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Building Communities Goodwyn Mills Cawood (GMC) is one of the largest architecture and engineering firms in the Southeast, with offices located throughout Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Whether designing schools, parks, hospitals and other commercial developments, or providing clean water, safe streets and restoring resilient environments, GMC takes great pride in serving our communities through the transformative work we do. Every project is guided by the foundational concept that communities are built by people, not companies, and we strive to serve our communities with quality, integrity, creativity and care. One of the Southeast’s most comprehensive multi-disciplined firms, GMC is equipped to provide all the services associated with architecture; interior design; civil engineering; environmental services; landscape architecture; planning; transportation engineering; geotechnical engineering; mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering; coastal engineering; surveying; and disaster recovery.
Office Locations Alabama
Andalusia Auburn Birmingham Daphne Dothan Eufaula Huntsville Mobile Mobile (USA Campus) Montgomery Vernon Florida Lutz Orlando Pensacola Sarasota Tampa Georgia Atlanta Augusta Brunswick Cartersville Savannah
Kentucky Williamsburg Louisiana New Orleans North Carolina Charlotte South Carolina Charleston Columbia Greenville Rock Hill Tennessee Brentwood Nashville
Firm Overview & Awards
75+
Years of Business
12
Disciplines
14
7
op Architecture Firm T 2025 ENR Texas and Southeast
30
700+
Current Offices in Southeast
Top Design Firms in the Southeast 2024 ENR Southeast
Professionals
18
op A/E Firms 2025 T Building Design + Construction Giants 400 Report
+$2B
Designed Annually
39
op 300 Architecture T Firms 2025 Architectural Record
2024 ENR Southeast Design Firm of the Year
4 Education Top Design Firms 2024 9 Top Sports Facility Architecture and AE Firms 2025 14 Top Design Firms 2024 25 Top University Architecture and AE Firms 2025 ENR Southeast
Building Design + Construction Giants 400 Report 2025
ENR Southeast
Building Design + Construction Giants 400
46 Top Outpatient Facilities Architecture & AE Firms 2025 71 Top MOBs & Dental Offices AE Firms 2025 73 Top Healthcare Architecture and AE Firms 2025 74 Top Hospital Facility Architecture & AE Firms 2025 Building Design + Construction Giants 400
Building Design + Construction Giants 400
Building Design + Construction Giants 400
Building Design + Construction Giants 400
Menu of Services
ARCHITECTURE
INTERIOR DESIGN
ENGINEERING
ENVIRONMENTAL
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
DISASTER RECOVERY
GIS
PLANNING
GEOTECHNICAL
MEP
TRANSPORTATION
SURVEY
Our Comprehensive Approach By having multiple disciplines under one roof, we are able to streamline communication, improve efficiency and enhance the quality of service to our clients. GMC’s integrated team provides a depth of expertise that allows us to capture the “big picture” and understand the details a project entails. Utilizing our comprehensive approach, we look at each project from many vantage points to identify creative solutions.
Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport (GKT)
Infrastructure Airports provide significant economic impact for any community. We understand the importance of protecting this asset by focusing on solid infrastructure that promotes safe surface movement and airfield logistics. We use our knowledge and experience to determine the appropriate schedule for maintaining pavements, designing appropriate pavement structure, implementing phased construction to minimize downtime and maneuvering all steps for our clients.
Lanett, Alabama
Lanett Regional Aiport 7A3
Greenville, Lanett, Alabama South Carolina
SCTAC Greenville Lanett Regional Aiport 7A3
Montgomery, Alabama
MGM Regional
Aviation Planning Great planning creates great airports. Aviation Planning is a critical component of the development, operation, maintenance, and public support of an airport. In today’s ever-changing aviation landscapes, you need aviation planning specialists who understand the complete picture; who are adept at everything from master planning, to compliance, to public involvement; who can navigate tough regulatory landscapes as well as an airport’s own unique considerations. Aviation planning has implications on revenue and expenses, and can impact air carriers, tenants, vendors, and the community at-large. From concept to delivery, GMC’s holistic perspective assists our clients to move each planning project through a comprehensive and inclusive process resulting in a strategic set of dynamic objectives and the resources needed to achieve them.
