Firm Information

Firm History:

The firm of Jones-Gillam originated in 1945 as Seitz-Jones, over 57 years of continued service. Russell Jones joined the firm in 1956, and John 'Jack' Gillam joined the firm in 1959. Jones-Gillam merged with Cayton-Engelhardt in 1965, forming Cayton-Jones-Engelhardt-Gillam. With Frank Cayton's death in 1975, Wayne Engelhardt's retirement and Jeff Gillam joining the firm in 1988, Jones-Gillam combines the experience, knowledge and creativity of the entire staff.

Project Team and Staffing:

One of the principals assumes full leadership and responsibility of the project and project team. This Principal in charge coordinates with client representatives, specialists, consultants and staff in all phases of the project such as: programming, design, cost estimating, production and contract administration.

Jones-Gillam emphasizes the "team concept" and therefore all three principals participate and contribute to each of the phases of the project ensuring quality service and design, prudent control of costs and the versatility and expertise of the entire staff.

Philosophy:

Our design philosophy places special importance on the "team" concept. The culmination of experience and talent from each member of the entire project team will achieve design excellence. Jones-Gillam's staff are team players creating the environment for positive results.

The "Team Concept" or team approach is not new or unique. It is however, an important ingredient to the overall success of the project. Jones-Gillam emphasize and understand that the client, owner, users, staff and all associated representatives or committees must have input into the total design process, as a team effort.

Therefore, our approach and philosophy is to work with the owner and client representatives to formulate, develop, explore, analyze and critique, each and every detail of the design and building process. This will include conferences, design studies, coast estimates, drawings, evaluations, etc. as required to completely determine and satisfy all of the client's physical and functional goals and /or needs.