Firm History and Profile

<body background="http://www.syharris.com/Images/mbds.JPG"> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%" height="100"> <tr> <td width="406" align="left" height="38"> <p align="left"><img border="0" src="Images/BANNER1.GIF" align="left" width="320" height="39"></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="406" align="left" height="31"><img border="0" src="Images/SHYM.gif" width="4" height="13"><img border="0" src="Images/atech.gif" width="294" height="29"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="406" align="left" height="28"><img border="0" src="Images/SHYM.gif" width="54" height="26"></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="253"> <tr> <td width="1%" height="18"></td> <td width="99%" height="18">This site best viewed with a frames capable browser.<p><font face="Garamond"><a href="1%20-%20Home%20Page/1%20-%20Home%20Page/Web%20Pages/SPLASH.HTM">Splash</a></font>  <font face="Garamond"><a href="2%20-%20Who%20We%20Are/1%20-%20Who%20We%20Are/Web%20Pages/Who%20We%20Are.htm">Who we are</a></font>  <font face="Garamond"><a href="3%20-%20What%20We%20Do/1%20-%20What%20We%20Do/What%20We%20Do.htm">What we do</a> </font> <font face="Garamond"><a href="3%20-%20What%20We%20Do/3%20-%20Projects/1%20-%20Projects/Web%20Pages/Projects.htm">Projects</a></font>  <font face="Garamond"><a href="contact.htm">Contact Us</a> </font> <font face="Garamond"><a href="Under%20Construction.html">Home</a></font> <p><b><font face="Garamond"><big>F</big>IRM<big> H</big>ISTORY<big> & P</big>ROFILE</font></b> </p> <p><font face="Garamond">The consulting practice of S. Harris & Co. was founded in January 2000, offering competent professional advice in the general domain of buildings and construction. The firm provides advisory and technical services, guiding property owners, architects, engineers, attorneys, contractors, preservationists, boards of directors, and institutional administrators through the myriad of building and construction-related problems.<br> <br> S. Harris & Co. combines the professions of architecture, engineering, interior design, planning and law in such a manner that property owners and fellow professionals can avail themselves of the best and most relevant professional advice. Yet S. Harris & Co. possesses the flexibility, principal-involved service, and low overhead costs of a small company. </font> <p><font face="Garamond">Our <b>operating philosophy</b> is simply that our clients are our most valued assets.  As professionals we fashion ourselves as guides and advisors to assist the client through the process of problem solution and execution.  This is as opposed to an all too common attitude among practicing professionals that our ideas and our preferences supercede those of the client or, at a minimum, are superior to those of the client.  We view our job as one of providing a client with reasonable and available options to their presented dilemma, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of each option, recommending courses of action, and abiding by the decision of the client as diligently as though such a preference were our own.  We believe that being a professional means and includes the art of elevating the clients interests above our own, even when and particularly when those interests may be in conflict.  We do not view our clients and their associated problems as means to ulterior goals such as awards and fame; our clients, the solutions of our clients' problems, and their satisfaction are ends in themselves.<br> <br> With a total of more than forty years dedicated to design and historic preservation, the principal and his associates have provided technical and advisory services for such clients as the Eastern State Penitentiary, Glen Foerd, Loudon, Memorial Hall, the Fairmount Park Art Association, Fairmount Waterworks, Historic Fallsington, Historic Building Architects, Oehrlein & Associates Architects, the National Park Service, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the City of Philadelphia, the City of Wilmington, and the General Services Administration to name a few.</font> <p> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="39"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18"> <p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><small><font face="Garamond"><b>2601 P<small>ENNSYLVANIA</small> A<small>VENUE</small>    S<small>UITE</small> E<small>IGHT</small>    P<small>HILADELPHIA</small>    P<small>ENNSYLVANIA</small>    19130-2348</b></font></small></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="21"> <p align="center"> <small><font face="Garamond"><b> E<small>LECTRONIC</small> M<small>AIL</small>: <a href="mailto:syh@syharris.com">SYH@SYHarris.com</a>     P<small>HONE</small>: 215-769-1133     F<small>ACSIMILE</small>: 215-769-1173</b></font></small></td> </tr> </table> </center> </body>