Posted: 29-Dec-22
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: 2022-2163
Overview
HGA is an award-winning architectural, engineering and planning firm with an excellent opportunity for a project architect with a passion for healthcare work. Bring you passion and experience to HGA and collaborate with our industry thought leaders in healthcare design, sustainability, and architectural innovation.
At HGA we work to foster an environment where diversity of thought, background and experience creates new energy. Through your curiosity, tenacity, creativity, and unique insights you can make an impact every day. That impact is felt by your colleagues, by our clients, and by those who inhabit the spaces we create. We are committed to meeting our clients’ sustainability goals as well as challenging our industry. We aim to develop the expertise and research to push beyond net zero energy to net positive energy from a neutral effect on health, safety, and resources to a positive one. As the need and desire for sustainable environments grow, so does the focus on high-performance buildings with sound data that we can share back with our clients and our design teams.
HGA is both team-oriented and employee-friendly and social activities are integrated into our office culture. We offer challenge, recognition, and personal visibility with an opportunity to be part of great projects.
In this role you will
- Develops a thorough understanding of projects design philosophy and provides major input in developing a design and building performance strategy and effectively conveys this to assigned team members when appropriate.
- Provides technical design input. Responsible for a project’s technical design effort, subsequent detailed design development, project coordination and quality control efforts during all phases of project work, in close collaboration with the Senior Designer.
- Seeks creative and innovative solutions to assigned tasks and develops appropriate research and documents to support these solutions.
- Actively collaborates with and coordinates work of consultants and knowledge resources to ensure the project deliverables are coordinated, integrated, and support the design concept and performance goals of the project.
- Contributes to the preparation of design documents and leads the detailed development of construction documents during all project phases, delivering complete, accurate and coordinated project documentation.
- Advances the production of schematic, design development, and construction document drawings and specifications in compliance with project scope schedule, cost, and design intent.
- Maintains awareness of evolving building technology and systems.
- Reviews shop drawings, material samples and CD’s for conformance with design.
- Performs construction administration duties (e.g. RFI’s, RFP’s change orders, etc.)
- Prepares reports and specifications; reviews completed reports, plans, cost estimates and calculations.
- Executes applicable agency review analysis (Accessibility, zoning, life-safety, etc.)
- Maintains contact with clients, consultants, and contractors during all project phases, participating in marketing, client and owner presentations as required.
You will need to have:
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Architecture
- Architectal license required
- 12+ years of professional experience on small-to-large scale project types; OSHPD / DSA experience highly desirable
- Strong graphic skills essential
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, able to communicate clearly with team members and clients
- Demonstrated ability to oversee and be responsible for project delivery which may be multiple, large, or complex in scope
Additional Qualifications (value-add, not required)
- LEED accreditation preferred
- Proficiency in Revit required; experience with AutoCAD, SketchUp, Enscape, and other graphic tools desired
