HDR Announces New Vice Presidents
Merle S. Bachman, AIA, president of HDR Architecture, Inc., recently announced the following 10 new vice presidents of the company in various HDR offices.
Alexandria
Paul G. Heflin, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, principal, federal program, came to HDR with 25 years of extensive experience in public-sector projects and held key project management roles for a number of prominent federal agency clients, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution and several members of the intelligence community.
Terence L. Williams, PE, LEED AP, principal and senior federal project manager, has a 32-year architectural engineering career working with many top-level federal departments and agencies, and both major airports in the Washington, D.C. area. He brings strong leadership to the federal practice, with an added background in security engineering, compliance with historic preservation guidelines, environmental remediation and sustainable design.
Charlotte
James J. Atkinson, AIA, LEED AP, is a healthcare principal with a 17-year career focused exclusively on development of state-of-the-art healthcare facilities. These projects include women's and children's facilities, cardiac services, cancer treatment, inpatient imaging services, ambulatory care and campus mater planning, with specific emphasis in planning and operations improvement. Last year he received a national-level peer recognition team award for his work on a large hospital project in Abu Dhabi.
John Pate, AIA, NCARB, is a healthcare principal with over 32 years' experience. He is the national director of military healthcare planning and principal-in-charge for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracts held by the Charlotte office. A former architect with the U.S. Army Health Facilities Planning Agency, he has extensive experience in the planning and design of highly technical buildings, including medical, research and training facilities throughout the country.
Chicago
Mark Balasi, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, project manager/senior architect, is a 33-year veteran of the architecture field, the past six with HDR. With more than 28 years experience in healthcare facility design, his responsibilities include supervision of all phases of architectural and engineering services. In Illinois alone, he has worked on nearly 40 hospital projects, all in high-level project management positions.
Jeffrey A. Fahs, ASLA, LEED AP, is a senior landscape architect with 18 years of experience in planning and design. He leads HDR' site studio in the Chicago office, which includes master site planning and landscape design for health care, science and technology, and transportation clients. He has achieved a diversity of management, planning, and design expertise related to new town developments, resorts, and parks in both domestic and overseas markets.
Cincinnati
Keith A. Strunk is a mechanical section manager for HDR Healthcare Architecture's Cincinnati office with nearly 21 years of consulting experience in the engineering industry. As a plumbing engineer, project manager and coordinator, he is responsible for creating and maintaining all engineering standards. In his three years with HDR, he has worked on 15 healthcare facility projects as well as corrections projects and ethanol plants.
St. Paul
James W. Thomson, AIA, LEED AP, managing principal in the Healthcare Business Group, has over 10 years with HDR. He is responsible for management of the St. Paul, MN office and of large healthcare projects. In his career, he has managed significant projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Veterans Affairs, many local and state agencies and various public sector, private sector and university clients.
Dallas
Steve C. Sedlacek is the manager of the HDR-Dallas Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Section. He has been with the company for 26 years and specializes in mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, and medical gases. He has served as project manager on several large central plant projects and worked on numerous justice, civic, healthcare, institutional, commercial and industrial facilities around the country. He has garnered 11 peer recognition awards since 2001, including the national top team award in 2006.
Phoenix
Howard Shugar, LEED AP, is a senior project manager/architectural team leader in HDR's Science + Technology business sector. His experience includes numerous projects in research laboratory and pharmaceutical installations, higher education, television and radio studios, telecommunication and data processing facilities, microelectronics facilities, food processing and manufacturing, as well as commercial, industrial, and office buildings. He has also been involved in many design-build and fast-track projects in public and private sectors.