Crabtree fosters design excellence focused on positive impacts for the greater social, cultural, and community value through a collaborative research based process is my passion. He currently serves as a Corporate, Commercial, and Civic Practice and Design Leader for Perkins + Will – NC. Previously a Design Director for Gensler and Little, my design leadership experience with leading global design firms, as well as, regional modern leadership at ADG (Architects Design Group) has provided a foundation of over 17 years of Award Winning Design Experience that spans Workplace, Corporate Headquarters, Urban Mixed Use, Urban Design, Public Safety Headquarters, Municipal Planning, Transit, and other Health and Community project types, in addition to a construction background.

Jacob has over ten years of professional experience on projects of a wide range of scales. He has a gift for motivating design teams in the process of translating conceptual ideas into reality from schematics through construction. He is a LEED Accredited Professional with the United States Green Build Council and a member of the American Institute of Architects. Jacob has influenced archimania’s design process through analyses of energy performance data. His efforts to push projects toward the highest sustainability performance have led the firm to make the AIA 2030 Commitment, a framework to help firms evaluate the impact of project design on energy efficiency, and has pushed archimania’s use of energy modeling on the front end of design and to conduct post-occupancy and energy data analysis.

Crabtree fosters design excellence focused on positive impacts for the greater social, cultural, and community value through a collaborative research based process is my passion. He currently serves as a Corporate, Commercial, and Civic Practice and Design Leader for Perkins + Will – NC. Previously a Design Director for Gensler and Little, my design leadership experience with leading global design firms, as well as, regional modern leadership at ADG (Architects Design Group) has provided a foundation of over 17 years of Award Winning Design Experience that spans Workplace, Corporate Headquarters, Urban Mixed Use, Urban Design, Public Safety Headquarters, Municipal Planning, Transit, and other Health and Community project types, in addition to a construction background.

Ajla Aksamija, PhD, LEED AP BD+C, CDT is an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Building Technology Researcher/Associate at Perkins&Will. Her research expertise includes building science and sustainable design, high-performance buildings, emerging building technologies, digital design and representations, and innovations in architecture. Dr. Aksamija formerly directed Perkins&Will’s Building Technology Laboratory, one of the first practice-driven research laboratories focusing on advanced building technologies, high-performance buildings, computational design, and building facades. She has taught architectural design studios, advanced environmental building design, comprehensive studios and seminars. She has worked on developing building analysis and modeling applications, implementation of novel materials in architectural design, development of computational models, and has collaborated with researchers from material science, civil and environmental engineering and computational design. Dr. Aksamija has contributed to several books, and has published over seventy research articles and invited papers. She has presented at various national and international conferences, and is a frequent speaker at industry-based, scientific and academic conferences. She is the co-founder and editor of the Perkins&Will Research Journal.

Burwell has worked on complex building enclosure projects both in the US and throughout East Asia from concept through construction. Prior to joining WPM, he was an Associate and team leader for Ove Arup & Partners Facade Engineering practice, Hong Kong. Past projects include: the Jockey Club Innovation Tower with Zaha Hadid Architects, Museum Plus with Herzog & de Meuron, and Terminal 3 at Taoyuan International Airport,Taipei, with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Current projects include: two high-rise towers in Atlanta, a large-scale aviation project in NYC, and an 18,000-seat performance venue in Las Vegas. Burwell has served as a guest critic at Columbia University, the Hong Kong University Graduate School of Architecture and has lectured at the City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Member of the Society of Facade Engineering as well as the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Crabtree fosters design excellence focused on positive impacts for the greater social, cultural, and community value through a collaborative research based process is my passion. He currently serves as a Corporate, Commercial, and Civic Practice and Design Leader for Perkins + Will – NC. Previously a Design Director for Gensler and Little, my design leadership experience with leading global design firms, as well as, regional modern leadership at ADG (Architects Design Group) has provided a foundation of over 17 years of Award Winning Design Experience that spans Workplace, Corporate Headquarters, Urban Mixed Use, Urban Design, Public Safety Headquarters, Municipal Planning, Transit, and other Health and Community project types, in addition to a construction background.

Kyoung Hee Kim, PhD AIA, is Director of the Integrated Design Research Lab (IDRL) and an Associate Professor of the School of Architecture (SoA) at UNC Charlotte. Kim has more than 10 years of experience in the design, engineering, full-scale prototyping, and real world implementation of high-performance building enclosures in the industry and academic institutions. She is a practicing licensed architect in North Carolina.

As a Senior Building Science Specialist, Michael has comprehensive experience leading New Buildings and Existing Buildings projects at RDH. His meticulous and detail-oriented approach can be attributed to his knowledge of building science and his industry experience.

Along with applying his building science focus to assess the relationships between sustainable building, building durability, and building codes, Michael is also the Co-Regional Manager of RDH’s Seattle office.

His past achievements include being a member of the City of Seattle Green Building Team that developed Seattle’s ground-breaking Sustainable Building Policy—the first municipal policy of its kind to adopt the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System.

Michael’s diverse career path, as well as his knowledge of the Washington and Seattle building, mechanical, and energy codes, is an asset to our team and clients.

Along with being an LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP), he also holds memberships with the National Institute of Building Science and the Seattle Building Enclosure Council.