years
Featured Projects
Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center
Ford Motor Company
Battery Cell Production Facility
Toyota Battery Manufacturing
Assembly Expansion Program
Toyota Motor Manufacturing
Greenfield EV Facility Design
Confidential Automotive Client
EPCM Services for Greenfield Plant of the Future
Continental AG
1.9 Million SF Automotive Assembly Plant in Mexico
Nissan Motor Company
New EV Facility Master Planning & Phase 1 Design
Nikola Corporation
Greenfield Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Facility
Confidential Automotive Manufacturing Client
Automotive Vehicle Electrification Program
General Motors
Greenfield Advanced Manufacturing Facility
GEDIA Automotive Group
GM China Advanced Technical Center
General Motors (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
Toyota North American Program
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc.
Greenfield Transmission Plant
ZF Friedrichshafen AG
$1 Billion Chattanooga Automotive Production Facility
Volkswagen AG
Client List
OEMs
Tier Suppliers
- BMW Group
- Caterpillar
- FCA Group
- Daimler
- Ford
- General Motors
- Honda
- Hyundai / Kia
- Kenworth
- Lucid Motors
- Nikola
- Nissan
- Paccar
- Toyota
- Volkswagen
- American Axle Manufacturing
- Ascend Elements
- Bocar
- Bosch
- Bridgestone / Firestone
- Continental Tire
- Cummins
- Dana
- Detroit Diesel
- Durr Systems
- Gallagher-Kaiser
- Gedia Automotive Group
- Guardian Industries
- Kore Power
- Magna International
- Panasonic Energy
- TKS Automotive
- TRW Automotive
- ZF Friedrichshafen AG
Project Types
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
- Body / Weld
- Die casting
- Final trim / assembly
- Foundry
- Frame / Chassis
- Machining
- Heat treatment
- Mist collection
- Scrap handling
- Paint shops
- Plastics injection molding
- Press / Stamping
- Subassembly
- Scrap handling
- Frame / Chassis
- Engine
- Transmission
Support Facilities
R&D and Testing
Architecturally Driven Solutions for Automotive Clients
In addition to our industrial solutions for the automotive market, SSOE is at the forefront of designing for an evolving workplace. Our passion for design creatively integrates your brand identity into your built environment, enhancing the experience for employees and visitors alike. We recognize your facilities are the messengers for all that your brand stands for, whether it’s your office building, R&D facilities, employee training areas, and workforce development spaces. SSOE’s acquisition of Stevens & Wilkinson, an award-winning architecture and interior design firm, elevates your facility into a strategic advantage. Take another look here.
Technical Specialties
- Air permitting
- Arc flash studies
- Battery hazards
- BIM
- Central plant utilities
- Cleanrooms
- Design studios
- Data systems
- Facility conversions for electric vehicles
- Factory automation
- Fire protection and alarm
- Interior and landscape design
- Laser scanning
- LEED certifications
- On-site owner’s representative
- Pipe stress analysis
- Plant and infrastructure design
- Rail spurs
- Renewable energy feasibility studies
- Security systems
- Sequencing centers
- Site evaluation and planning
- Stress analysis
- Tank farms
- Wastewater treatment
