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  <created-at type="datetime">2008-11-12T21:39:32Z</created-at>
  <description>&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" size="2"&gt;Rogers, AR &amp;ndash; Crafton Tull Sparks  celebrates 45 years of business this month. Founded in November of 1963 by Lem  Tull and Bob Crafton, they merged with Gary Sparks&amp;rsquo; firm SPARKS in 2006. The  combined firm now has offices in seven cities and is ranked 45th on The Zweig  Letter&amp;rsquo;s 2008 Hot Firm List, representing the 200 fastest-growing architecture,  engineering, planning, and environmental firms in the United States or  Canada.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;quot;We&amp;rsquo;ve been very blessed with excellent  clients through the years,&amp;quot; said Matt Crafton, director of engineering. &amp;quot;A  45-year history of firm experience is significant in our industry. We are  incredibly proud of the employees, former and present ones, who have made this  possible.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" size="2"&gt;Crafton Tull Sparks also recently  announced that they have 42 LEED&amp;reg; accredited employees. This level of commitment  firmly establishes the company as a leader in sustainable design and  construction of green buildings. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" size="2"&gt;In October the firm was ranked 14th by  South Central Construction magazine on their Top 80 Designers List. The list  compared 2007 billings for designers with a permanent office in Alabama,  Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Tennessee.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" size="2"&gt;Crafton Tull Sparks has 335 employees with  offices in Conway, AR, Little Rock, AR, Oklahoma City, OK, Rogers, AR,  Russellville, AR, Tulsa, OK and Wichita, KS. Founded in 1963, they provide  architectural, engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, planning,  and surveying services across the nation.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;span class="631433922-10112008"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="../../../assets/0000/0888/Crafton_Tull_Sparks_45th_anniversary.pdf"&gt; View press release&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <published-at type="datetime">2008-11-12T00:00:00Z</published-at>
  <sub-title>Ranked 45th on Hot Firms List</sub-title>
  <title>Crafton Tull Sparks Celebrates 45 Years</title>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2008-11-12T21:40:52Z</updated-at>
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