Agenda

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  Dionne Darling
  VP, Brand Partnerships
  Architect's Newspaper

  Dionne Darling

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  Dionne Darling has been with The A|N Media Group for over six years. As A|N’s Associate Publisher, she manages A|N’s Texas headquarters and handles accounts in the West, Southwest and Europe territories. Dionne has over 28 years of direct B2B sales, management and business development experience.

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  Co-Chair
  Andrew Molchany, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C
  Project Architect
  NBBJ

  Andrew Molchany, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C

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  Andrew believes the realization of transformational design involves a rigorous attention to the continuity and execution of ideas. Throughout his 25 year career, Andrew has showcased through multiple award-winning projects like the Amazon Spheres and Tencent Headquarters his passion for creating environments that are sustainable, enduring and responsive to the communities in which they reside. Most recently, he has placed a special focus on the integrated design-build and delivery of projects for commercial, corporate and civic clients. With a portfolio including a long list of LEED-certified projects, Andrew consistently plays a critical role in the realization of high-performance exterior façades and the implementation of substantial sustainable design features.

Leaders from Perkins&Will will discuss two adaptive reuse & renewal projects. In Anchorage, Alaska, a 50 year old building damaged by an earthquake is being reimagined as an iconic tower inspired by ice and light. The high-performance shell and core renovation will fortify and expand the structure while enhancing a civic corner. In Seattle, a new seven-story office tower was added to the historic Federal Reserve Building, whose structure was renovated to meet current seismic requirements and energy codes.

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  Bill Xu
  Senior Associate
  Perkins&Will

  Bill Xu

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  Bill is a Senior Associate at Perkins&Will with 19 years of experience. His innovative design and successful projects across many market sectors include Commercial, Civic and Culture, Science and Technology, Higher Education, Convention Centers, and Mixed-Use. He is a passionate designer and consensus builder, who led teams on complex projects ranging from single building to multi-million square feet multi-building campuses. He has a keen awareness of the clients’ vision and needs and maintains successful client relationships for repeat business.

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  Louis Peiser, LEED AP BD+C
  Architect
  Perkins&Will

  Louis Peiser, LEED AP BD+C

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  Louis (pronounced Lew-iz) is an architect in the Seattle office of Perkins&Will and is currently managing construction administration for the 601 W 5th Ave project. During design and construction he has overseen the environmental analysis of the project as well.

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  Erik Mott
  Design Director
  Perkins&Will

  Erik Mott

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  Erik is a creative leader who became an architect to pursue his lifelong interests in both art and science. He leads the design process with a thoughtful approach to the creation of holistically conceived and innovative buildings that positively transform their context, enhance human experience, and create lasting value.

  Erik views architecture as an art with the potential to make a profound impact on people’s lives through the creation of well-conceived buildings, cities, and environments. He strives to improve the built environment through a meaningful fusion of form and function in each project.

  Erik’s clients enjoy his thoughtful creative approach and collaborative, engaging thought leadership. His work has received numerous awards for design quality.

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  Peter Brunner
  Senior Designer
  Perkins&Will

  Peter Brunner

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  Peter is a Senior Project Designer/Project Architect with 40 years of experience practicing out of Seattle and a witness to Seattle’s evolution. With experience crossing many typologies and ranging in scale from single-family residential to high-rise development, he approaches practicing architecture as a generalist. Peter mentors and lends a hand across all Seattle Studio Perkins&Will projects.

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  Medgar Marceau
  Principal
  Morrison Hershfield

  Medgar Marceau

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  Medgar Marceau joined Morrison Hershfield in 2008 with a unique mix of building envelope, energy modeling and life cycle assessment experience. In addition to Medgar’s building science expertise, he has extensive experience in whole building energy simulation, building envelope systems, life-cycle assessment (LCA) and material science including infrared thermographic analysis, modeling of air and moisture transfer through envelope systems, air leakage, and mass transfer. He is an expert on concrete structures and material properties of concrete and has conducted numerous investigations on concrete failure. Medgar has authored and co-authored dozens of publications on the subjects of life-cycle assessment, commercial and residential energy use, and sustainability. Medgar’s sustainability goal is to help designers increase building durability and reduce building energy consumption.

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  Co-Chair
  Andrew Molchany, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C
  Project Architect
  NBBJ

  Andrew Molchany, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C

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  Andrew believes the realization of transformational design involves a rigorous attention to the continuity and execution of ideas. Throughout his 25 year career, Andrew has showcased through multiple award-winning projects like the Amazon Spheres and Tencent Headquarters his passion for creating environments that are sustainable, enduring and responsive to the communities in which they reside. Most recently, he has placed a special focus on the integrated design-build and delivery of projects for commercial, corporate and civic clients. With a portfolio including a long list of LEED-certified projects, Andrew consistently plays a critical role in the realization of high-performance exterior façades and the implementation of substantial sustainable design features.

