Since joining the firm in 2007, Damien has been highly engaged in a variety of PK-12 work across the company. His focus and passion relate to long range facility planning, community engagement, user engagement and programming, and design and planning of PK-12 facilities. As co-director of BLDD's PK-12 design group, Damien continues to push the ways the firm thinks about design solutions for our clients. This includes deeply understanding user needs when programming a facility, rigorous understanding of the functionality of our facilities to provide cost effective design solutions, and listening to district's or communities as a whole to understand the underlying wants, needs and desires to assist in uncovering solutions that accomplish goals and aspirations often thought to be impossible.