Sherman Carter Barnhart re-envisions University of Kentucky’s White Hall Classroom Building
University of Kentucky engages Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects with SmithGroup to transform White Hall Classroom Building, an iconic campus site.
SCB celebrates one year in new headquarters
As Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects proudly celebrates its one-year anniversary in our new building, we reflect on a transformative journey marked by innovation, collaboration, and community engagement. Since transitioning into our meticulously designed 11,000-square-foot office, nestled within the vibrant landscape of The Commons near downtown Lexington, our team of 52 employees has embraced a […]
Sherman Carter Barnhart helping to bring affordable housing, hope back to Dawson Springs
With their experience of working with multiple funding sources and familiarity in navigating federal programs, Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects is working with Dawson Springs to deliver a modern, affordable housing community with market-rate amenities.
ICF MAGAZINE HIGHLIGHTS THREE SCB SCHOOLS
Three Sherman Carter Barnhart -designed schools — South Green Elementary School, Cumberland Trace Elementary
School, and Rich Pond Elementary School — are featured in this month’s ICF Builder Magazine.
Gov. Beshear Breaks Ground on Bowling Green Veterans Center
Sherman Carter Barnhart is proud to be designing this great facility for veterans. Following is a press release from the Governor’s Office describing the Bowing Green Veteran’s Center. For more on progress as the project moves along, be sure to follow our blog and social media.
Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects Opens Office in Nashville Area
Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects Opens Office in Nashville Area NASHVILLE – Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, a regional firm focused on the design of K-12 schools, universities, affordable housing and civic and judicial centers, is deepening its presence in Tennessee. The firm is pleased to announce the official and immediate opening of its Nashville-area office, which […]
Louisville Business First Highlights Meriwether STEAM Academic Center
Previous Next Louisville Business First Highlights The Meriwether STEAM Academic Center Louisville Business First Magazine this week highlighted The Meriwether STEAM Academic Center, a Sherman Carter Barnhart-designed project that is the central hub for interdisciplinary learning on Kentucky Country Day’s 80-plus acre campus. Kentucky Country Day School will build two additions to the main building on […]
National Architect Magazine Highlights Sherman Carter Barnhart
Slide 35 in a PowerPoint presentation from Sherman Carter Barnhart’s Kenny Stanfield shows the dramatic financial benefits for schools designed with 21st Century Energy and Design principles. When writers at Architect Magazine looked to highlight an architect who has led the way nationally in designing zero energy schools, editors pointed them to Sherman Carter Barnhart […]
Is a Public-Private Partnership Right for You?
Is a Public-Private Partnership right for your project? Public-Private Partnership (P3) models can provide communities with alternatives for financing, designing, constructing and even operating and maintaining public buildings and affordable housing. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to P3 projects; they can vary as widely as the developments themselves. But in many cases a creative P3 […]
Kevin Matthews Loves What He Does Even More Than When He Started in 1985
Since 1985, Kevin Matthews has helped clients navigate the ever-changing landscape of affordable housing. So when it comes to affordable housing, he has seen it all. When he started in the mid-80s, Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects had been hired to transition Lexington, Kentucky, from the barracks-style public housing of the era to modern, private developer […]
Brandon Ward Finds No Two Days are the Same in Affordable Housing Design
Brandon Ward, an associate principal at Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, focuses exclusively on affordable housing and has been part of the firm’s team since 2005. Over the past 18 years, he has worked extensively with housing authorities in East St. Louis; St. Louis; Lexington, Louisville, and Paducah in Kentucky; Spartanburg in South Carolina and New […]
Louisville Business First magazine highlights Beecher Terrace development
Louisville’s Business First magazine recently highlighted the completion of two phases of the Beecher Terrace development — a public-private partnership between Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects and Mcormick McCormack Baron Salazar, the developer. The Beecher Terrace redevelopment will offer more than 600 mixed-income units across one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. The complex will offer rental units […]
In Affordable Housing, Our 36 Years of Experience Make a Difference
Affordable Housing has come a long way in the last 36 years, and so has Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects. When the Lexington Housing Authority hired Sherman Carter Barnhart in the mid-80s, they were looking to change the face and stigma of the typical public housing authority look of barracks — long, two-story, rectangular buildings with […]
Student Housing & Community Colleges
While housing is not typically provided at community colleges, there is a growing awareness that addressing the needs of housing-insecure students may be crucial to the institutional mission. Public-private partnership (P3) development for student housing may be uniquely positioned to provide student housing facilities on, or near, community college campuses. Financed, designed, constructed, and maintained […]
Student housing for community colleges may be an idea whose time has come.
