Brano Design LLC is a woman- and minority-owned commercial design and consulting firm with 20 years of experience delivering intelligent, sustainable spaces across the government, healthcare, education, commercial, and hospitality sectors. Based in the Northeast and actively expanding globally — with active engagements in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ghana — we bring the same commitment to excellence, accountability, and sustainable practice to every project, wherever in the world it takes us.

We are not a firm that waits to be told what a space should be. We are strategic partners — bridging the gap between design intent and construction reality, translating complex capital project requirements into built environments that perform, comply, and endure.

Our founder Betty Brano built this firm on the belief that sustainable design is not an amenity — it is the foundation. Every specification we produce, every material we source, and every recommendation we make is informed by that principle.

Brano Design specializes in commercial interior design, design-build consulting, and construction management. We work alongside federal agency stakeholders, procurement officers, owners, and developers at every stage of the project lifecycle — from programming and specification through delivery and closeout. Our work spans government facilities, healthcare environments, higher education and institutional spaces, commercial interiors for offices, retail, and mixed-use developments, and hospitality environments from boutique to large-scale.

We hold expertise in Design-Build delivery, having completed extensive DBIA coursework and been recognized by the Design-Build Institute of America for our insights advising emerging professionals in the field.

Credentials & Certifications
Betty Brano holds CID, GREEN AP, and DBIA credentials. Brano Design is certified as an MBE, M/WBE, SBE, DBE, and WOSB — making us a trusted diversity-certified partner for public sector and corporate procurement programs across the United States and internationally. We are also a proud graduate of the WBEC-NY/DMV Sustainability Accelerator, deepening our commitment to environmentally responsible practice at an enterprise level.

Our Clients
Over two decades, Brano Design has earned the trust of clients including Jetlinks at Teterboro Airport, West Point Military Academy, SUNY School of Dentistry, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and organizations across government, healthcare, higher education, and private enterprise. We bring the same rigor to a 500-person federal agency as we do to a growing regional brand — because every client deserves a space that works.

Leadership
Betty Brano's path to founding Brano Design is unlike most. She began her career in the fashion industry, where she developed a trained eye for color theory, material sourcing, and trend-driven design. She then spent a decade as a Project Manager at Merrill Lynch, sharpening her expertise in project planning, financial analysis, and contract negotiation — the discipline that separates firms that promise from firms that deliver.

She founded Brano Design in 2006, applying that rare combination of creative sensibility and financial rigor to commercial interiors. When the 2008 economic downturn reshaped the industry, Betty leveraged her cross-sector expertise to transition the firm into commercial and institutional project work — and never looked back. Today, Brano Design is recognized as one of the top woman- and minority-owned design and consulting firms in the Northeast, with a growing international presence that reflects Betty's vision for a firm without geographic limits.

Whether your project is a federal contract in Washington, a healthcare facility in New York, a commercial development in Toronto, or an institutional build in Accra — Brano Design brings the credentials, the experience, and the cultural fluency to deliver. We understand procurement, we understand design-build, and we understand what it takes to get from vision to ribbon-cutting on time and on budget.

Let's build something that lasts.