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Jacobs Engineering Group
Architectural Technical Director
Bio
Drake Wauters is an architectural technical director for the global buildings architecture and engineering practice at Jacobs Engineering Group in Arlington, Virginia. In practice since 1985 on over 25 million square feet of projects, he has been a technical resource, design discipline integrator, analyst, and risk control advisor on many teams through planning, design, and construction. He has also served as a consultant on building and construction related issues since 1991; worked within architecture, engineering, and construction firms; and spent over 10 years in firm leadership. His education included the architectural technology program of Montgomery College and the architectural program of Kansas State University. He is on several advisory boards and a member of numerous professional organizations. Projects have included many technically challenging new facilities and modernizations. These include major government, institutional, and corporate headquarters; state-of-the-art laboratories for three federal agencies and a major research university; data centers; communications facilities; clean room facilities; blast hardening; energy shielding; power generation complexes including an historic modernization and expansion project; command and control facilities; over a dozen new US complexes overseas; manufacturing and industrial facilities; justice facilities; a key multi-college sector of a new university city near the Arabian gulf; medical modernizations and expansions; special projects; as well as technical reviews, condition assessments, forensic solutions, value management support, and feasibility studies for a wide swath of clientele. Project delivery methods have included design-build, design-bid-build, design-assist, and construction manager led.
Specialties
Accessibility Compliance, Agency Consulting / Review / Approval, Analysis of Alternates / Substitutions, Architectural Design, Bidding / Negotiation, Code Compliance, Construction Defect Analysis, Construction Documentation: Drawings, Construction Documentation: Specifications, Construction Procurement, Contract Administration, Coordination of Designated Services, Cost Estimating, Design-Build, Energy Analysis and Design, Existing Facilities Surveys, Expert Witness, Facility Evaluation Services, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, Lighting Design, Maintenance and Operational Programming, Marketing Studies, Materials Research / Specifications, Observation Services, Programming, Project Administration, Research Services, Security Evaluation and Planning, Site Analysis and Selection, Space Schematics / Flow Diagrams, Special Bidding, Special Building Type Consultation, Special Disciplines Consultation, Strategic Facility Planning, Structural Design, Submittal Services, Sustainable Building Design, Value Analysis, Warranty Review
Affiliations
Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), International Code Council (ICC), National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP), Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Interests
Sound Public Policy, Risk Control, Sustainable Practices, Best Design Practices, Economics
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