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Todd
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Mr.
Alexander is president of Continental Building
Systems and has worked in the industry for over 20
years.
He
holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from
The Ohio State University and is a LEED Accredited
Professional.
Mr.
Alexander serves on the board of directors for the
Builders Exchange of Central Ohio where he has
also served on the Cornerstone Review Committee
and as a Safety Awards Judge. He is a member of
the task force developing the initiative to Build
an Environment for Success Together (BEST). He has
also served as the board liaison for the BX
Awards, Education and Safety departments. He is
also serving on the Partners in Construction Task
Force, a local initiative of ASA.
Alexander
also helped create the Tyler Ludwig Leadership
Award scholarship fund which is administered by
the Builders Exchange Foundation. He is also a
member of the St. Edwards Church finance
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Eric A. Berg, Esq.
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Mr.
Berg is a
partner in the law firm of DLA Piper in Chicago,
Illinois, where he focuses his practice on
construction law, in both transactional and
litigation work.
As
a litigator, Mr. Berg has represented contractors,
subcontractors, owners, architects, engineers, and
lenders. His transactional work includes drafting
and negotiating contracts for the design,
construction, rehabilitation, and construction
management of hotels, hospitals, office buildings,
apartment buildings, private residences, retail
stores, factories, and warehouses.
Mr.
Berg holds membership in the American Bar
Association Forum on the Construction Industry,
the Chicago Bar Association, and is a widely
published author and speaker in the field of
construction law. In 2007, Mr. Berg was ranked by
his peers and clients as a leader in his field in Chambers
USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Power Construction, eBay, and Cisco Systems are
among his clients. |
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Bruce D'Agostino, CAE
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Mr.
D’Agostino is President & CEO of the
Construction Management Association of America (CMAA)
in McLean, VA. CMAA is North America’s only
organization dedicated exclusively to the
interests of professional program and construction
management.
During
Mr. D’Agostino's tenure, the Association has
increased its membership from less than 1,000 in
1999 to more than 4,500, and seen the number of
certified construction managers increase from 78
to almost 1,000. Mr.
D’Agostino has created the CMAA University with
professional development programs and online
education to help construction managers increase
their professional knowledge. He has also
established a government affairs department to
protect and advocate on behalf of members.
Mr.
D’Agostino has written extensively on
association management and construction-related
topics for many publications and newsletters,
including Association Management, Executive
Update, Engineering News Record, and
the Construction Business Review.
He
received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola
College in Baltimore, and received graduate
certificates in association management from the
University of Delaware and business management
from The American University in Washington DC.
Mr.
D’Agostino earned his certified association
executive designation (CAE) from the American
Society of Association Executives and is
accredited by the Public Relations Society of
America. He serves on the Board of Directors of
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Patrick Duffy
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Mr.
Duffy has been managing projects at Tampa Electric
Company for eight years and is currently
responsible for an annual program of maintenance
capital and plant improvement projects of $50MM to
$100MM.
Before joining Tampa Electric, he spent 10
years with a large engineering and construction
firm working primarily for the process
industries.
Mr.
Duffy has been active with Construction Users
Roundtable (CURT) since 2002 and is currently the
chairman of CURT's Education and Implementation
Committee.
He is also the Past President of the
Florida Construction Users Roundtable (FCURT). |
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Luke Faulkner
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Mr.
Faulkner is the
Director of IT Initiatives for the American
Institute of Steel Construction where he focuses
on BIM implementation and eCommerce for the
structural steel industry. Prior to Working for
AISC, Mr. Faulkner was a project manager/estimator
in the mechanical contracting industry where he
served on the Technology, Management Methods, and
Government Affairs Committees of the local
contracting association.
Mr. Faulkner
received a bachelor of science in Building
Construction Technology from Purdue University. |
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Larry Filson, P.E.
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Mr.
Filson is the Engineering Director at Walbridge
Aldinger. He is
a seasoned professional with over 25 years of
experience related to design and construction of
industrial and commercial facilities. Mr. Filson
is responsible for developing new applications to
link the BIM model to commissioning and other
databases. Mr.
Filson will explain how BIM is a lean
construction tool that is used for design
decision-making, the production of high-quality
construction documents, predicting performance,
cost-estimating, and construction planning.
