Washington D.C.

Jason Wright

Hickok Cole

Jason Wright is an Principal and technical leader at Hickok Cole with over two decades experience designing, renovating, and constructing commercial and institutional buildings. Highly technical by nature, his specialty is focusing on detailing and how buildings are assembled to reinforce the design concept. Jason is an advocate for advancing building codes to support further progress and innovation in sustainable design and participates in the new code development process for The District of Columbia. Internally, Jason leads the firm’s Technical Operations Group and Quality Control Committees.

Jason is a registered architect in Virginia and LEED AP B+C accredited. He is a member of AIA, DCBIA, NFPA, and DCBIA DLD, as well as DCRA Technical Advisor Groups on Fire and Life Safety and Accessibility. Jason received his Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 2000 and a Bachelor of Building Science with a Psychology concentration earlier that year.

Jason’s award-winning projects have been featured in a variety of design publications including The Architect’s Newspaper, retrofit, Metropolis, ArchitectureDC, Think Wood, and Bisnow. His most noteworthy projects include 80 M Street, DC’s first mass timber office renovation, Anthem Row at 700-800 K, and 1701 Rhode Island NW.

Tom Corrado

Hickok Cole

Tom Corrado, LEED AP is an Associate Principal and a senior project designer at Hickok Cole, where he works for the firm’s commercial architecture practice. With 20+ years of design experience, his holistic approach emphasizes a synergy between a building’s function and how it’s experienced by its users. A few of Tom’s design interests include urban studies, enhanced placemaking, and how innovations in digital fabrication and material science will drive architecture and design in the 21st century. His most recent obsession is mainstreaming mass timber, a material he feels has the capacity to completely alter the way we design, construct, and experience buildings. He is also working on new prototypes of medical office buildings and incorporating biophilia into the healthcare industry. His most noteworthy projects include 80 M Street, Washington DC’s first mass timber office renovation, Anthem Row, 909 Rose Avenue, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies headquarters. Tom earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Architecture at Clemson University.

Thilo Wilhelmsen

DPR Construction

Thilo Wilhelmsen spent most of his 30+ year construction industry career focusing on highly complex exterior envelope systems. Prior to joining DPR as their Exterior Skin Expert, Thilo worked for international glazing contractors on some of the largest and complex building envelopes throughout North America and Europe.

His experience includes many ground-up core and shell projects in the commercial, higher education, healthcare, hospitality, transportation, and retail markets, ranging from $5-400M.

Since becoming a member of DPR’s team, Thilo has been leading the exterior envelope preconstruction and design assist phases on some of the company’s target projects nationwide. He has also been instrumental in developing DPR’s prefabricated, exterior wall panel applications. Through DPR’s own prefabrication subsidiary, Thilo has successfully incorporated the advantages of this construction approach into many of DPR’s ground-up projects throughout the country.

Janki Bhatia

LEO A DALY

Janki Bhatia is a Project Architect at Leo A Daly. Formally an architect with SmithGroup and AECOM. Bhatia has 15 plus years of experience and a masters from Virginia Tech.

Andrew Graham

LEO A DALY

Andrew Graham is a Senior Architect at Leo A Daly. He has been with Leo A Daly for over 13 years. Graham oversees the design and construction of large complex projects including mixed-use, office, retail, residential, educational and aviation facilities located in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

Paul Totten

WSP

Paul E. Totten is a Vice President at WSP and leads the Building Enclosures Division. He has over 21 years of experience in the fields of structural engineering, building enclosure technology and commissioning, and building science. He has concentrated his expertise on the evaluation and analysis of heat, air, and moisture transfer, and the cumulative effect these elements have on building components and building operation.

He is past co-chair of the Washington, DC AIA/NIBS Building Enclosure Council, a member of NIBS, ASHRAE, and USGBC and a committee member of the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Guideline 3 – Exterior Enclosure Technical Requirements for the Commissioning Process. He is a past committee member of the NIBS Consultative Council Topical Committee for defining high performance building metrics as well as the past chair for NIBS Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Council (BETEC) Education committee. He was the lead instructor for the Building Science and Technology course taught in the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program at The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning and a coordinator and lecturer for the AIA DC High Performance Building series.

P. Christian Bailey

Morris Adjmi

P. Christian Bailey, AIA, LEED AP, is a Director at Morris Adjmi. Bailey joined MA after 25 years of architectural experience, most recently as the Founding Principal and Director of ODA Architecture. He has a proven record of success leading teams on innovative mixed-use/mixed-income projects and is well-known for his passion and mentorship in his work. As a Director, Bailey works collaboratively with Founding Principal Morris Adjmi and MA’s leadership team to develop and execute projects and initiatives that align with the firm’s core focus and long-term goals. Bailey is the Board President of the Society of Registered Architects (SARA) New York Chapter, a member of the Industry Advisory Group for the United States Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO), an active member of the AIA and Urban Land Institute (ULI), and an Adjunct Professor at City Tech.

Molly Raglani

Clark Construction

Molly Raglani oversees project acquisition, development, execution, and delivery in the Mid-Atlantic.
She is also responsible for cultivating client relationships for residential and mixed-use projects in the region. Since joining Clark in 2005, Molly has led many notable projects, including: The Wharf, CityCenterDC, The Stacks, Central Place Residential. The Wilson and The Elm. Molly has a BSc in Civil Engineering from George Washington University and an MBA from University of Maryland.

Dongyeop Lee

SmithGroup

Dongyeop Lee has more than two decades of extensive experiences in architectural design of commercial, residential, cultural, aviation, hospitality and mixed-use projects throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. With his expertise in design for a wide range of projects, he focuses on how to enhance design quality and process through computation methodologies in architecture. He co-leads computation under the Technology In Practice (TIP) Group at SmithGroup.  Dongyeop has crafted a unique expertise in how parametric design workflows are utilized in building enclosure design.  Using cutting edge modeling tools and then simplifying data to translate into a buildable model, Dongyeop does complex geometric analysis and optimization for various façade systems.  He has also developed proprietary computational tools to accomplish automated design documentation, data visualization, and performance evaluation.

Isaiah Walston

HITT

Isaiah brings more than 18 years of field experience in supervising and managing construction projects to HITT. Isaiah is a LEED AP with experience implementing core ideas and values of sustainable construction and has supported certification for more than 10 million sf of sustainable space. In his current role as director of sustainability, Isaiah manages a team responsible for documenting client sustainability requirements and goals. He also leads HITT’s environmental sustainability efforts including waste reduction and the company’s overall carbon neutrality plans. Isaiah has a passion for working to meet sustainable construction goals and is happy to see continued growth towards more sustainable design and construction practices in the industry.

Diana Darling

The Architect’s Newspaper

Darling is CEO, creative director, and co-founder of The Architect’s Newspaper, celebrating its 20th year. The A|N media company consists of print and digital publications covering architecture and design news, as well as the Facades+ and TECH+ conferences. As A|N’s publisher, Darling won the AIA National Collaboration Award, Grassroots Preservation Award, and ASLA NY’s President’s Award. She began her publishing career as director of print production for The Gap’s European markets. She holds a BS from The University of Texas at Austin.