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A convention room is a component of certainly one of Treanor’s latest tasks, the renovation of the Topeka Metropolis Corridor, which was constructed in 1939 beneath the Works Progress Administration.

Treanor has been named the 2026 ENR Midwest Agency of the 12 months, an award based mostly on an organization’s success in development and income, innovation, help of the AEC business 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 centered on designing faculties, church buildings and small business tasks. It has since grown right into a nationwide agency serving a variety of economic purchasers throughout the U.S. Treanor at present has 175 staff and was certainly one of ENR’s High 100 Inexperienced Design Companies in 2025.

Via 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 tasks, together with work for the Kansas Statehouse. Throughout this era, it additionally expanded its deal with public and institutional purchasers, significantly 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 mixing of assorted legacy corporations it had acquired and its evolution right into a unified, multidisciplinary apply.

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

Treanor staff devoted greater than 1,400 volunteer hours in 2025 to help 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 mandatory 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 seek out out the place the agency ranks on the 2026 ENR MidWest High Design Agency rankings testing the Could concern of ENR Midwest.