history
K4: Client satisfaction creating growth and momentum
After serving as corporate architect for a large financial institution
and working with a commercial developer, Jeff Klump founded
ADCM, Inc. (Architecture Design Construction Management) and
Klump & Associates Architects with construction professional David Noell in 1999. They
set up an office, and architect John Schaefer soon joined as
partner.
The six-employee group moved to Longworth Hall near Cincinnati’s riverfront in September 1999. They worked with a large financial institution, designed and rolled-out seven stores for a national retail auto parts chain, and partnered with other architects, developers, and construction companies.
In 2001, Jeff Klump reconnected with two professionals with whom he had ties through the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning: architects Rick Posey and Larry Hatfield. As a result of this addition and the increasing growth of the company, they changed the name of Klump & Associates Architects, Inc. to K4 Architecture. The name, K4, reflects the President, Jeff Klump, and the 4 additional principals.
The firms’ revenues grew to over $5 million in 2002 through repeat work with various clients. In 2004, they began searching for a new corporate home to accommodate their expanding business and staff.
In 2005, with revenues over $15 million, they completed
their first self-developed signature project: Their new headquarters facility
on Gest Street in Cincinnati’s Queensgate area. They remade a former
light industrial building into a 24,000-square-foot complex that visually
advertises—exterior and interior—the broad spectrum of services
they offer.
Sensing the need in early 2006 to address the marketplace as one integrated, multidisciplinary entity, an interior design division was added and the companies began operating as K4, implementing the innovative “Customer-Driven Branded Places” philosophy.
Today, K4 is an integrated Team of Design and Construction Professionals partnering with organizations to plan, develop, design, build and manage facilities. K4 specializes in Accountability for the process of delivering Branded Places in multiple locations to the market expeditiously. Our diverse client base demonstrates the adaptability of a Total Solutions process to successful project development for the financial, retail, hospitality, commercial, medical, and institutional market sectors.
K4's growth has been recognized by many, including Inc. Magazine, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (“Blue Ribbon”—top 60 U.S. businesses), Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce (“Emerging 30”), and the Business Courier (“Fast 55”).
K4 Encourages, Inspires, and Leads People and Companies to Grow.