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Perkins+Will Named a Winner of the 2008 ASTD "BEST" Awards

WASHINGTON-(Business Wire)-October 3, 2008 - Perkins+Will, a leading global integrated design firm, is proud to announce that it was named among the winners of the 2008 American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) BEST Award, announced yesterday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Established in 1993, the awards recognize organizations that have demonstrated enterprise-wide success as a result of employee learning and development. Perkins+Will is among 40 organizations from around the world to receive an ASTD BEST Award (Building talent, Enterprise-wide, Supported by the organization’s leaders, fostering a Thorough learning culture).

“Investing in the education of our employees is an important part of our corporate culture,” said Garrett Dickinson, Perkins+Will Director of Learning and Development. “We believe that it is our responsibility to give your employees the tools they need to continuously grow in their profession. Our Project Management Development Program, as well as our Leadership Institute, are supplying the firm with our next managers and leaders.”

All winners are recognized in a special section of the October 2008 issue of Training + Development (T+D), ASTD’s monthly magazine.

About Perkins+Will

Established in 1935, Perkins+Will (www.perkinswill.com) is an integrated design firm serving clients from offices in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Hartford, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Orlando, Research Triangle Park, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, Vancouver, and Washington, DC. With more LEED(r) Accredited Professionals than any firm in the world, Perkins+Will is recognized as a preeminent sustainable design firm in the country. The firm practices architecture, interiors, branded environments, planning + strategies and urban design with clients in the aviation, corporate + commercial + civic, healthcare, higher education, K-12 education, and science + technology markets. Perkins+Will routinely ranks among the world's top design firms and has received hundreds of awards, including the prestigious American Institute of Architects' "Firm of the Year Award."

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