Aging Composite Materials and Assemblies: Sustainable Repair & Reinvestment

SPEAKERS

David Fixler, FAIA/FAPT, Principal, David Fixler Architecture Planning Preservation & APT Technical Committee on
Modern Heritage Co-Founder

David Fixler is a practitioner, scholar and educator specializing buildings of the 20th century modern movement. He has guided the renovation of numerous landmark facilities for including Alvar Aalto’s Baker House at MIT, Louis Kahn’s Richards Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania and the United Nations Headquarters. A frequent writer and lecturer on architecture and preservation, Mr. Fixler has had his design and written work published internationally and has taught and lectured at many institutions and conferences throughout Europe, the Americas and Australia. He currently teaches conservation as a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Mr. Fixler is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, co-founder and past president of DOCOMOMO-US/New England, a Peer Review Architect in the Design Excellence program for the GSA, and co-founder and former co-chair of the Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) Technical Committee on Modern Heritage.

Bill Parks, Senior Project Manager, F.D. Thomas. Identifying, Removing, Mitigating
Hazardous Materials

Bill Parks joined F.D. Thomas, Inc. in March of 2012. He currently serves as a VP – Division Manager of the Specialty Contracting division of F.D. Thomas, Inc. based out of Kent, WA. As Division Manager, Bill is responsible for all aspects of the division. This responsibility includes control of all projects and production through estimating, pre-job planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting. He ensures that production and budgeting requirements are maintained through the duration of the project and to ensure that every effort is made to meet customer expectation in service and performance.

John Sandor has worked as an architectural historian in the Technical Preservation Services Division of the National Park Service since 1996. He reviews rehabilitation projects seeking certification for federal tax credits and provides assistance to the users of the program and the general public on technical aspects of preservation. He recently revised Preservation Brief #16, The Use of Substitute Materials on Historic Buildings, co-authored with David Trayle and Amy Elizabeth Uebel. The guide provides general guidance on the use of substitutes for in kind replacement materials on historic building exteriors. Sandor speaks frequently on historic building windows, curtain walls, and other issues relating to the application of the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.  

César Bargues Ballester, Associate Project Specialist, Getty Institute

César Bargues Ballester is an associate project specialist at the Getty in Los Angeles, USA. He has been involved with several projects, including research, publications and training activities, working towards the goals of the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative. Prior to joining the Getty Conservation Institute in 2018, Cesar conducted recording, documentation, and investigative studies on twentieth-century buildings and sites in the US and Spain. As a Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania, César managed a multi-phase project in partnership with the National Park Service and a conservation planning project funded by the Getty Keeping It Modern program. He holds a master-level degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. His formal training also includes business disciplines. César is an active member of various professional associations and serves on the SAH Strategic Planning Committee. 

Mic Patterson

Mic Patterson has concentrated his professional and academic career on advanced technology and sustainable building practices. He is principal of Design Tectonics, Inc, co-founded the Facade Tectonics Institute, served as its inaugural president, and currently serves as FTI’s Ambassador of Innovation and Collaboration. He was a co- founder of the Advanced Technology Studio of Enclos, served on the Advisor Group for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and currently serves on the technical research committee of GlassCon Global. Patterson is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, where he earned a PhD focusing on building sciences to challenge the sustainability of current curtain wall retrofit practices. Author of Structural Glass Facades and Enclosures (John Wiley, 2011), Patterson has taught, written, and lectured internationally on diverse aspects of facade technology.

Beth L. Savage, Director of the Center for Historic Buildings, General Services
Administration

Beth L. Savage serves as the agency's Federal Historic Preservation Officer, leading the stewardship of more than 500 historic buildings spanning 1810-1979. She came to GSA as the Regional Historic Preservation Officer for the National Capital Region after her long tenure at the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places, where she served as a multi-State liaison and the Managing Editor of the technical publications program and website. Her professional experience includes documenting, assessing, speaking and writing on the recent past; maritime, roadside and vernacular historic properties; transportation corridors and African American historic places. She holds degrees from the University of Maryland and George Washington University.

Composite Materials Symposium Coordinator & Technical Committee on Modern Heritage Co-Chairs

Kelly Sutherlin McLeod, FAIA, Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture, Inc

As co-chair APT’s Technical Committee on Modern Heritage, Kelly Sutherlin McLeod, FAIA facilitated APT’s MOU with the Façade Tectonics Institute and guided planning for APT symposia on Renewing Modernism and Industrial Sites, Embodied Carbon and Adaptive Reuse. She founded KSMA in 1988, focusing on design for sustainable new construction, adaptive reuse and preservation, serving as project architect for conservation and rehabilitation of 20th century design masterworks in Southern California such as the Gamble House, the USC Pacific Asia Museum, the Killingsworth Office Building, and Sedgwick Reserve Ranch House. She has served on the Board of Directors for Pasadena Heritage and serves on the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency Board, Economic Development Commission and Cultural Heritage Commission.