Tom is a principal and design leader at Leers Weinzapfel Associates, recipient of the national AIA Firm Award and among ARCHITECT magazine’s Top 50 firms in the US since 2015. His projects include the John W. Olver Design Building at UMass Amherst, Adohi Hall for the University of Arkansas, and the Center for Engineering, Innovation & Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He designs buildings to be welcoming, transparent, and sustainable, reflecting our values of diversity, democracy, and care for our environment. He is a national leader in mass timber design in both practice and education and has worked closely with researchers and structural engineers to gain mastery over this “new/old” technology. His designs at UMass Amherst and the University of Arkansas are pioneering works of mass timber architecture in the country. Over the past five years, he has been invited to speak on this emerging subject at conferences and seminars world-wide including Canada, Costa Rica, Korea, and the United States. Tom also teaches design studios focusing on mass timber and has juried design reviews throughout the country.