Food and housing insecurity, transportation problems, and daycare support are all part of the daily struggle faced by many community college students. Factor in severely reduced capital budgets and the Covid pandemic and we have some very tough times with limited resources for developing solutions. Currently, less than a third of community colleges provide some […]
Sherman Carter Barnhart Features Prominently in New Zero Energy Magazine
– Great news! The National Buildings Institute’s Zero Buildings List magazine features four Sherman Carter Barnhart Projects and highlights one of our zero energy schools on the cover: Jennings Creek Elementary, which is part of Warren County schools. The magazine’s list is compiled to track the status of zero energy projects in the region and […]
The bids prove it: It’s a good time to build schools
Unprecedented times like these might leave school board members and superintendents thinking it will be too expensive to design and build the schools their districts need. Sherman Carter Barnhart’s most recent projects shatter that notion. Rich Pond Elementary School, Warren County’s newest elementary school, broke ground Sept. 28 after bidding well under Sherman Carter Barnhart’s […]
A Survey: The Future of Student Housing
We’ve developed a short, to the point student housing survey to get your input on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting your institution’s student housing. This is an evolving subject and a moving target, but clearly certain issues, concerns, problems, and potential solutions are beginning to become clear. We also know that the effect of COVID-19 […]
Finding The Best Way Forward: The Future of Student Housing
What follows are some thoughts gleaned from our ongoing reading, researching & observations. BROAD OBSERVATIONs In part from recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed: Plans for Fall 2020: 73% of early reporting institutions plan to re-open with in-person classes; 15% are waiting to decide what to do; 5% are […]
Sherman Carter Barnhart Project Wins National Award for Zero Energy, ICF School Design
Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects received a national award this month for its zero energy design of Jennings Creek Elementary in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The award, 1st Runner-Up in the 2020 Heavy Commercial Category, was highlighted along with a profile in the May issue of Insulating Concrete Forms Magazine. The article also highlighted Richardsville Elementary, […]
Zero Energy Schools: A webinar with Kenny Stanfield
Sherman Carter Barnhart’s Kenny Stanfield, Principal, AIA, LEED AP, spoke recently about designing Zero Energy Schools with Insulated Concrete Forms, and we’re pleased to share the presentation with you. Below is a slideshow of Kenny’s presentation. You can also log in on the National Ready Mix Concrete Association’s site and listen to the audio that […]
Kenny Stanfield to Speak About 21st Century Education & Energy Design at KSBA Conference
Session Title: 21E School Design – 21st Century Education and Energy Event: Kentucky School Boards Association Conference at the Galt House in Louisville Time: 3:30 p.m. Saturday Speakers: Kerry Young, Warren County Public Schools Board Chair, and Kenny Stanfield, Principal, AIA, LEED AP, at Sherman Carter Barnhart A/S Level II required topic: School Facilities* (or […]
Jennifer Cash to Join Panel on How to Save Money on School Construction so it Can Be Invested in Teachers and Resources
Session Title: Facilities – How can building save you money to invest elsewhere? Event: Kentucky School Boards Association Conference at the Galt House in Louisville Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday Speakers: Christopher C. McIntyre, CFO/treasurer, Warren County Schools; Jennifer Cash, AIA, Associate Principal at Sherman Carter Barnhart; and Chad Riggs, project manager at CMTA A/S Level […]
Press Release: Kenny Stanfield to Speak at Yale and in Miss., S.C., and Kentucky about Zero Energy School Design and Insulated Concrete Forms
Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart’s Kenny Stanfield, AIA, LEED AP, will be speaking about the benefits of sustainable Zero Energy school design and Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) starting this week at conferences at Yale University and in Mississippi, South Carolina and Kentucky. At each of the conferences, Stanfield, a national expert in Zero Energy Schools […]
Press Release: Sherman Carter Barnhart Announces Promotion of Brandon Ward to Associate Principal
Promotion Announcement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2020 Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, a leading regional architecture firm with offices in Lexington, Louisville and Paducah, announced today the promotion of Brandon Ward to Associate Principal in the firm. “Quietly confident, Brandon leads by example. He has used his project management and client management skills to […]
Press Release: Sherman Carter Barnhart Announces Promotion of Tony Pham to Associate Principal
