LOS ANGELES, Calif. – SmithGroupJJR has promoted Andrew Beilfuss, Francie Moore and Alek Zarifian to principal at its Los Angeles, California office. Kathryn Dunn, Hsiao Lin Hu, Petra Lowe, Drew Padilla and Steven Spaid have been promoted to principal at its San Francisco, California office.
Andrew Beilfuss
Beilfuss leads the Health Studio in SmithGroupJJR’s Los Angeles office and brings 30 years of experience working on healthcare projects for academic, for-profit and non-profit clients. His accomplishments include multifaceted, large-scale projects for clients such as University of California, San Diego and Sutter Health, and he is charged with supervising a new inpatient tower addition at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center in Chula Vista, California.
Francie Moore, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Moore has established herself as a technical resource and design expert within SmithGroupJJR’s Los Angeles office. Moore is involved with the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, under construction on a 12-acre site in Downey, California; the new seven-story, nearly $240-million, inpatient tower addition at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center in Chula Vista, California, slated for completion in 2019 and three clinics for Cedars-Sinai Medical Delivery Network in Los Angeles County.
Alek Zarifian, FAIA, LEED AP
Zarifian is a lead architectural designer in SmithGroupJJR’s Los Angeles office and is skilled at designing and managing a broad range of complex healthcare and science and technology project types. Zarifian’s recent project work includes the 44,000-square-foot Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Zarifian’s contributions to advancing the team’s design objectives earned the project a Citation Award in the Unbuilt category in the American Institute of Architects Pasadena and Foothill chapter’s 2015 Design Awards program.
Kathryn Dunn, AIA
Dunn is a senior architect and designer in the San Francisco office’s Health Studio. She managescomplex healthcare projects, including interior design and tenant improvement work. She is serving as project manager of interior design for two Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center hospitals—the 12-story, 740,000-square-foot Van Ness and Geary Campus; and the 120-bed, 215,000-square-foot replacement hospital at the health system’s St. Luke’s Campus. Both facilities are under construction and scheduled for completion in 2019.
Hsiao Lin Hu, IIDA
Hu is a senior interior architect and designer for the Health Studio at the San Francisco office. Hu excels at developing sophisticated conceptual design solutions, including work on two award-winning projects—the Comprehensive Transplant Center for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles and interior design efforts for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Robley Rex VA Replacement Medical Center and VBO Office Building, Louisville, Kentucky.
Petra Lowe, CPSM
Lowe is the director of business development at SmithGroupJJR’s San Francisco office and has been instrumental in growing the firm’s Health Practice within the California market. Recent project wins have included a new 340-bed inpatient tower and 180,000-square-foot specialty medical office building for Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno, California and Kaiser Permanente’s 220,000-square-foot specialty medical office building and radiation/oncology center, to be constructed in the Tri-Valley area of Alameda County, California.
Drew Padilla, Associate AIA
Padilla is an architect and interior designer recognized for delivering award-winning projects. He contributes to the firm’s business development initiatives and promotes cross-studio collaboration between several of SmithGroupJJR’s offices. Padilla served as project manager on the American Red Cross Bay Area Headquarters and the Microsoft Technology Center in Mountain View, California.
Steven Spaid, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Spaid has over 25 years of experience as an architectural designer, project manager and construction administrator for large-scale multifaceted projects. Spaid’s focus for the last 10 years has been on healthcare facilities, completing the design of two acute-care hospitals under construction for Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco: the 12-story, 274-bed, 740,000-square-foot Van Ness and Geary Campus and the new 120-bed, 215,000-square-foot replacement hospital at the health system’s St. Luke’s Campus.