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Anthonio
C. Fiore, Esq.
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Mr. Fiore is the Director of Labor and Human Resources
Policy for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and has
been a member of the Ohio Chamber’s Governmental
Affairs Team since October of 1999. He is responsible for lobbying members of
the Ohio General Assembly, the Governor, and
Ohio’s Congressional Delegation in support of
issues that foster a competitive climate in Ohio
favorable to economic growth. He also negotiates with administrative
agencies to resolve issues that are of concern to
the Chamber’s membership.
His
specific areas of concentration include workers’
compensation, unemployment compensation,
employment law, OSHA regulations, labor relations,
immigration, insurance, tort reform and other
general human resource issues. Mr. Fiore speaks to several local chambers
and business organizations each year and serves as
the Chamber’s point person in responding to
print, radio and television media inquiries from
local, state and national outlets regarding the
aforementioned issues.
In
addition to his lobbying duties, he serves as the
staff liaison for the Chamber’s Workers’
Compensation, Employment Law, and Education &
Workforce Development Committees. He assists the committees in performing
their mission, which includes forming the policy
the Chamber takes on legislation, and developing
solutions for long and short-term problems.
Tony also serves as Ohio’s liaison to the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce on labor, employment and
legal reform issues.
Mr.
Fiore previously worked for the Ohio Bureau of
Workers’ Compensation as the executive assistant
to BWC Administrator/CEO Jim Conrad, as well as,
serving as an aide to both Senator Doug White and
Senator Nancy Chiles Dix.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business
Administration degree from The Ohio State
University where he majored in International
Business and minored in Italian. Mr. Fiore
obtained his Juris
Doctorate Degree from Capital University Law
School. He
is a member of the Ohio and Federal Bar.
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Doug Gatlin
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Mr.
Gatlin is the Director of National Accounts for
the US Green Building Council.
In this capacity he oversees USGBC’s
account management team and provides direct
outreach and support to large commercial
developers, retailers, building owners and others
pursuing LEED across their portfolios.
Mr. Gatlin joined
USGBC in 2006 as Director of LEED for Existing
Buildings and the Council’s new Portfolio
Initiative, and has 15 years of experience in
energy and environmental policy and has worked on
climate change response strategies and voluntary
pollution prevention programs for most of his
career.
Prior to joining
the Council, Mr. Gatlin worked for nearly 10 years
at US EPA, where he served as a manager for ENERGY
STAR Commercial Buildings program. Prior to
joining EPA, Mr. Gatlin was a project manager at
the Washington, DC based Climate Institute, where
he managed the Energy Smart Cities campaign and
supported US Department of Energy in their launch
of the Rebuild America program.
Mr. Gatlin has
authored papers on climate change response, energy
efficiency program design, and energy project
financing. He
holds a Bachelors in Political Science from Duke
University and a Masters in Public Policy from
Georgetown.
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Donald W. Gregory
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Mr.
Gregory currently serves as general counsel to the
American Subcontractors Association (“ASA”),
and to several international construction trade
associations. A director with the law firm of
Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter in Columbus,
Ohio, Mr. Gregory chairs the firm’s Litigation
and Construction Law areas.
He
has been actively involved as a third party
neutral and advocate in ADR procedures, including
mediation and arbitration, and currently serves on
the AAA “Blue Ribbon Panel” of arbitrators for
complex construction disputes.
Mr.
Gregory initiated the legislation that resulted in
Ohio’s New Mechanic’s Lien law and drafted
Ohio’s first Prompt Payment Act, which has
become a model for several other states.
He also helped negotiate, draft and pass
Ohio’s Fairness
in Construction Contracting Act.
The
only Central Ohio attorney named to Business
First’s “Who’s Who in Construction,
Architecture and Engineering,” Mr. Gregory is
regularly recognized as one of America’s Leading
Business (Construction) Lawyers by Chambers USA,
Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who in
International Construction Lawyers, and other
publications.
Mr.
Gregory graduated cum laude from Miami University
and received his law degree from The Ohio State
University.
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Donald
B. Leach, Jr., Esq.
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Mr.
Leach is a partner with the law firm of
Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP in
Columbus where he is a member and past-chair of
the Real Estate and Construction Practice Group.
He served as managing partner of the
Columbus office for nine years and on the firm’s
Board of Managers for six years.
Mr.
Leach’s practice focus is on construction law.
