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A convention room is a component of one among Treanor’s current initiatives, the renovation of the Topeka Metropolis Corridor, which was constructed in 1939 underneath the Works Progress Administration.

Treanor has been named the 2026 ENR Midwest Agency of the 12 months, an award primarily based on an organization’s success in development and income, innovation, assist of the AEC trade and efforts to present again to its neighborhood.

Established in 1981 in Lawrence, Kansas, the agency was based throughout an financial recession by Michael Treanor in his home as a two-person apply targeted on designing faculties, church buildings and small business initiatives. It has since grown right into a nationwide agency serving a spread of economic shoppers throughout the U.S. Treanor at the moment has 175 workers and was one among ENR’s Prime 100 Inexperienced Design Corporations in 2025.

By the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, the agency broadened its attain, opening places of work in Kansas Metropolis in 1996 and Topeka in 1999, and constructing a stronger portfolio in civic and preservation initiatives, together with work for the Kansas Statehouse. Throughout this era, it additionally expanded its give attention to public and institutional shoppers, notably in training and authorities. The agency added science and expertise design, historic preservation, inside design and civil engineering within the 2000s, together with establishing new places of work in Dallas and Atlanta and launching a healthcare apply. In 2024, it rebranded merely as Treanor, reflecting the combination of assorted legacy companies it had acquired and its evolution right into a unified, multidisciplinary apply.

A few of its Midwest initiatives embody the Douglas County Judicial & Legislation Enforcement Middle, Kansas Metropolis Proton Institute, Douglas County Therapy and Restoration Middle, Kentucky Dept. of Juvenile Justice Grasp Plan, Pi Beat Phi Sorority on the College of Missouri, and the Topeka Municipal Juvenile Justice Middle.

Treanor workers devoted greater than 1,400 volunteer hours in 2025 to assist meals safety, training, well being, and native initiatives within the communities the place they work. Treanor promotes structure as a socially impactful profession, pays for its designers to obtain crucial licensures and creates a promotion pipeline that has allowed many interns to maneuver into full-time workers positions.

Treanor’s 2025 income was $47.1 million. To search out out the place the agency ranks on the 2026 ENR MidWest Prime Design Agency rankings testing the Could challenge of ENR Midwest.