Background information. NOTHING FOUND HERE RAISES SUSPICIONS ABOUT HOK IN ANYTHING.

The size and prestige of the company, as well as its willingness to send volunteers, give a credible idea of how they got involved.

https://www.hok.com

-HOK website:

HOK is a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm.

Our 1,700 people collaborate across a network of 23 offices on three continents.

-They show many industry accolades such as these two:

Architectural Record: #1 Architecture/Engineering Firm Top 300 Design Firms

Building Design + Construction: #3 Architecture/Engineering Firm Giants 300

-Examples of their many large projects, including high rises:

LaGuardia Airport Central Terminal B in New York

Central Bank of Kuwait Headquarters in Kuwait City

King Saud University in 1984

Many other large name recognizable projects: Microsoft, Apple, BBC Headquarters, more

-Founded in 1955 in St. Louis, second office opened in San Francisco 1965

-They have a program of charitable donation and volunteering their architectural services:

Ronald McDonald House, Girl Scouts, World Cerebral Palsy Day, many more

https://www.hok.com/design/service/architecture/william-jefferson-clinton-childrens-center/

-The Haiti project was done by an all volunteer staff.

HOK calls themselves USGBC's partner in the project.

Called the "William Jefferson Clinton Children’s Center"

"A new orphanage and children’s center in Port-au-Prince will create a culturally relevant model of sustainable construction that can be replicated throughout the region."

-Bill Clinton Himself making the announcement at a forum, CGI 2013 (2:34):

https://youtu.be/Ssj9okbs2m8

Says that they are proving that benefits of green building can be extended to poor as well as rich people.

Bless his soul.

-Architectural Record has an article about the project:

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/2527-safe-harbor?v=preview