INNOVA Architects was first founded in 2010 by CEO Paul McCormick, and in 2011 incorporated as INNOVA Architects Inc. The vision for INNOVA has always been to be a full-service design firm providing Architecture, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Planning, and Design.

• Industrial Warehouses, Distribution, and Manufacturing
• Commercial Retail Service Centers to Office Buildings
• Federal, Government, Department of Defense
• Recreational Spray Parks, Aquatics, and Pools
• Medical Environments and Surgical Healthcare Facilities
• Senior Housing and Continued Care Retirement Communities
• Multi-Family Housing and Renovations
• Municipal, City, County, State

INNOVA has grown organically on its own since 2010, through building relationships with government organizations, business owners, contractors, developers, brokers, and many other affiliated groups. INNOVA has also grown through mergers/acquisitions of other firms.

INNOVA's history is therefore a compilation of not only its own organic life, since it began in 2010, but also those histories that come with the INNOVA Principals from their prior firms and careers. Below are some of the histories of the companies which have joined INNOVA, or for those that were prior firms of the INNOVA Principals.

Paul McCormick P.E., S.E. - INNOVA Architects, CEO, Founded 2010
Prior to forming INNOVA Architects, Paul McCormick was CEO and Founder of a prominent engineering consulting firm in Tacoma named AHBL Inc. Under Paul's leadership AHBL grew from having a staff of 30 people to employing over 150 professional designers, planners, landscape architects, surveyors and engineers, generating over $20 million dollars annually in revenues and providing services on half a million dollars of construction projects annually. In 2007 Paul sold his AHBL ownership in order to form INNOVA Architects. Today Paul continues to set vision for the future of the firm.

Michael Wager, RA
Michael Wager is a highly specialized architect to the health care industry. His major emphasis is on state-of-the-art licensed ambulatory surgery facilities and diagnostic imaging facilities with a secondary emphasis to include laboratories, physicians' offices, and professional buildings. Providing services in areas such as new facility design and planning, site analysis, code analysis; master planning, construction documents, and administration. Michael Wager is INNOVA's Principal in charge of Medical Facilities and Planning, covering virtually every medical specialty.

Brian Ludwig
Brian Ludwig has worked with INNOVA's CEO Paul McCormick for over 15 years on many projects and specializing in site planning of distribution centers and tenant improvements for industrial developments. Brian manages all aspects of the project, including site master planning, overseeing structural and civil engineering issues and coordinating with subcontractors, permitting agencies, and design consultants. At INNOVA, with Paul McCormick PE SE as Senior Project Engineer, Brian has led the design and construction of over 2.5 million square feet of building, hundreds of millions of dollars in project cost, and thousands of master planned acres. Brian is LEED certified.

Scott Saladis
Scott has over 20 years of experience in the industry, working as both a contractor and a designer on a wide range of projects, including community centers, aquatic facilities, residential homes, multi-family housing, affordable and low-income housing, tenant improvements, and a significant amount of Department of Defense work, including current work with the US Army in Puerto Rico and 3 projects with the US Air Force at Fairchild AFB in Spokane. With his dual experiences as both a designer and contractor, Scott understands efficient workflow, strong design, and innovative problem solving are key to a successful project.