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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 multidisciplined 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 Duluth Savannah
Kentucky Williamsburg Louisiana New Orleans North Carolina Charlotte South Carolina Charleston Columbia Conway Greenville Rock Hill Tennessee Brentwood Nashville
Firm Overview & Awards
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9
75+
Years of Business
Top Sports Facility Architecture & AE Firm 2025 Building Design + Construction Giants 400 Report
12
Disciplines
7
op Architecture Firm T 2025 ENR Texas and Southeast
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Top Sports Facility AE Firms 2025 Building Design + Construction Giants 400 Report
1 Top Alabama Design Firms 2025 4 Education Top Design Firms 2024 14 Top Design Firms 2024 25 Top University Architecture and AE Firms 2025 ENR Texas and Southeast
ENR Southeast
ENR Southeast
Building Design + Construction Giants 400
30+
700+
Current Offices in the Southeast
Professionals
14
Top Design Firms in the Southeast 2024 ENR Southeast
+$2B Designed Annually
18
op AE Firms 2025 T Building Design + Construction Giants 400 Report
32 Top Design Firms 2025 33 K-12 School Design Firms 2025 37 Top Convention Center AE Firms 2025 51 Top 300 Architecture Firms 2025 ENR Texas and Southeast
Building Design + Construction Giants 400
Building Design + Construction Giants 400
Architectural Record
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, Alabama
Women’s Basketball Locker Room Renovations at Auburn University
Hoover, Alabama
Hoover Met Complex
Statesboro, Georgia
Anthony P. Tippins Family Training Facility at Georgia Southern University
Auburn, Alabama
Woltosz Football Performance Center at Auburn University
Clemson, South Carolina
Indoor Football Practice Facility at Clemson University
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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
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Student Athlete Performance Center at Middle Tennessee State University
Nashville, Tennessee
Men’s and Women’s Basketball Locker Room Renovations at Vanderbilt University
Hoover, Alabama
The Finley Center
Auburn, Alabama
Video Boards and Club Space at Auburn University
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.
Athens, Georgia
Jack Turner Stadium Softball Improvements at University of Georgia
Clemson, South Carolina
Littlejohn Coliseum + Swann Pavilion at Clemson University
Birmingham, Alabama
Coca-Cola Amphitheater
Oxford, Alabama
Choccolocco Park Recreational Complex
Birmingham, Alabama
Protective Stadium
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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.” - Tad Snider, Executive Director and CEO BJCC Authority
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile Arena
Clemson, South Carolina
Softball Complex at Clemson University
Mountain Brook City Schools
Baseball Fields
Clemson, South Carolina
Allen N. Reeves Football Complex at Clemson University
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, Alabama
Loring and Debbie White Football Complex at Jacksonville State University
Florence, Alabama
Florence Sportsplex
Birmingham, Alabama
Football Operations Facility at University of Alabama at Birmingham
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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 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