Boer Architects, Inc.

What Boer Architects, Inc. does

Boer Architects, Inc. is a privately held, full-service architectural design firm founded in 1988 by Andrew Boer and incorporated in Wisconsin in 1995. The firm is headquartered at 1123 North Water Street in downtown Milwaukee, with five employees and architectural licensure in Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona. Principals Andrew Boer and Paul Doperalski maintain direct involvement in all projects, supported by project manager/principal Steven Korpal, and the firm utilizes a team building and partnering approach with external engineering consultants on larger work.

The firm delivers a comprehensive service portfolio spanning programming, feasibility studies, space planning, new building design, renovations, remodels, historic restoration, interior design, sustainable and LEED-certified design, construction administration, cost estimating, peer reviews, and forensic architecture. Design production relies on industry-standard tools including Revit Architecture, AutoCAD, and 3D Studio Max. Revenue is generated through professional services fees structured as a percentage of construction cost or fixed fees, negotiated on a project-by-project basis under a traditional design-bid-build delivery model.

The firm's client base spans government (Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs, Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Department of Administration, Wisconsin DNR), higher education (UW System campuses, MATC), K-12 education (Milwaukee Public Schools, Racine Unified), and commercial clients (Grand Geneva Resort, Quad/Graphics, Fresh City Restaurant). The firm sells almost exclusively through direct principal-led relationships and a portfolio-driven website, with no AI/ML capabilities, patents, or external funding disclosed.

Name

Boer Architects, Inc.

Legal name

Boer Architects, Inc.

Website

https://boerarch.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Boer Architects, Inc. is a privately held, 5-employee full-service architectural design firm founded in 1988 in Milwaukee, WI, serving government, educational, healthcare, commercial, industrial, and residential clients across the Midwest through principal-led design, renovation, historic restoration, and LEED-certified projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (54141)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB), Sustainable/Green Building & LEED Consulting (BPAHAKAG)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Building renovation design
• Construction administration
• Sustainable building design
• Historic building restoration

Headquarters

HQ city

Milwaukee

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

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: The firm generates revenue through professional architectural services fees on a project-by-project basis. Services include new building design, renovations, remodels, historic restoration, interior design, and construction administration. Revenue is generated through design fees, typically structured as a percentage of construction cost or fixed fees for specific services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Boer Architects, Inc. is a full-service architectural design firm providing planning, architectural design, and interior design services for diverse building types including educational, municipal, military, commercial, industrial, multi-family, and single-family residential. Its practice encompasses new building design, additions, renovations, remodels, historic restoration, sustainable (LEED-certified) design, interior design, and construction administration, with clients across Wisconsin and surrounding states.

Product overview

Boer Architects, Inc. is a full-service architectural design firm offering a comprehensive suite of architectural services. Their core offering is architectural design services encompassing planning, design, and interior design. The service portfolio includes new building design, renovations and remodeling, building repair and maintenance, historic restoration, sustainable design (including LEED-certified projects), interior design, construction administration, cost estimating, peer reviews, forensic architecture, facility audits, feasibility studies, space planning, programming, building documentation, and selective demolition. The firm specializes in diverse building types including educational (primary, secondary, post-secondary), municipal, military, commercial, healthcare, industrial, multi-family, and single-family residential projects. The firm uses a traditional design-bid-build delivery approach and favors the team building and partnering approach to design services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architectural Design Services Full-service architectural design offering planning, architectural design, and interior design services for diverse building types including educational, municipal, military, commercial, industrial, multi-family, and single-family residential. Delivered through a team building and partnering approach using a traditional design-bid-build delivery method.
• Renovation, Addition, and Remodeling Services Architectural design services for existing building additions, renovations, and remodels across educational, governmental, healthcare, and commercial building types, including occupied/active facility renovations.
• Historic Building Restoration Restoration design services for historic buildings preserving architectural heritage, including historic preservation requirements, code compliance, and modern amenity integration.
• Sustainable (LEED) Building Design Sustainable and energy-efficient building design services pursuing LEED certification, with demonstrated LEED Silver delivery through GBCI. Projects include energy-efficient design, sustainable material specification, and integrated sustainable design practices.
• Construction Administration Services Construction inspection and contract administration services to oversee project execution, including on-site observation, contractor coordination, and serving as the client's advocate throughout the construction phase.

Named customers11 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Bailey Edward Design, Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDesign Partner on the Appleton Readiness Center Addition and Renovation project. Boer Architects worked in concert with Bailey Edward Design to provide new offices, conference rooms, classrooms, restrooms, locker rooms and maintenance bay for the 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• La Dallman Architects: Milwaukee-based architecture firm with similar regional focus on education, civic, and cultural projects. Directly comparable small-to-mid-size Wisconsin architectural practice pursuing overlapping public-sector clients.
• Engberg Anderson: Milwaukee-based architecture firm with established healthcare, education, and cultural practices. Competes for similar Wisconsin-based healthcare, education, and municipal projects with comparable project scale.
• Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA): Milwaukee-based architecture firm with strong education, workplace, and healthcare practices. Comparable regional competitor pursuing UW System, K-12, and corporate Wisconsin clients, similar in scale and full-service delivery model.
• HGA Architects and Engineers: Minneapolis-headquartered architecture and engineering firm serving healthcare, education, government, and cultural clients across the Upper Midwest. Directly comparable in public-sector and educational focus, and competes for similar Wisconsin and Minnesota institutional commissions.
• Zimmerman Architectural Studios: Wisconsin-based (Ixonia) architecture firm serving educational, religious, and commercial clients throughout the Midwest. Comparable regional competitor with similar building-type diversity and public-sector presence.
• Kahler Slater: Milwaukee-based full-service architecture and design firm serving similar government, healthcare, education, and corporate clients in the Upper Midwest. Directly comparable in size, location, and service mix, competing for many of the same Wisconsin-based RFPs.
• GRAEF (Graef-USA): Milwaukee-headquartered engineering, architecture, and planning firm with deep Wisconsin public-sector relationships. Competes for similar municipal, transportation, and infrastructure projects and has overlapping clients.

Broad incumbents

• SmithGroup: National architecture and engineering firm with significant higher education, healthcare, and government practices including work for UW System campuses. Competes for larger Wisconsin and Midwest institutional commissions Boer Architects also pursues.
• DLR Group: Large national integrated design firm with strong K-12, higher education, and civic practices across the Midwest. Larger-scale competitor on similar educational and government projects, with integrated design-build delivery capabilities.
• CannonDesign: National architecture, engineering, and design firm with significant healthcare and higher education practices including VA medical centers and UW System work. Competes for the federal healthcare and university projects Boer Architects targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/boer-architects-inc-

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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