I collected quotes from our clients and division leaders to create a booklet to honor our employees. My intention was to inspire pride with a physical book our employees could show to their families and friends.
I utilized Adobe InDesign and Photoshop for this 90-page booklet.
ESI Construction's annual "State of the Company" is more of an event than a meeting. My team was responsible for the entire production of this event, including the messaging, design, presentation, printed signage, swag, games, and food. Each year, this is an intensive collaborative project that requires months of preparation and teamwork.
For 2020 we represented our success with the humble plumb bob. A plumb bob is a weight that uses gravity to ensure vertical alignment when constructing a building. We consult a “company” plumb bob on the health of our culture and people. When a new challenge arises, we pause, see where we are at, and adjust.
Software utilized: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint, and SurveyMonkey
I was proud to coordinate a major milestone for BSU's brand new Center for Fine Arts, which involved topping out the building with the final steel beam. The final steel beam carries an American flag, a pine tree, and our signatures. It was exciting to contribute to such a locally esteemed project.
The pine tree is a long-standing construction tradition that symbolizes good luck for the building and the crew.
Writing Samples
The ENR Best Projects competition requires pages of project writing to compete across a seven-state region that includes Utah, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota.
A panel of 12 judges from all areas of the industry—architects, GCs, green consultants, virtual designers and engineers—selected winners and merit awards from the 156 total entries this year, by far the most in the 19-year history of the awards.
In 2020, my project writing and submissions won us the following awards: Timberline High School First Place, Gibson Apartments award of merit, and BSU Fine Arts award of merit.
Below I've included short samples of my project writing.
The Timberline High School add-on was designed by Lombard Conrad Architects to blend seamlessly with the existing architecture inside and out. Interior corridors flow directly into the existing structure. The exterior materials were expertly matched to the 20-year-old brick and stucco.
The 30,000 square-foot add-on included expanded administration offices, restrooms, and a central counseling suite. The ground floor is dedicated to the arts and contains makerspaces (collaborative work stations), instructional classrooms for ceramics, 2D/3D art, painting, drawing, computer graphic arts, and photography. The second floor adds on eight classrooms for science, biology and chemistry, six of which have full student lab experiment stations with sinks.
Located in downtown Boise, the Gibson Apartments building includes amenities such as an urban pocket park, a tenant common living room connected to outdoor space via an overhead glass door, tenant package room, bike storage and wash, dog wash and run, and indoor garage level parking. The building also includes a first-floor common outdoor space equipped with a fire pit, outdoor kitchen and dining area that showcases excellent views of the city and foothills.
The western portion of the development is a lighter brick color that represents the Art Deco style buildings that were initially on the site. The southwestern part of the development pulls from neighboring mission-style buildings with white stucco and terracotta color trim.
The visionary project established a new trend for downtown urban living. Centralized in a central location in the historic downtown area, and two blocks from the recently completed City Hall Plaza, the community was excited and welcoming of the concept presented for this location. The strong historical influence is evident in brick facades which draw the eye upward toward the rooftop patio amenity and upward lights that crown the building in the evening. Among the landscaping, metal Juliet-style railing accents, and cedar patio accents at loft entries that give the building its striking character, a key design component was the 1,100sf ground-level pocket park along the north side of the building.
Boise welcomes its brand new $42 million, 98,000 square-foot Fine Arts building on the Boise State University (BSU) campus. The Fine Arts building will serve as the new home for the art department currently scattered throughout five buildings on campus.
The facility is comprised of two interconnected buildings: the five-story curved limestone and glass-clad structure will serve as studio space and offices, while the blue stainless steel shingle clad structure will house galleries and classrooms. The facility will include studios for each artistic medium, such as metals, graphic design, illustration, ceramics, and painting, along with multiple classrooms, and a high-tech World Museum, which enables students and visitors to “virtually” visit many world-class museums around the world. It also offers unique options for artistic expression, delivery, and interaction.
Additionally, the building includes a gallery space conforming to stringent temperature and humidity standards for students to present their artistic creations and for regional and national traveling art exhibits. Specialized environmental and exhaust systems are necessary to remove the indoor pollutants generated by the creative process and to safely contain hazardous materials used for certain types of art production.
