In this presentation, you will learn about early modernist philosophies for understanding materials that will support your cutting-edge designs. We will use examples of this approach to evaluate some ultra-modern materials. By implementing adaptable methodologies, you will become familiar with our frameworks to vet any new product, even emerging materials or less exotic alternates to our standard products. You will be able confidently rely on their beauty, performance, and installation parameters following this method. The method systematically focuses our attention on different aspects and perspectives to give us greater understanding. It uses an iterative process, to identify knowledge gaps and potential risks.
We will look at the material's defined use and how to evaluate performance, sustainability, health and safety implications, and even look for unintended consequences. In the end, you should be able to evaluate if the material is right for your project and fits your vision.
Jennifer Parr, CDT
West Region Specifications Specialist
HDR
Jennifer Parr is the Western Region Specification Specialist at HDR with over twenty years of experience in the Design and Architecture Industry. As a Project Manager and Sustainable Design Director on large and technically complicated projects, she strived for innovative and elegant solutions to the messiest of problems. As a Specification Specialist she focuses on resilent, functional, and beautiful products thoughtfully used.
Believing firmly that the devil is in the details, she is drawn to the granular aspects of a project. She has enjoyed doing extensive detailing for high design projects and searching the world for healthy and inovative materials. At HDR, in her second collaboration with Herzog de Meron, she is currnetly working on the Helen Diller Hospital in San Francisco helping to deliver a healthy and sustainable project by challenging the status quo.
Gwynn Beasley
Sr. Design Coordinator
HDR
Gwynn Beasley is with HDR based out of California with 10 years of experience in Healthcare Architecture. She has worked on multiple large-scale projects in major metropolitan areas, including a high profile educational hospital inpartnership with Hurtzog De Muron. She has spent much of her career working hand in hand with Contractors, Engineers, Fabricators, and AHJs making quality designs into reality. She has experience working in interdisciplinary “Big Room” settings using Integrated Project Delivery methods. She specializes in designing OSHPD 1, new construction of inpatient hospitals. using LEAN principles, innovative products, and technical knowledge. Gwynn finds purpose in creating welcoming, safe, and healing spaces for all those who inhabit the built environment.
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