LEED-AP, Assoc. AIA

EcoArchitect + Synthesist + BIM Innovation Director, CEO ECOPHI

 

Traverse City, Michigan native Jess has explored the world extensively in search of sustainable and innovative solutions to our built environment. From his undergraduate and Masters in Architecture in Bozeman, Montana; 17 LEED buildings around the world; 2 years with DWL Architects in Phoenix, Arizona; complete around the world trip during the 2009 recession; four years creating EkooBIM in Bogotá, Colombia; 2 years creating TB + Associates design build firm; 1 year creating relationships in bamboo architecture & eco-consulting in Indonesia & Asia. Currently working with nonprofits SEEDS & BARC to solve economical housing; over 100+ BIM Revit Models, while running his own practice, ECOPHI Architecture for the past 10 years is a short sum of his career.

 

Jess has a love for nature and cities alike, blending the fabric of our existence in a holistic manner relating to the senses expressed by the environment through experience is essential to his creative explorations and solutions. With a hunger to be involved in solving issues in our social environmental context drives his passion to help co-create this world into a better place for generations to come...