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Your practice made perfect.

Apex Design Build is a fully integrated design, architecture and construction firm that specializes in creating state-of-the-art healthcare & veterinary facilities nationwide. Our industry-leading expertise helps you mitigate risk, eliminate surprises, and save time, money, and effort. At Apex, our work pays dividends for your business long after construction is complete. 

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Our Work

 

VISION

Every successful project begins with a thorough consultation with you. Once we understand your vision, we can translate that into a built environment that supports your goals and objectives for your practice.

EXPERTISE

Our talented team of architects, designers, and construction professionals offers highly customized, full-service consulting and design build construction services for healthcare facilities.

METHODOLOGY

Our proven methodology for healthcare facility construction consists of four distinct phases, which together comprise the “Apex Continuum”:

  1. Understand the Vision
  2. Design the Space
  3. Document the Intent
  4. Build the Project

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An Experience Like No Other

 

ACCOUNTABILITY

You have one direct point of contact at a firm with comprehensive capabilities. The result: Total accountability.

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY

Apex Design Build is a family-owned business that for four generations has specialized in guiding healthcare professionals through every step of the design and construction process. Our industry-leading expertise and unique approach to design and construction allows us to anticipate our clients’ needs, address their concerns and take them on a personalized journey that will leave them with more than just a new office, but an enhanced vision of their own practice.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Our designers, architects and construction professionals create state-of-the-art facilities for discerning healthcare professionals. Our team’s expertise and in-depth knowledge of the healthcare industry allows us to act as trusted advisors and provide healthcare professionals with the least stressful construction experience in the industry.

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Our Clients

 

PARTNERS

We are very proud of the partnerships we have forged with our clients on a wide range of project assignments, from modest startup practices, to larger scale, award winning healthcare facilities.

HEAR FROM THEM

With patient care, staff engagement, and practice performance as intentionally incorporated priorities in our design build construction process, we have achieved hundreds of successful project outcomes with our clients. Several of our clients have described their journey with Apex below.

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Who We Are

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1946

1946

With the war over and construction booming, Robert Johnstone obtained his architecture license and opened Robert P. Johnstone Architects in the attic of his home in Oak Park, IL.  
Photo: Robert P. Johnstone Architects began in the attic of this Oak Park home.
1949

1949

Robert Johnstone hard at work in his thriving architecture studio.
Photo: Photo: Robert P. Johnstone, February 1949
1960

1960

Robert’s son Charles R. Johnstone joins the firm.
Photo: Photo: Charles Johnstone, 1960
1965

1965

Robert P. Johnstone Architects had built a recognized name and a well-respected reputation in the Chicagoland area.
Photo: Medical building designed by Robert P. Johnstone Architects, 1965. Elmhurst, IL.
1967

1967

After seven years of working at his father’s firm, Charles set out to expand on his talents and focused on hospital design with a large Chicago architectural firm, Schmidt, Garden, and Erikson Architects.
Photo: Photo: Charles Johnstone working to expand into hospital design

1979

Having now designed hospitals all across the United States, Charles partners once again with his father and they rebrand themselves Johnstone Contracting, adding general contracting capabilities to their thriving design and architecture practice.  

1980-1983

As Robert retires, Charles’ sons—Bob, Steve and Brian—join Johnstone Contracting. The family business continues to build on their world-class reputation for designing, constructing and furnishing architecturally cherished residences and healthcare facilities.

1985

As the second and third generations expand the business, Johnstone Contracting relocates to a larger facility and begins manufacturing its own brand of millwork for both residential and healthcare clients.  

1992

Johnstone Contracting is renamed Millwood Services to better reflect their new manufacturing capabilities.

2006

Having developed a firm widely recognized for its healthcare design capabilities and its renowned cabinetry brand, Millwood Services continues to grow in healthcare architecture, design and construction management.
2008-2010

2008-2010

Steve’s sons—Randy, Sam and Bruce—join the firm and become the fourth generation of the Johnstone family at Millwood Services.
Photo: left to right, Sam, Randy and Bruce Johnstone

2012

Offering a full range of design, architecture, and construction services, the firm rebrands as Apex Design Build.
2018

2018

Over 70 years later, and Apex Design Build has evolved into a world class company, integrating design and construction for premium healthcare facilities across the United States.
Photo: 2018 Apex Company Picnic
WHO WE ARE