Community-Focused Housing Solutions

We help clients navigate the complex work of planning, designing, and constructing affordable housing.

Through innovative, cost-efficient solutions grounded in technical excellence and shaped by meaningful input from residents who will call these communities home, our team combines resilient infrastructure, sustainable design strategies, and efficient project delivery, while actively engaging stakeholders to understand their lived needs and priorities. The result is community-focused development that reflects local voices and meets funding, regulatory, and schedule requirements.

Comprehensive Housing Solutions

From planning through construction, our integrated services help clients navigate the challenges of delivering safe, quality housing.

  • We assess opportunities and constraints early to reduce risk and strengthen project viability, including site access, utilities, zoning, environmental conditions, and constructability considerations.

  • Our multidisciplinary teams collaborate from the start to improve efficiency, coordinate systems, and limit costly redesigns, supporting projects delivered through design-bid-build, design-build, and progressive design-build models.

  • Our environmental services support housing projects through environmental assessments, remediation planning, permitting, and compliance, helping organizations to responsibly advance development while protecting communities and natural resources.

  • Energy- and water-efficient strategies lower lifecycle costs and support long-term performance.

  • Our team plans and coordinates vertical transportation systems, including elevators and related infrastructure, to ensure accessibility, code compliance, reliability, and seamless integration with architectural and structural designs.

  • Our experts navigate complex local, state, and federal requirements to keep projects moving.

  • Data-informed evaluations ensure affordability without compromising safety, quality, or long-term performance across a range of delivery methods.

  • We deliver end-to-end oversight to maintain budget, schedule, and compliance, with experience supporting traditional design-bid-build and alternative delivery approaches, including design-build and progressive design-build.

  • Our experienced program managers serve as a single point of accountability, overseeing multiple projects, coordinating stakeholders, and aligning delivery strategies to achieve consistent, successful outcomes.

  • Our team provides building condition assessment programs to evaluate the physical condition, performance, and risks of a facility or portfolio. The assessment inspects and examines key building systems to identify deficiencies, estimate remaining service life, and inform maintenance priorities and future capital investments.

Expertise Across Housing Design, Construction & Program Management

#16

Top 90 Multifamily Engineering Firms, Building Design + Construction Giant’s Ranking

#4

Top Design, ENR East’s Regional Rankings

#11

Pure Designers, ENR Rankings

#20

Combined Design and CM-PM Professional Services, ENR Rankings

“The work needed to be completed at multiple occupied buildings simultaneously, a challenge amplified by COVID-19, which meant that most residents would be at home during construction. In a coordinated effort with contractors and unions, GFT arrived at a plan for protecting residents and workers – while also ensuring steady workforce strength and adherence to work schedules. We commend GFT and their personnel for their outstanding dedication and performance.”

Oliver Osterwind, PE
Vice President for Project Management, Capital Programs
New York City Housing Authority

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