Toyota North American Program
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc.
SSOE didn’t just design Toyota’s plants. They future-proofed them, saving $117 million along the way.
Toyota has utilized SSOE as their preferred A/E partner since 1999—a relationship now spanning 28 years and more than 700 completed projects both big and small across each of the North America Manufacturing and R&D locations. SSOE’s teams have consistently designed facilities for Toyota that could be constructed for less than the competition, regularly designing much closer to the actual service factor. The firm has documented more than $117 million in savings returned to Toyota, representing 240% of its design fee in value delivered back to the client.
That track record is what led Toyota to select SSOE for the design of major expansions and greenfield facilities across the U.S., including doubling the size of their assembly plant in Princeton, Indiana; the greenfield truck assembly plant on a 2,000-acre site in San Antonio, Texas; and the master planning and design of the assembly plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi. In each case, SSOE provided on-site engineering staff to Toyota’s Owner’s Representative Office to support construction and coordinate design documents during construction phases.
More recently, SSOE served as the architecture and engineering partner for Toyota’s battery manufacturing campus in Liberty, North Carolina, a facility with more than 40 football fields under one roof requiring multi-building sequencing, campus-wide utility infrastructure, and safety and circulation systems engineered from the ground up.
Today, SSOE’s structural engineering team is actively evaluating and reinforcing Toyota’s existing assembly plants in Indiana and Kentucky to ensure they can support the heavier loads associated with next-generation electric vehicle production.
Using innovative tools and efficient processes, the team has consistently met project needs. These efforts help prepare existing facilities for future production requirements while positioning SSOE to support Toyota’s evolving manufacturing needs across North America.
Next up: Toyota’s San Antonio plant, where a 2.5-million-SF expansion announced in 2026, signals the next wave of investment SSOE is prepared to support.
