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UCLA Recognition for Our President & Founder, Tom Butt FAIA
Our President and Founder, Tom Butt, attended graduate school at UCLA 1971-73, receiving a Master’s Degree in Architecture and Urban Design. Having just left the Army the previous year, he used the GI Bill to pay for it, and his wife, Shirley, worked to support them....
Interactive Resources, Inc. welcomes Michael Hannah, AIA, LEED AP
Interactive Resources, Inc. would like to announce the addition of Michael Hannah to our Architectural Division. Michael is a Licensed Architect in California and a LEED Accredited Professional with more than 16 years of experience. He has also been a Lecturer and...
When Arts Education and Architecture Intersect
It is especially rewarding when a project leads to a lasting collaboration. In 2014, Interactive Resources, Inc. provided schematic design, planning, design development and entitlements for a historic home project at 656 Quinan Street in Pinole, which involved raising...
Dumbarton Quarry Regional Recreation Area to Open in 2019, Featuring New Maintenance Facility Designed by Interactive Resources, Inc.
EBRPD New Maintenance Facility, Dumbarton Quarry, Fremont, CA In 2015, East Bay officials broke ground on a long-planned vision to turn a Fremont industrial quarry into the Bay Area’s first shoreline campground built in decades. Fast forward to 2018, as the 91-acre...
Holiday Giving
Annual gift giving to those in need has been a company holiday tradition for many years at Interactive Resources, Inc.. For the second year in recent history, we have worked with schools impacted by Northern California wildfires. This year, we donated art supplies to...
Alten Construction Office Remodel
Alten Construction recently moved into its newly renovated headquarters within the Kaiser Shipyards Historic District of Richmond's Marina Bay neighborhood. Interactive Resources, Inc. was the architect and structural engineer of record for the project, overseeing...
Play Ball! at Fitzgerald Field
Our firm has the pleasure of working on a wide range of project types: schools, pharmaceutical, industrial, judge’s chambers, forensic work, historic preservation, major solar engineering, commercial, and large mixed-use. So it wasn’t out of our ballpark to be...
Delta Diablo Plant Operations & Treatment Plant Roof Replacement, Antioch, California
Interactive Resources, Inc. is very happy to announce a recent award from the Delta Diablo (Delta Diablo Sanitation District) for the Plant Operations Center and Treatment Plant roof replacement. Delta Diablo provides water resource recovery services for the Cities of...
Applied Technology Services Facility, Common Area & Calibration Lab Remodel, Danville, California
Another successful project designed by Interactive Resources, Inc. was recently completed for a local utility company with facilities throughout Northern and Central California. The Applied Technology Services (ATS) Facility in Danville performs some of the company’s...
DGS, FMD Bay & Northern Area Architectural Retainer Services
We are happy to announce that State of California, Department of General Services (DGS), Facilities Management Division (FMD) selected Interactive Resources, Inc. to provide architectural and engineering services for the Bay and Northern California regions. The FMD...
Coping with Building Disasters & Failures
Introduction If disaster visits your building or it suffers from a major failure, will you be ready? Will recovery be quick and financially painless, or will the event be terminal? Disasters affecting buildings can come from nature or from the acts (or omissions) of...