What Schopfer Architects does

Schopfer Architects LLP is a privately held, full-service architecture and engineering practice headquartered at 1111 James Street in Syracuse, New York, founded in 1948 by Gordon P. Schopfer, A.I.A. The firm offers architectural design, structural engineering, interior design, facility planning, sustainable design, landscape design, site evaluation, building investigation, code analysis, and graphic rendering as core design services, with mechanical, electrical, plumbing/fire protection, and civil/environmental engineering provided through an integrated consultant division. Multi-discipline delivery is offered under a single roof, an arrangement that smaller practices cannot match and larger firms typically decline for mid-size projects.

The firm serves eight vertical markets — Healthcare, Education, Hospitality, Recreation, Financial Institutions, Corporate Facilities, Urban Development, and Industrial/Manufacturing — with a particularly dense healthcare book including hospitals, rehabilitation centers, assisted living facilities, and medical offices across New York state. Selected project work spans institutional clients (Cornell University Sailing Center; Onondaga Community College's 137,000 SF Ferrante Hall adaptive reuse; Morrisville State College Equine Program; Veterans Affairs Medical Center), branded hospitality accounts (Courtyard Marriott, Marriott Inns at Armory Square, High Peaks Resort), financial institutions (SECNY Federal Credit Union, First Source Federal Credit Union, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of CNY), and industrial clients (National Grid's Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant facilities; Tessy 270,000 SF manufacturing addition; an aerospace industry manufacturer's 248,000 SF of high-tech labs and engineering offices). Practice leaders David A. Schlosser (AIA, NCARB) and Robert Seigart (AIA, LEED AP, NCARB) carry the firm's principal certifications.

The business model is project-based professional services: engagements are tailored to scope and quoted per project, with no standardized rate cards disclosed. Go-to-market relies on the firm's project portfolio website, direct phone sales, and contact-form inquiries. The firm is registered to practice in 11 states (NY, NC, FL, OH, MD, PA, MA, WV, NH, TX, NJ) but operates from a single Syracuse office, suggesting project-based regional travel rather than branch infrastructure. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; the firm has no external investment, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no disclosed funding rounds.

Name

Schopfer Architects

Legal name

Schopfer Architects LLP

Website

https://schopfer.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1948

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Schopfer Architects LLP is a Syracuse, NY-based architectural and engineering practice offering full-service design (architectural, structural, interior, and integrated MEP/civil engineering) across healthcare, education, hospitality, recreation, financial, corporate, and industrial sectors, with licensure in 11 US states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Engineering Services (54133), Interior Design Services (54141)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB), Construction Engineering & Constructability Consulting (BPAHAIAN)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Structural engineering services
• Interior design services
• Healthcare facility design
• Educational facility design

Headquarters

HQ city

Syracuse

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Professional Design Services: Architecture, structural engineering, and interior design services provided on a project basis. Services are delivered through direct client engagements for new construction, renovation, adaptive reuse, and addition projects across multiple industry sectors.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Schopfer Architects LLP delivers full-service architectural, structural, and interior design services for new construction, renovation, adaptive reuse, and addition projects across healthcare, education, hospitality, recreation, financial institutions, corporate, and industrial/manufacturing sectors. The firm also provides integrated consultant engineering services (mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection, and civil/environmental engineering) as part of its project delivery, offering clients a single-source design solution from initial site evaluation through completion.

Product overview

Schopfer Architects LLP is an architecture and engineering firm offering a comprehensive suite of design services organized into Design Services and Consultant Services. Design Services include Architectural Design, Structural Engineering, Interior Design, Facility Planning, Sustainable Design, Landscape Design, Site Evaluation & Planning, Building Investigation & Evaluation, Code Analysis, and Graphic Rendering. Consultant Services include Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Plumbing and Fire Protection, and Civil & Environmental Engineering. The firm serves diverse sectors including Healthcare, Education, Hospitality, Recreation, Financial Institutions, Corporate Facilities, and Industrial/Manufacturing projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Design Services

Named customers33 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• HOK: HOK is a global architecture and engineering firm with large healthcare, education, and hospitality practices. It pursues the same marquee institutional clients as Schopfer but at a global scale and with significantly deeper resources.
• EwingCole: EwingCole is a Philadelphia-based architecture and engineering firm with a nationally recognized healthcare and higher-education practice. It competes for the same institutional healthcare RFPs that drive a large portion of Schopfer's backlog.
• Clark Nexsen: Clark Nexsen is an architecture and engineering firm with strong healthcare, higher-education, and federal/military practices and an East Coast footprint. It competes for institutional healthcare and higher-ed work in geographies adjacent to Schopfer's licensure map.
• Stantec Architecture: Stantec is a global AEC firm with deep healthcare, education, and community-development practices and a major Northeast US presence. It competes with Schopfer for institutional commissions but at much larger scale and geographic reach.

Direct peers

• CannonDesign: CannonDesign is a Buffalo, NY-headquartered architecture and engineering firm with a strong healthcare and higher-education practice. It competes directly with Schopfer for institutional healthcare and education clients in the Northeast and offers a similarly integrated A&E delivery model.
• SWBR Architects: SWBR is a Rochester, NY-based architecture, engineering, and interior design firm of comparable size serving healthcare, education, and commercial clients. It directly overlaps with Schopfer on sector mix, geography (Upstate NY), and integrated A&E service model.
• H2M architects + engineers: H2M is a New York-based architecture and engineering firm serving public-sector, education, and commercial clients across the Northeast. Comparable multi-disciplinary service mix and regional operating footprint.
• LaBella Associates: LaBella Associates is a Rochester, NY-headquartered multidisciplinary firm offering architecture, engineering, and planning services across healthcare, education, and commercial markets. Comparable to Schopfer in geographic scope and integrated A&E delivery.
• Ashley McGraw Architects: Ashley McGraw is a Syracuse, NY architecture firm of similar size focused on healthcare, education, and community projects. It is a direct local peer competing for the same institutional clients in Central New York.
• King + King Architects: King + King is a Central New York architecture firm with a long history serving K-12, higher education, healthcare, and municipal clients. It is a same-region peer with overlapping sector coverage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses6 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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