He is a past chair of the Construction Law
Committee of the Columbus Bar Association and was
the 1996 President of the Builders Exchange of
Central Ohio. He
is the first practicing attorney to ever serve in
the latter capacity and was the 2003 recipient of
the BX Cornerstone Award, which recognizes a
construction professional whose civic and industry
contributions have made a positive impact on the
construction industry and central Ohio community.
During
the last 25 years Mr. Leach has been actively
involved in the representation of owners, lenders,
contractors, subcontractors and suppliers in
construction contracting and dispute related
matters. He
authored the chapter on mechanics’ liens in Baldwin’s
Ohio Practice: Ohio Real Estate Law
(West 2003).
He
holds a Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV
(indicating very high to pre-eminent legal ability
and very high ethical standards as established by
confidential opinions from members of the Bar) and
is listed in The
Best Lawyers in America® (construction and
real estate), Chamber’s
USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers
(construction) and in Ohio
Super Lawyers™ by Law & Politics, Inc.
as recognized by his peers (construction and in
2004 as one of the Top 50 lawyers in Columbus).
Mr. Leach also serves as a member of the
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John Linenberg, P.E.
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Mr.
Linenberg is Senior Engineering Manager at
Walbridge Aldinger. He is an experienced
professional with over 15 years of design and
construction experience for major engineering /
construction projects. He incorporates his
professional experience as a Project / Engineering
Manager on industrial projects for a national
Architectural and Engineering organization in his
current position at Walbridge.
Mr.
Linenberg is the Committee Chair for the Walbridge
Aldinger BIM initiative. He also co-authored the
AGC publication The Contractors’ Guide to
BIM. |
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Teresa Magnus, CPA
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Ms. Magnus is the Construction
Contract Strategy Manager for the Southern
Company, one of the largest generators of
electricity in the nation, serving both regulated
and competitive markets across the southeastern
United States, with more than 41,000 megawatts of
electric generating capacity.
Ms. Magus’s career has been
focused on planning and management of major
construction programs and the prevention, as well
as, resolution of complex claims. She has also
served as a consultant with both Price Waterhouse
and Arthur Andersen in dispute resolution
services, focusing primarily on large, complex
construction disputes for contractors,
subcontractors, and owners.
Currently enrolled in the Juris
Doctorate program at Samford University Cumberland
School of Law, Ms. Magnus earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in Accountancy from Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio. She is a CPA licensed
in Ohio, and is a member of the Construction Users
Roundtable (CURT), the National Association of
Women in Construction (NAWIC), and the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). |
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Robert E. Middlebrooks,
AIA
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Mr. Middlebrooks is an
architect with over 25 years
design experience, and a former principal with
Clark Nexsen, a Virginia based 360 person
architectural–engineering firm, having lead
design projects worldwide, including collaborative
design-build and developer lead integrated
projects. Mr. Middlebrooks also served as the
principal for all of the firm’s digital design
efforts and oversaw the implementation of full
discipline Building Information Modeling (BIM)
within the firm. Having served on the AIA National
Board of Directors, he has been involved in
various Integrated Project Delivery task groups
including currently on the AIA Contract Documents
Committee, in the task group that developed the
Electronic Protocol Documents published in 2007,
and is currently developing Integrated Project
Delivery (IPD) Contracts. Mr. Middlebrooks now
serves as an Industry Programs Manager with
Autodesk’s AEC Solutions specializing in BIM,
IPD adoption and Industry Relations. |
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Jack Mumma, J.D.
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Mr.
Mumma is on the board of directors of the
Construction Owners Association of America, Inc. (COAA),
where he currently serves as president.
Since
1996, Mr. Mumma has been the Construction Contract
Administrator for Michigan State University. His
responsibilities include procurement and contract
administration of major construction and design
projects, implementation and process definition of
the University’s capital projects management
information system, and process
improvement/quality for the planning, design and
construction processes at MSU. Mr. Mumma teaches
at MSU’s School of Planning, Design and
Construction. Prior to joining to MSU, he
was a contracting officer for the Office of Naval
Research. Mr. Mumma holds a JD from DePaul
University in Chicago, and Bachelors Degree in
Philosophy from St. Mary’s of the Barrens in
Perryville, MO. |
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E. Colette Nelson
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Ms.
Nelson is executive vice president of the American
Subcontractors Association, Inc. (ASA), a national
association representing more than 5,000
subcontractors in all the construction trades,
where she manages all facets of the association’s
membership, government and industry relations,
public relations, education, and member and
chapter services.
