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Professional Building Design since 1965
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Building Designer Wayne Short began his
building design career at the age of sixteen when he designed and
built his first underground "house", complete with wood-burning
fireplace, located off the side of a nearby creek bank, utilizing
scrap materials from an adjacent housing addition. An artisan and
craftsman at heart, he pursued the study of fine art and architectural
design/drafting at his local high school in Tulsa, Ok.
With no possibility of college in sight, he married and moved to California where he worked for IBM as a draftsman and then for an Architectural Design firm where he found he could utilize his love for design. In 1965 he moved his family back to Oklahoma and established business as ABC Residential Plan Service in Tulsa. One of his first projects was a 128-bed nursing home which led to the re-naming of the business to ABC Plans, which later became the trademark for the company's line of "stock" custom home designs. Since that time, the company, now known as Wayne Short & Company,
has designed over 600 major building projects -- an average of
fifteen per year.
Although the company is best known for its innovative home design,
the firm's projects have included numerous commercial and industrial
projects -- ranging from airplane hangars to hospital annexes;
convenience stores; restaurants; nursing homes; funeral homes; churches; office
buildings, site planning, street-scaping, etc. Wayne's son William continues to provide complete design services from his office in Tulsa. Now, if you want to know about
us in a way that impacts you, the client, please review our long
list of clients. Some are listed on this website
(click here) or a
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William P. Short |
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Wayne Short, Founder Semi-retired 2007 |
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