GMC | Sports & Entertainment Portfolio 2026

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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

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.

A Winning Team

GMC Sports is a specialty practice dedicated to the design of athletic and recreation facilities.

Championship programs are defined by what makes them exceptional, not typical, and we believe the same rings true for design.

Teamwork, communication and an integrated process are part of every project. Through our broad and diverse experience, we have learned that nothing can be pre-determined or off-the-shelf.

Every sport and team has unique demands and goals for their facilities, and every project we design is tailored to meet those specific needs and achieve the desired vision.

Auburn, University

P. Tippins Family Training Facility Georgia Southern University

Auburn University

Woltosz Football Performance Center

Clemson University

Indoor Football Practice Facility

This has a ‘wow’ factor to it and when recruits come on your campus you have that factor. But, it further demonstrates this University’s commitment to competing to be the best. If our competition is providing these resources and we are not, well, you are not on a level playing field.”

- Dabo Swinney, Head Football Coach Clemson University

Irondale, Alabama

Ruffner Baseball Park

Middle

Tennessee State University

Student Athlete Performance Center

Vanderbilt University

Men

and Women’s

Basketball Locker Room Renovations

Auburn University

Video Boards and Club Space

Trusted by Champions

GMC Sports has worked on more than 60 projects at Auburn University alone over the last decade, including the nation’s largest college video board at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Softball Improvements University of Georgia

Birmingham, Alabama

Oxford, Alabama

Choccolocco Park Recreational Complex

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They’ve designed Protective Stadium with a clear understanding of what has worked well – and what hasn’t –for other facilities around the world.”

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Tad Snider, Executive Director and CEO BJCC Authority

Mobile, Alabama

Clemson University

Mountain Brook City Schools

Baseball Fields

Elevating the Game

GMC has successfully designed athletic facilities for national championship-caliber teams throughout the Southeast, to accommodate a multitude of sports, including football, basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, track and field, tennis, rowing and more.

Jacksonville State University

Loring and Debbie White Football Complex

Florence, Alabama

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Football Operations Facility

I would like to take this opportunity to offer my sincerest gratitude to the team at Goodwyn Mills Cawood (GMC) for a job well done. The new UAB Football Operations Building set the stage for a record setting return season for the Blazers and is a game changer for our football program.”

- Bill Clarke Head Coach UAB Football

Get in the Game with GMC Sports

Sports and recreational facilities are an integral part of the community, whether designed to support a major collegiate athletic program or a local little league team. With several former athletes comprising our team of specialists, we offer a unique perspective and an unprecedented level of expertise. We understand what it takes to compete, and we design facilities that empower athletes, energize fans and strengthen communities.

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 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 everyone. We believe in community, collaboration and using the power of creativity

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