During
her tenure with ASA, Ms. Nelson has been actively
involved in most of the major issues impacting the
construction industry, including small business
development, government procurement,
labor-management relations and taxes. She has
served as the lead industry representative on the
key issues of prompt payment and bonding of
construction contractors and subcontractors.
Ms. Nelson serves
on the board of directors of the Foundation of the
American Subcontractors Association, the American
Council for Construction Education and the Small
Business Legislative Council, for which she is a
past chair. She also has served as a director for
the American Society of Association Executives and
the American Institute of Constructors Constructor
Certification Commission.
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Brian Perlberg, Esq.
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Mr.
Perlberg is Senior Counsel, Construction Law &
Contract Documents at the Associated General
Contractors of America (AGC).
He oversees all aspects of the new
industry-endorsed ConsensusDOCS contract
documents. He also serves as AGC staff
representative regarding AIA and EJCDC contracts.
Previously, Mr. Perlberg served as General Counsel
and Director of Government Affairs for the
Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA).
Mr. Perlberg
graduated from the University of Maryland School
of Law and the University of Maryland Honors
Program, College Park, and is a member of the bar
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Gregory L. Sizemore
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Mr.
Sizemore is the Executive Vice President of The
Construction Users Roundtable and has over twenty
years of construction industry and association
management experience.
He served for three years as the Director
for Labor Relations at the Associated General
Contractor’s and Allied Construction Industries
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
For eighteen years, Mr. Sizemore was the
Executive Director of the Construction Owners
Association of the Tri-State (COATS) in
Cincinnati, OH, which is recognized as one of the
leading local user councils in the country.
In
1989, Mr. Sizemore started Sizemore & Company,
LLC, a construction industry association
management and consulting firm. He serves on
various industry and civic boards including the
University of Cincinnati’s Industrial Advisory
Council, the Advisory Committee to the Albany
Technical College and the West Virginia
Construction Coalition Conference, and is an
adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati,
where he teaches construction law and leadership
and decision making classes.
Mr.
Sizemore holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics
and a Master of Science in Industrial and Labor
Relations from the University of Cincinnati. He
earned his Juris Doctor from The Northern Kentucky
University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law and is
a licensed attorney in the State of Ohio.
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William Byrd Spencer
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Mr.
Spencer is the chief lobbyist for Associated
Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC), a national
trade association representing more than 24,000
firms primarily from the commercial and industrial
sectors of the industry.
Mr.
Spencer joined ABC's Government Affairs staff in
February 1989 after serving in the Legal and Finance
Departments of George Bush's Presidential Campaign
and on the Presidential Transition Team. He oversees
a staff of 24 and coordinates ABC’s government
affairs activities and policy including legislative,
political, and legal and regulatory affairs. He
counsels Members of Congress and the Bush
Administration on a variety of issues, is a frequent
guest on radio talk shows across the country and is
quoted in many periodicals.
Mr.
Spencer moved to Washington in 1987 to serve in the
Reagan Administration where he worked in the Office
of the Secretary at the United States Department of
Commerce. He has held high level positions in
numerous campaigns including Reagan for President in
1980, Coleman for Governor in Virginia in 1981 and
Pete Wilson for U.S. Senate in 1982.
Mr.
Spencer received his bachelor of arts degree in
international relations from the University of
Southern California and his law degree from the
University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law
in Sacramento.
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Michael D. Tarullo,
Esq.
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Mr.
Tarullo is both a lawyer and an engineer. He
earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from the
University of Louisville in Kentucky and a law
degree from Capital University Law School in
Columbus, Ohio. Prior to practicing law, he had
almost twenty years of field experience in actual
construction, construction-related businesses and
field construction claims evaluation and
preparation. Mr. Tarullo has served the
construction industry through mediation,
arbitration and litigation of multiple party
disputes, as well as drafting and negotiating
complex project contracts.
As a Principal at
the law firm of Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn, Mr.
Tarullo serves as Coordinator of the Construction
Practice Area. He gives regular presentations for
various organizations locally and nationally on
project documentation and risk management. Mr.
Tarullo's other leadership activities include
extensive involvement at the Builders Exchange of
Central Ohio where he currently serves as board
President; Design Build Institute of America and
Ohio Valley Chapter, Board of Directors 2001-2003;
member of Associated General Contractors of Ohio
and Ohio Contractors Association. Mr. Tarullo is a
fellow of the American College of Construction
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Rachel Yeomans
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Ms.