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  Thomas Feliciano
  District Sales Manager
  CENTRIA

  Thomas Feliciano

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  Thomas Feliciano has worked in the building construction industry for over 10 years. He has tremendous experience in sales management, recruiting sales executives, personal sales production, and key account management.

  Thomas’s previous roles have included Senior Consultant for TCMS, President and CEO of MAXIS Consulting Group. He has built sales organizations from the ground up or take existing teams to the next level.

  Thomas is currently the District Sales Manager for CENTRIA in the Pacific North-West Region (A division of NUCOR – NIPG). In his current role Thomas promotes and develops specifications for CENTRIA to Architects, Owners, and Contractors. He manages the distribution networks sale of CENTRIA for all nine of his Distribution / Dealer Partners. Lastly, Thomas develops promotional strategies to have CENTRIA products and systems incorporated on both new and retrofitted construction throughout the Alaska, Western Canada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana Markets.

This roundtable with leading building materials manufacturers will discuss the advanced materials newly available and just around the corner. Learn how architect’s can work together with their suppliers to build with the latest, most up-to-date technologies and projects, and hear what’s next for the industry.

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  Earl Mercado
  Project Manager
  EQUITONE

  Earl Mercado

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  Michael Ross
  Senior Technical Advisor
  FERO

  Michael Ross

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  Michael oversees the design of effective and innovative structural and architectural FERO solutions for a variety of projects. He has an MSc in Structural Engineering, specializing in concrete masonry, and has over 10 years of experience in the field of structural consulting. The combination of his education and his consulting roles enable him to understand the needs of architects and engineers working with FERO products and how to help them achieve their design goals.

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  Michael Zanotelli
  Facade & Curtain Wall Specialist - Western US & Canada
  STI Specified Technologies

  Michael Zanotelli

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  Michael has over 20 years of real-world experience on many of largest, high profile projects throughout the Western United States. Through his knowledge and expertise, Michael developed a solid reputation working closely with inspectors, glazing contractors, and curtain wall consultants as a trusted resource on a wide range of curtain wall projects.
  Michael is committed to ensure your project stays on budget and gets done right the first time from conception to close out. Prior to his role as Façade and Curtain Wall Specialist for the Western US and Canada, Michael was the Western United States and Hawaii Regional Manager.

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  Moderator
  Marty Wood
  Program Director
  The Architect's Newspaper

  Marty Wood

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  Marty Wood is the Program Director for The Architect’s Newspaper’s Facades+ Conferences and other AN events and initiatives that bring together AEC professionals to share their stories, expertise, and projects. As a writer, he’s contributed to The Architect’s Newspaper, Metropolis, and other design publications. He is also a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute. Wood has a BA in Communications from San Francisco State University and a M.S. from Columbia University GSAPP.

Christopher Meek and Teresa Moroseos of the University of Washington’s Integrated Design Lab will discuss the energy question as it relates to the design process through advancements in energy modelling, daylighting, and the path to more climate responsive and high-performing buildings

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  Christopher Meek, FAIA
  Professor of Architecture
  University of Washington

  Christopher Meek, FAIA

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  Christopher Meek, FAIA is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington and a registered architect. He is Director of the Integrated Design Lab (IDL) at the University’s College of Built Environments. In this role, he consults with design teams in the Pacific Northwest and nationally with a focus on building energy performance, daylighting, visual comfort, electric lighting, and climate responsive design. Mr. Meek teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses on building design, daylighting, electric lighting, and indoor environmental quality at the UW Department of Architecture. He is the author of two books on daylighting design and numerous academic and industry publications.

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  Teresa Moroseos
  Post-Doctoral Scholar
  University of Washington

  Teresa Moroseos

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  Teresa Moroseos is a Post-Doctoral Scholar and Research Analyst at the Integrated Design Lab (IDL) in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. In this role, she provides daylighting and energy performance analysis for projects throughout the United States. She collaborates with design teams to find solutions that respond to the environment and maintain design intent, determines appropriate metrics of evaluation, and performs daylight and energy simulations. Teresa has a background in engineering, architecture, and academics, and enjoys combining the computational aspect of daylight and energy analysis with the qualitative aspect of design in her work. Prior to working at the IDL, she worked as a designer at a Seattle architecture office, where she worked on civic buildings from schematic design to construction administration.