Promotion Announcement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2020 Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, a leading regional architecture firm with offices in Lexington, Louisville and Paducah, announced today the promotion of Tony Pham, director of Construction Administration, to Associate Principal in the firm. “Tony’s ‘firm but fair’ approach has earned him the respect of contractors, […]
Press Release: Sherman Carter Barnhart Announces Promotion of One to Principal, Seven to Associate Principal
Promotions Announcement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2020 Newby Walters Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects 859-224-1351 nwalters@scbarchitects.com Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, a leading regional architecture firm with offices in Lexington, Louisville and Paducah, announced today the promotion of Kevin Matthews to Principal and seven other professionals to Associate Principal. “These talented and valued members […]
Press Release: Sherman Carter Barnhart Announces Promotion of Andrew Owens to Associate Principal
Promotion Announcement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2020 Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, a leading regional architecture firm with offices in Lexington, Louisville and Paducah, announced today the promotion of Andrew Owens, AIA, CID to Associate Principal in the firm. “Andrew has an innate ability to communicate and connect with clients on a personal […]
Press Release: Sherman Carter Barnhart Announces Promotion of Susan Mooney to Associate Principal
Promotion Announcement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2020 Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, a leading regional architecture firm with offices in Lexington, Louisville and Paducah, announced today the promotion of Susan Mooney, Director of Finance, to Associate Principal in the firm. “’Analytic’, ‘independent,’ and ‘fiercely loyal’ are character traits that describe Susan,” said Mike […]
Press Release: Sherman Carter Barnhart Announces Promotion of Kevin Matthews to Principal
Promotion Announcement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2020 Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, a leading regional architecture firm with offices in Lexington, Louisville and Paducah, announced today the promotion of Kevin Matthews to Principal in the firm. Matthews, a 35-year veteran of Sherman Carter Barnhart and director of its Affordable Housing Studio, has been […]
Press Release: Sherman Carter Barnhart Announces Promotion of Allison Commings to Associate Principal
Promotion Announcement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2020 Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, a leading regional architecture firm with offices in Lexington, Louisville and Paducah, announced today the promotion of Allison Commings, AIA, CID, LEED AP, to Associate Principal in the firm. “Allison’s work ethic, integrity, and professionalism continue to define her career with […]
Press Release: Sherman Carter Barnhart Announces Promotion of Jennifer Cash to Associate Principal
Promotion Announcement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2020 Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, a leading regional architecture firm with offices in Lexington, Louisville and Paducah, announced today the promotion of Jennifer Cash, AIA, to Associate Principal in the firm. Cash is a project manager and in the firm’s Education Studio and has managed projects […]
We Are What’s Wildly Possible
Wildly Possible. To Sherman Carter Barnhart, that meant designing an expansion to Parking Structure No. 5 that offered much more than parking. The Winslow project enlivens an important, growing part of campus with an innovative education area, retail shops and restaurants and what we think will be a “wildly” popular eSports space. […]
ICF Magazine Highlights Kenny Stanfield and Sherman Carter Barnhart Designs
This month’s Insulating Concrete Forms Builder magazine highlighted Sherman Carter Barnhart’s Kenny Stanfield, AIA and two Kentucky elementary schools he designed using ICF and Zero Energy design principles. The article focuses on Alvaton and Richardsville elementary schools in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and the process that led to their innovative designs. The article also highlights the […]
Greenwood High School Breaks Ground on New Auxiliary Gymnasium
There’s nothing quite like seeing a project get “off the ground.” We’re thrilled to have designed the Greenwood High School auxiliary gym project, and we’ll be even more thrilled to see students enjoying it. Sherman Carter Barnhart’s Jennifer Cash, AIA, the project manager for the gymnasium and Principal Kenny Stanfield, were on hand for […]
Architect John Whitney, AIA, joins Sherman Carter Barnhart
John is a registered architect with over 30 years’ experience in all aspects of project development, design, management, master planning, and construction. Sherman Carter Barnhart had the pleasure of working with John when he served as the University Architect for Morehead State University. Working collaboratively with John we successfully completed the first new residence hall […]