Yeomans is a Total Solutions Specialist for
McGraw-Hill Construction. Working to bridge the
gap between product and customer, she is well
versed in the needs of the construction industry.
Yeomans
is an active member of AIA, AGC and CoreNet. She
has been a member of SMPS Chicago Chapter for
three years; recently joining the chapter’s
Events Committee.
Most
recently, Yeomans has attained certification in
McGraw-Hill Construction’s newest and most
innovative product to date, Project Document
Management (PDM.)
She is thrilled to be a part of the team
that brings this product to the Ohio Construction
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Billie
Tsien and Tod Williams
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Billie
Tsien received her undergraduate degree in Fine
Arts from Yale in 1971 and her Master in
Architecture from UCLA in 1977. She has taught at
Parsons, Yale, Harvard GSD, the University of
Texas at Austin and the University of
Pennsylvania. She shares with Tod Williams the
Louis I. Kahn chair at Yale University.
She has worked with
Tod Williams since 1977 and has been in
partnership with him since 1986.
She and Tod
Williams have received various awards for their
work. The Natatorium at the Cranbrook School, the
Rifkind residence, the Neurosciences Institute in
La Jolla, California and two interior projects
have all won National AIA Honor Awards. In
December 2001, the office completed The American
Folk Art Museum in New York City, the first new
museum to be built in New York in more than thirty
years. The museum has been recognized by Newsweek
magazine as giving New York "a beautiful
place to be." In 2002 the museum received the
Arup World Architecture award for Best Building in
the World.
A monograph
entitled Work/Life, published by Monacelli Press,
was released in the fall of 2000. Her other
completed projects include residences in New York
City, Southampton, and Phoenix, Hereford College
dormitory and dining facility at the University of
Virginia, two major additions to the Phoenix Art
Museum, and the Mattin Arts Center at Johns
Hopkins University.
Billie Tsien has an
interest in work that bridges art and
architecture. She is on the advisory panel for the
Wexner Prize. She is on the board of the Public
Art Fund, the Architectural League, and the
American Academy in Rome. She was a resident at
the Academy in 1999. She is the recipient with Tod
Williams of the Brunner Award from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, the Medal of Honor
from the New York City AIA, and the Chrysler Award
for Design Innovation, The Cooper Hewitt National
Design Award in Architecture and the President's
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Tod
Williams received his undergraduate degree from
Princeton University in 1965. He studied
Architecture at Cambridge University in 1966 and
received his Master of Fine Arts and Architecture
from Princeton in 1967. He taught at the Cooper
Union from 1974-1989, and has held visiting
professorships at a number of schools of
architecture since the mid 1980s. In 1982 he
received an Advanced Fellowship from the American
Academy in Rome. In 1995 Williams received The
Ruth Carter Stevenson Chair at The University of
Texas in Austin. He held the Eliel Saarinen Chair
at the University of Michigan in 2002, the Louis
I. Kahn Chair at Yale in 2003 AND 2005, and the
Thomas Jefferson Chair in 2004 at the University
of Virginia.
His work has been
honored by The American Institute of Architects
with numerous Distinguished Architecture Awards.
In 1988 he received a National AIA Award for
Feinberg Hall, a dormitory at Princeton University
and in 1989, the firm again won a National AIA
Award, this time for the Spiegel Pool House
addition. In 1992 Williams and Tsien won two more
National AIA Awards, this time for the Quandt Loft and for the Go Silk Showroom both in New York City. In 1997 the firm won a National Honor Award for the Neurosciences Institute. In 2001 they received 2 National AIA honor Awards for the Williams Natatorium at Cranbrook School and The Rifkind House in Long Island.
He and partner, Billie Tsien, have been recipients of several grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Williams has served on the Architectural Advisory Committee for Princeton University, the New York City and National AIA Awards Committees, and as Director of The Architectural League. In 1992 he was made a
Fellow in the American Institute of Architects.
Tod Williams started his career by working for Richard Meier from 1967-1973 and has been registered since 1972. He has been principal of his own firm for the last twenty-nine years and in 1986 formed the partnership of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The studio is well known for its wide range of projects, its exceptionally high standards, and work which emphasizes the importance of place and explores the nature of materials.
Mr. Williams' work has been published extensively and he has authored a number of articles. A monograph entitled Work/Life, published by Monacelli Press, was released in the fall of 2000.
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