Join experts from McKinstry, RDH Building Science, & Mithun in a conversation featuring strategies for facade optimization using advanced modelling techniques. Through a series of case studies, including 840 Spokane and Catalyst, this panel will cover tools for studying shading, daylighting, building performance, and thermal comfort, with environmental concerns like material selection and embodied carbon at the forefront of facade considerations even at early stages of design.

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  Tanvi Dhar
  Lead Building Performance Analyst
  McKinstry

  Tanvi Dhar

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  Tanvi is the Lead Building Performance Analyst at McKinstry. With a background in architecture and 8-years of experience in the field of building science, she has holistically impacted projects by providing evidence-based design for daylighting, energy efficient HVAC systems and decarbonization strategies. She is involved from the project inception to post occupancy indoor environment quality assessment for projects ranging from higher-ed, labs, and high-tech offices. She holds a Master’s in Building Science from the University of Oregon where she was a Graduate Research Assistant at the High-Performance Environments Lab that generates information for the use in green building research and practices. She is a WELL & RESET accredited professional. She also serves as the Governor for the ASHRAE Puget Sound Chapter.

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  Claire McConnell
  Associate
  Mithun

  Claire McConnell

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  Claire is a building performance modeler and analyst with a passion for deep green building design. Her holistic approach to sustainability leverages climate-based passive and active building strategies, whole-building energy simulation, daylighting analysis, thermal comfort analysis, and whole-building life-cycle assessment. Her Masters in Sustainable Architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology and undergraduate background in civil engineering give her strong problem-solving capabilities and a unique perspective on the architecture industry. At Mithun, Claire works collaboratively across architectural and engineering disciplines to optimize project goals and elevate sustainability through building performance simulation, analysis, and evidence-based decision making. Her knowledge of the intricacies of sustainability metrics and expertise in adapting scientific tools and methodologies to project parameters make her a valuable asset to any team.

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  Kyle Silliker, PE
  Principal Building Science Specialist
  RDH

  Kyle Silliker, PE

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  Kyle leads our New Buildings group, and is the Co-Regional Manager of the Seattle office. A proponent of quality assurance and client satisfaction, Kyle is sought out by developers and architects to assess the practicality and performance of their concepts. On both the West and East Coasts of North America, he consults on energy code compliance and energy retrofit services. Kyle is also a member of the Seattle Building Envelope Council.

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  Moderator
  Anne Yong, AIA, NCARB, LEED GA
  Project Architect
  NBBJ

  Anne Yong, AIA, NCARB, LEED GA

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  Coupling a strong technical background with rigorous creative investigation, Anne strives to bring designs to life in a creative, innovative and thoughtfully detailed manner. An extraordinarily versatile architect and skilled technical designer, Anne is known for her analytical problem-solving skills and cohesive leadership style. She possesses more than 15 years of experience with projects that vary widely in scale, phases, typology, and style. Her diverse portfolio is rooted in technical excellence and highly detailed produced work. With a high level of Revit expertise, Anne is a firm resource and mentor for exterior facades, Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD).

The high rise is essential to cities, enhancing efficiencies by maximizing space on tight urban sites, while providing a unique presence on the skyline. However, high rise towers can isolate inhabitants, neglect the streetscape, and disconnect people from nature. At the same time, bringing these buildings online can be inefficient and unsustainable, with designs that don’t effectively address users’s needs. How can the next frontier of high rise towers address these issues through sustainable and high performance design, creating buildings that better speak to community, client, and user preferences?

This session will explore key insights from the creation of three innovative towers in the Puget Sound region designed by NBBJ: Rainier Square in Seattle’s Central Business District, Bellevue 600 in Bellevue, and The Net in downtown Seattle. Design leaders will share takeaways from each project’s development through the lens of customization and collaboration. They will examine how each project is tailored to clients’ and users’ unique needs, and how close partnerships with consultants and contractors drove sustainable facade and structural innovations to create environments that enhance wellness, connection and community.

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  Mindy Levine-Archer, AIA
  Partner | Firmwide Design Leader
  NBBJ

  Mindy Levine-Archer, AIA

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  Mindy Levine-Archer is a design leader for NBBJ’s commercial, corporate and civic practices in the Puget Sound region. She works closely with clients to understand their mission, vision and goals, and then to layer those over the potentials and constraints of a given site to create inspiring environments. Throughout her 20 years at NBBJ, Mindy has led complex, large-scale projects ranging from high-rise commercial office towers, to build-to-suit headquarters, to large civic complexes integrated into surrounding neighborhoods. Recent projects she has led from the early conceptual design phase through building completion include the City Center Plaza and GIX in Bellevue; she is currently spearheading work for the Spring District and Rainier Square.

