BVG4 Architecture is a blending of two firms with strong Texas backgrounds and national public safety experience. In 2002, Melissa Brand-Vokey started her firm when she observed that smaller cities and counties were not getting the services from larger firms that they required to plan their most technical buildings. Her focus since then has been to bring her years of municipal and public safety planning experience to her clients, so that together they can logically plan for growth. In 2018 Melissa joined forces with Thom Powell, a cultural arts facility specialist, to co-lead the Texas office of a national public safety architecture firm out of Florida and in 2020 believing that they could better serve clients with a more personal hands-on approach, they formed BVG4 Architecture as a full-service architectural firm. BVG4 is a Texas certified Women Owned Business. As public safety and courts consultants BVG4 has proven to be an invaluable part of design teams across the country. BVG4 often serves as a translator speaking the language of both public safety and architecture, helping the team provide a design that is both beautiful, functional, and secure. We are a resource with over 30 years of public safety design experience to assist with the technical aspects of these unique building types.