VisitJessamine.com Bowl
Sherman Carter Barnhart helped kick off the 2019 football season last night at East Jessamine High School as the trophy sponsor for the VisitJessamine.com Bowl. Principal Justin McElfresh was there to congratulate the teams. Good luck to all student-athletes from across Kentucky this fall and to those at Jessamine County Schools! We are proud to […]
Corbin Elementary Starts First Day In Renovated School
The traditional building was the first school in Corbin Schools and is still the oldest today, so it was important to both the community and the District to re-purpose the building and maintain its strong presence in downtown Corbin. Corbin Elementary Principal Chris Webb says the project was several years in the making. “I never […]
Winds of Change
As we continue to research, gather pertinent data, and clarify our previous storm shelter requirements with the State Agencies of HBC and KDE, we wanted to provide a follow-up to “The Coming Storm” article. Specifically, we wanted to provide an example of how a recently completed school design could be modified to meet the storm shelter requirements and […]
The Kentucky Building Code, and The Coming Storm
When it comes to severe weather in the Southeast, we anticipate with trepidation the seasonal storms and with them the threat of tornadoes. Unpredictable and potentially devastating, direct strikes from tornadoes can demolish even the seemingly strongest of buildings, including our schools. Recent tornadic storms in Alabama, North Carolina, Missouri, and Kentucky devastated towns and […]
Board Reviews New Lone Oak Middle School, Garage Plans
On Monday, September 10th, Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects brought proposed designs of the new Lone Oak Middle School to the McCracken County School District board and discussed plans for the school district’s bus garage. Working with the district selected design team of current and previous Lone Oak Middle School (LOMS) instructors and department heads, a workshop was held […]
Living Building Chronicle
Sixty-seven of them have now been “verified” in the U.S. and Canada, according to a recent report from the New Buildings Institute. Another 415 are underway or are being evaluated for net-zero performance, according to the report, the 2018 Getting to Zero Status Update. Fifteen months ago, NBI reported 53 buildings as verified, while 279 […]
University of Louisville’s campus evolution ‘has sparked a lot of pride’
Lots of big changes at the University of Louisville this semester! We’re thrilled to have been part of one of them: the major renovation of the Student Activities Center (SAC). From the Louisville Courier Journal: University of Louisville alumnus Kelly Hodges remembers the day the Student Activities Center opened in 1990 and changed the commuter-centric campus forever. The opening helped spur a transformation […]
Jennings Creek Elementary Opens
When Jennings Creek Elementary School opens its doors Wednesday, students will enter the district’s second energy-independent school and the first in the state to integrate computer coding from kindergarten through sixth grade, district officials said. At a ribbon-cutting and open house Sunday, Jennings Creek Principal Jamie Woosley also promoted the school’s new reading and […]
Meade County College & Career Center
“The Meade County College & Career Center will be one of the most state-of-the-art, comprehensive vocational technology schools in the state of Kentucky. It will blend state vocational programs with the technology in advancing students. Nowhere do we have this kind of collaboration and the partnerships that are so critical.” – Dr. John Millay, Superintendent […]
KYs Next Net Zero School Opens August 5th
Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects celebrates with Warren County Schools and the entire community the opening of a 21st Century elementary school designed to educate students well into the future. What everyone will notice are the dynamic learning spaces designed to provide integrated and collaborative learning. Whether it be the monumental collaboration stair, maker spaces in […]
Can Intentional Student Housing Design Lead to Better Learning and a Sense of Community on Campus?
Living Learning Communities Studies show that informal settings are better for college-level learning than the traditional academic setting alone. The live-and-learn community model fosters higher levels of academic engagement and success and enhances the undergraduate experience, aiding in recruitment and retention. Fostering Privacy and Community Privacy is becoming a highly sought after amenity, with the […]
Bigger and Better Student Center to Open This Fall at Morehead
[metaslider id=4872] Since Aug. 26, 2016, the Adron Doran University Center (ADUC) has been bustling almost daily with noise, foot traffic and activity – but that hasn’t been coming from students. Nearly two years ago, MSU broke ground on a $49.5 million project to renovate and expand the facility. Now that construction is nearing completion, […]