Sparta, Kentucky
New Gallatin County Airport
Auburn, Alabama
Auburn University Regional Airport (AUO)
Terminals First impressions are important when your economic prospects or commercial and general aviation guests arrive at your airport. GMC has designed several functional and efficient terminal buildings from prototypes to unique design facilities across the Southeast. Our interior team specializes in design build out including concessions and other unique needs for clients.
“After selecting GMC as our consultant, we have experienced exemplary project design, delivery, and oversight. GMC is not only our consultant, but a trusted advocate for our airport. As an Airport Manager, they make my job easier by keeping me informed in all aspects of the project, and keeping the project as minimally impactful to our operations as possible. ” — Adam Foutz, Airport Manager, Former Pryor Field Airport Authority in Decatur, Alabama
Hangars Hangars are an airport’s economic heart. They shelter aircraft, allow people to maintain them out of the weather and provide income from long term leases. GMC has extensive hangar design experience from general aviation “T” hangars to business and large industrial and military hangars.
Birmingham, Alabama
Region’s Bank Corporate Hanger Birmingham
Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery Regional Airport MGM
Environmental GMC provides comprehensive professional airport environmental services, including environmental assessments, wildlife hazard assessments, wildlife hazard management plans, wetlands delineations, environmental permitting and more. Our dedicated team of environmental experts examines the potential direct, indirect and cumulative effects on the environment, including social, cultural, and economic and natural resources for any airport project. GMC has maintained sound working relationships with the FAA, FEMA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other state agencies to accomplish these tasks as efficiently as possible.
Middle Georgia Regional - Macon, Georgia
Electrical Electrical projects are an integral part of any airfield safety and landing system. These projects can range from edge lighting, guidance signage, NAVAIDS, equipment shelters, lighted wind cones and many others with electrical components. GMC has designed and installed a variety of instrument systems and other related NAVAIDS such as Automated Weather Observation Systems (AWOS) and Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) at airports across the region.
Clarksville, Tennessee
Clarksville Regional Airport (CKY)
Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery Regional Airport MGM
Construction Services One of the keys of a project’s success is the construction process. GMC believes that the process of construction administration, testing, inspection and survey is best handled in a highly communicative team atmosphere. This team spirit unites the design team with the construction team with a shared goal of success. Our team approaches every project with the intention to work with our airports, contractors and construction managers towards successful project completion on time and on budget.
National Defense GMC is committed to providing airport planning and design services to help our military aircrews receive the best training possible. Our defense design experience includes U.S. Air Force base runways & taxiways, Air National Guard high speed jet arresting gear installations, U.S. Army instrument landing systems and U.S. Coast Guard hangars.
Our track record of work with more than 100+ aviation systems speaks to our ability to deliver quality services and fulfill our clients’ needs.
Montgomery, Alabama
Maxwell Air Force Base (View From Inside C-130)
Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport GKT
Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport GKT
Our Mission To create opportunities for our people and the people we serve to build communities that thrive.
GMC Culture GMC was founded on a commitment to community service and ethical principles, and we strive to maintain these values and extend our community presence beyond our role as a leader in the architecture and engineering industry. We place significant emphasis on involvement within our communities, not only to give back, but also to gain a true understanding of the community’s needs. GMC is involved in numerous civic and community organizations, on both the corporate level and through the individuals that make up our firm. Whether it’s through GMC’s Annual Building Communities Day of Service, supporting local community events, or doing the work we do every day, our goal is betterment of the communities in which we live and work.
We believe in community, collaboration and using the power of creativity and hard work to make a difference - in our hearts, homes, city, nation and world. We believe in hope, progress, beauty, and big ideas. We believe that people like us, need us. We are not just an engineering firm. We are not just architects. We are artists, designers, thinkers, doers, makers, and storytellers dedicated to doing great work, for good. We partner with passionate and like-minded individuals, businesses, organizations, and causes that have aggressive hopes and goals for tomorrow and beyond. Dreaming big is the only way to make big dreams come true, and we know that our solutions can only be as great as the people we serve. Communities are built by people, not companies. And it is that foundational concept that drives how we approach every project, big or small. Because it’s the passion and drive of individuals that feeds the growth and development of what’s next. Together, we will be smart. We will be relevant. We will be meaningful. We will be kind, supportive, enthusiastic and – at the very least – the very best we can be. We are – and will continue to be – a collaborative organization driven by the power gmcnetwork.com of building better, happier, healthier, thriving communities. And we are committed to working with folks who share our vision for realizing their full potential, because we know that great engineering and architecture helps make communities better, for