Ken leads a studio in the Washington, DC office and has extensive experience in Museum, Cultural, Federal, Higher Ed. & Historic Preservation. Existing building renovation, adaptive re-use & preservation all require detailed document review & investigations to understand existing building opportunities or limitations. Doing this due diligence on projects like the National Air & Space Museum (NASM), the Carnegie Library and INSPIR Embassy Row projects allowed careful coordination with the owner, design team & contractor to get the most value out of the structural interventions.  

Ken has always had an interest in the design of Building Envelopes from working in a Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel as an undergrad at Clemson University, to doing graduate research in Wind Engineering at the University of Florida, to developing window/door/curtainwall product lines for a façade systems supplier. He has continued this work and leads the Façade Engineering group within TYLin Buildings. Notable projects include the NASM (DC) Curtainwall, skylight and stone rainscreen system; the Solar Carve (NYC) Unitized Curtainwall: the 2050 Mst (DC) curtainwall: & 2nd Ave. Subway (NYC) Terracotta Cladding.  

Areas of expertise:

• Renovation
• Historic preservation
• New Construction
• Façade engineering & glass

Publications and presentations:

• “A Case for Standardized Dynamic Wind Uplift Pressure Test for Wood Roof Structural Systems”: 11th Americas Conference for Wind Engineering, Puerto Rico 2009
• “Revisiting Wind Uplift Testing of Wood Roof Sheathing – Interpretation of Static and Dynamic Test Results”:  Hurricane Hugo 20th Anniversary Symposium on Building Safer Communities, Charleston SC 2009