Winter Design

What Winter Design does

Winter Design, Inc. is a professional architectural and planning services firm headquartered at 1840 S. Walnut Avenue, Freeport, Illinois. The firm provides end-to-end architectural services across five primary verticals — healthcare, commercial, industrial, municipal, and religious — supplemented by specialty housing work. Service offerings span site evaluation, master planning, planning and design, technical expertise, and bidding/negotiation support. The firm delivers projects through multiple methods, including design-build, construction management, and traditional plans and specifications, and uses 3D modeling and live virtual walkthroughs to enable clients to visualize building projects before construction. Its business model is project-based professional services, with documented project values ranging from approximately $157,000 (FHN Cancer Center equipment upgrades) to $6.9 million (GSDC Manufacturing, an 88,400 SF facility), implying architectural fees in the mid-six to low-seven figure range per engagement.

Winter Design operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Winter Construction, with Scott A. Winter, AIA serving as President and Principal Architect for Winter Design and concurrently as Vice President of Design/Build Services for Winter Construction. This structure provides an integrated design-build channel and is the firm's primary distribution advantage. The firm maintains affiliations with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE), and STAR Building Systems (which awarded Winter Construction the 2011 STAR Award). Marketing activity is concentrated in a website portfolio, LinkedIn/Facebook/Google+ presence, community involvement (Little Cubs Field, Freeport Downtown Historic Preservation Group), and speaking engagements at Highland Community College and Freeport Middle School.

The firm's customer base is regionally concentrated in northern Illinois (Freeport, Sterling, Oregon) with isolated out-of-region projects in Florida and Oregon via collaboration with MGA Architects. Documented clients include FHN (multiple healthcare projects), CGH Medical Center, Coventry Living Center, P&P Industries, Generations Brewing Co., City of Freeport, J.H. Barkau & Sons, Frank Jewelers, and Cannova's Restaurant — spanning enterprise, SMB, healthcare provider, government, and nonprofit customer types. The firm is privately held with no disclosed funding, no disclosed headcount, and no app, API, or software product.

Name

Winter Design

Legal name

Winter Design, Inc.

Website

https://winterdesigninc.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Winter Design is a Freeport, Illinois-based architectural and planning services firm serving healthcare, commercial, industrial, municipal, and religious clients with 3D modeling and design-build delivery. It operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Winter Construction, led by principal architect Scott A. Winter, AIA.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (541410)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Building planning services
• Design-build services
• Construction management
• 3D modeling visualization

Headquarters

HQ city

Freeport

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Architectural Planning and Design Services: Professional architectural and planning services including site evaluation, master planning, design, technical expertise, and bidding/negotiation support. Revenue is generated through project-based fees for design and planning services delivered via design-build, construction management, or traditional specification methods.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Winter Design provides professional architectural and planning services for healthcare, commercial, industrial, municipal, religious, and specialty housing projects. Services span site evaluation, master planning, design and technical expertise (including 3D modeling and live virtual walkthroughs), and bidding/negotiation support, delivered through design-build, construction management, or traditional plans-and-specifications methods.

Product overview

Winter Design is an architectural and planning services firm that provides professional design services for commercial, healthcare, industrial, religious, municipal, and specialty housing projects. Their service offering is organized as a unified consulting practice rather than a software platform, encompassing site evaluation, master planning, planning and design, technical expertise (including 3D modeling and energy analysis), and bidding/negotiation services. The firm operates primarily as a design/build practitioner serving clients in northern Illinois and neighboring states.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architectural Planning and Design Services Comprehensive architectural and planning services for healthcare, commercial, industrial, municipal, religious, and specialty housing projects, including site evaluation, master planning, design, technical expertise, and bidding/negotiation support, delivered via design-build, construction management, or traditional plans-and-specifications methods.
• 3D Modeling and Virtual Walkthrough Services Visualization services that use 3D modeling and live virtual walkthroughs to help clients experience building projects before construction, supporting idea exploration and design review.
• Design-Build and Construction Management Services Design-build and construction management delivery methods, executed together with parent Winter Construction, providing clients with integrated design and construction accountability across projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• 88,400 SF state-of-the-art manufacturing facility completed for P&P Industries in Spring 2012
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Winter ConstructioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 February 2011Winter Design, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Winter Construction. Scott Winter serves as President and Principal Architect for Winter Design while also serving as Vice President of Design/Build Services for Winter Construction. The two entities work together on design-build and construction management projects.
• American Institute of Architects (AIA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe AIA is the voice of the architecture profession. Based in Washington, D.C., the American Institute of Architects has been the leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners since 1857. Winter Design is affiliated as a member firm with AIA credentialed architect Scott A. Winter, AIA.
• American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health care physical environment. As a trusted industry resource, ASHE is committed to members, the facilities they build and maintain, and the patients they serve. Winter Design's multiple healthcare facility projects aligns with ASHE expertise.
• STAR Building SystemscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStar Building Systems is a leading manufacturer of custom designed metal building systems for commercial, industrial, institutional and agricultural use. Star Building Systems has awarded Winter Construction the 2011 STAR Award recognizing quality products, quality construction and quality relationships. Winter Design works with STAR's network of authorized builders.
• MGA ArchitectsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWinter Design collaborated with MGA Architects on All Saints Episcopal project for fundraising package design and Valley Presbyterian project for narthex expansion and ADA lift installation.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Gensler: Global design and architecture firm with large commercial, retail, and healthcare practices — represents the scale-end incumbent against which Winter Design's mid-market commercial and retail work is positioned.
• SmithGroup: Integrated design firm with strong healthcare, higher education, and workplace practices — a relevant broader incumbent competing for hospital, clinic, and institutional work overlapping Winter Design's portfolio.
• CannonDesign: Larger national design firm with strong healthcare and higher-education practices — competes with Winter Design for hospital and clinic work but operates at significantly greater scale and geographic reach.
• HDR Architecture: National A&E firm with significant healthcare, civic, and industrial architecture practices — a broader incumbent that competes for larger healthcare and municipal projects in the same verticals Winter Design serves.
• Perkins&Will: Global architecture firm with a leading healthcare practice (formerly Ellerbe Becket) — represents the larger end of the healthcare architecture market that Winter Design competes in for hospital and clinic engagements.
• HGA Architects Engineers: National integrated A&E firm with deep healthcare, arts, and education practices — a relevant broader incumbent whose healthcare renovation portfolio overlaps directly with Winter Design's strongest vertical.

Direct peers

• Wight & Company: Midwest-based integrated architecture and construction firm that, like Winter Design, combines design services with a parent general contractor/builder relationship, enabling single-source design-build delivery for commercial, education, healthcare, and municipal clients in Illinois and surrounding states.
• Legat Architects: Midwest-rooted architecture firm with deep K-12, higher education, municipal, and commercial work — a comparable regional multi-vertical practice whose scale and project type closely mirror Winter Design's.
• WJW Architects: Regional Illinois architecture firm serving healthcare, senior living, education, commercial, and religious clients with a comparable multi-vertical project mix and similar mid-market client base anchored in the Chicago/Northern Illinois region.
• Cordogan Clark & Associates: Illinois-based architecture and planning firm serving education, municipal, healthcare, and commercial clients in the same regional Midwest market as Winter Design, with comparable project types and delivery models.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/WinterDesignInc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/winter-design-inc-

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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