About Us

Long story short

Calbert Design Group is an Atlanta based firm that specializes in guiding childcare and private education owners through the building design and construction process.

We’re not just designers, we’re doers. We dream, plan, sketch, render, draft, schedule, manage, and help. We help our clients materialize their thoughts and plans for their future. We help turn dreams into reality one small goal at a time. From the first conversation with a business owner to the final grand opening of their new facility, we are with our clients every step of the way on their path to getting things done.

Collaborating between our clients, engineers, contractors, and vendors makes exploring meaningful design solutions a rewarding experience. We believe that design should be a careful composition of many elements in balance with one another. Ultimately, our goal is to exceed our clients’ expectations and to provide our clients with environments that reflect their values today and meet their needs well into the future.

REBECCA CALBERT

FOUNDING OWNER

Rebecca Calbert has over 35 years of professional experience designing education, mixed-use, commercial, retail, multi-family housing, and laboratory buildings while working at various Award Winning Architectural firms in the Metro Atlanta area. She now combines her extensive design and construction experience with her passion for children’s built environments. Blending functional requirements and style aesthetics to complement and support the design needs of children and their families is only the beginning. Rebecca’s approach to child-centric design juggles the many priorities of building owner/operators with building cost, construction feasibility, and child and community safety.

Awards/Honors:
American Institute of Architects, Service to the Profession Award, 2009.
Niles Bolton Associates, Mark Mueke Award, 2007.

A limited portfolio of example projects can still be found on CalbertDesign.com

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