Carrie Perrone has rejoined design firm SmithGroup as higher education studio leader in Phoenix. She had been director of higher education at RSP Architects in Tempe. Perrone had previously served as a principal and education strategist at SmithGroup, with a focus on planning and designing learning environments. The firm has 1,300 employees in 19 offices in the U.S. and China, ranking at No. 62 on ENR’s current Top 500 Design Firms list.
Larson Design Group, a Williamsport, Pa., architecture and engineering consultant, has hired Bruce Preston as senior vice president and operations manager of its federal group based in Phoenix. He joins the firm from TSK Architects in Tempe, where he was vice president and manager of its Arizona operations and federal division. LDG’s federal group was started in 2019. Preston also is Southwest regional vice president of the Society of Military Engineers.