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  Matthew Somerton, AIA, LEED AP
  Partner, Global Cultural and Civic Practice Leader
  NBBJ

  Matthew Somerton, AIA, LEED AP

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  Matthew Somerton is a Partner for NBBJ’s Seattle’s corporate, commercial and civic design studio. Since joining the firm 18 years ago, he has worked across scales, from urban design and master planning to architecture and interior design. He has worked extensively with the Pacific Northwest’s best developers and for corporate clients as diverse as Boeing, Amgen, Novartis, Google, and Amazon. In 2011, his design leadership produced NBBJ’s award-winning United States Courthouse at Bakersfield. Matthew is a member of the Board of Directors at the Seattle Architecture Foundation, an organization committed to expanding public engagement with the world of design.

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  Justin Cochran
  Senior Associate
  NBBJ

  Justin Cochran

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  Justin designs world-class workplace, mixed-use and hospitality projects that advance client goals and benefit the greater community. A creative designer with an international portfolio, Justin is known for designing extraordinarily customized environments by keeping an organization’s culture and business drivers at the heart of any project. A versatile team leader and effective project manager, Justin has the organizational and technical aptitude to drive and deliver projects on a variety of scales, from design to construction phases. Over the past 17 years, his focus on budget-conscious solutions includes sustainable design and the use of materials that have yielded LEED Gold and Platinum facilities across North America.

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  Moderator
  Bob Sheh, AIA
  Principal
  NBBJ

  Bob Sheh, AIA

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  With more than 20 years of experience in architecture and construction, Bob has worked with a variety of Seattle corporate and commercial developers, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Bob considers sustainability fundamental to good design and his projects have achieved award-winning recognition, such as the largest LEED Platinum non-profit in 2011 with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a LEED Gold parking garage at Seattle Center’s 5th Avenue. His focus is to make beautiful, elegant environments that perform efficiently and effectively to benefit those who occupy them.

Seattle’s progressive building code is driving change in building envelope design and Duane Jonlin leads a process that is making Seattle one of the most forward thinking municipalities for building performance and reducing embodied carbon. Learn more about the specific details and unique opportunities in the evolution of the code.

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  Duane Jonlin
  Energy Code and Energy Conservation Advisor
  City of Seattle, Department of Construction and Inspections

  Duane Jonlin

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  Duane Jonlin is the “Energy Code and Energy Conservation Advisor” for Seattle’s Department of Construction and Inspections, and for eight years chaired the Energy Code Technical Advisory Group for the Washington State Building Code Council. At the national level, he is a voting member of both the ASHRAE 90.1 Committee and the ICC Commercial Energy Code Committee, and serves on several national advisory committees. Prior to taking his position at the City of Seattle, Duane was a principal at NBBJ, with 30 years’ experience designing complex projects as a technical architect. He is a featured speaker nationally on issues of energy efficiency and energy regulations, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

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  Nick McDaniel, LEED AP
  Senior Associate Lead Designer
  NBBJ

  Nick McDaniel, LEED AP

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  Nick McDaniel has over 18 years of experience in architecture and has designed everything from Libraries to Student Housing. Previously a high school physics teacher, he seeks to understand the underlying principles of beautiful buildings by combining the art of design with the calculus of physics in his design process. Nick’s unique blend of talents gives him a strong understanding of rigorous creativity and sustainability in every project he undertakes.

  Nick’s experience and passion has been in the delivery of buildings for the public good. Whether an urban plaza, a public transportation station, or a university teaching lab, he is a veteran of the public process and the good that excellence in design can bring to the urban experience.

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  Dionne Darling
  VP, Brand Partnerships
  Architect's Newspaper

  Dionne Darling

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  Dionne Darling has been with The A|N Media Group for over six years. As A|N’s Associate Publisher, she manages A|N’s Texas headquarters and handles accounts in the West, Southwest and Europe territories. Dionne has over 28 years of direct B2B sales, management and business development experience.

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  Co-Chair
  Andrew Molchany, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C
  Project Architect
  NBBJ

  Andrew Molchany, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C

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  Andrew believes the realization of transformational design involves a rigorous attention to the continuity and execution of ideas. Throughout his 25 year career, Andrew has showcased through multiple award-winning projects like the Amazon Spheres and Tencent Headquarters his passion for creating environments that are sustainable, enduring and responsive to the communities in which they reside. Most recently, he has placed a special focus on the integrated design-build and delivery of projects for commercial, corporate and civic clients. With a portfolio including a long list of LEED-certified projects, Andrew consistently plays a critical role in the realization of high-performance exterior façades and the implementation of substantial sustainable design features.