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10 / BUILDING DIALOGUE / November 2019 Contributors Kevin Criss is a Boulder-based writer with 25 years of experience in marketing, advertising and public relations. Since 2000, his business Casa Criss has provided creative services, marketing and PR for a host of regional and national brands. kevin@casacriss.com Sean O’Keefe explores the built environment stories one project at a time. He also provides integrated writing services to architects, engineers and contractors. sean@sokpr.com Eric Peterson is a Denver-based writer specializing in business and travel writing. He's written about real estate and architecture for Confluence Denver, skiing for the New York Daily News, and tech startups for ColoradoBiz, while authoring dozens of guidebooks for Frommer's Travel Guides. He's also written his own Ramble Guides series, including Ramble Colorado. eptcb126@msn.com Cover photo Michelle Meunier Photography Gillian Hallock Johnson, LEED AP ID+C, is a principal with EUA Architecture, a national design firm. She is passionate about how interior design can profoundly impact people’s work experience and daily lives. As a design leader in the realm of workplace, Gillian enjoys capturing the soul of a company architecturally and delivering high-performance spaces that differentiate companies from their competition. Outside of the studio, Gillian relishes all of the ingenuity found in nature, and spends as much time as possible in the mountains. But her greatest passions are Italy, Italian architecture and the Italian language. gillianj@eua.com Andre LH Baros, AIA, practices architecture at Shears Adkins Rockmore, and teaches an architectural studio at the University of Colorado Denver. His current focus is on complex urban infill, housing and mentoring the next generation. abaros@sararch.com. Martin Goldstein is one of the founders and is the principal architect of Venture Architecture, a Denver- based firm specializing in discovery-focused design and delivery. He has more than 20 years of experience on large-scale commercial and civic projects as well as small, high-design remodels, mixed-use and historic renovations. martin@venturearchitecture.com Mohit Mehta, LEED AP BD+C, is the director of building performance for ME Engineers, a global mechanical and electrical engineering design firmworking on the world’s most iconic buildings and athletic facilities. Engaged in sustainable design research and analysis on high-performance buildings for over 18 years, Mohit is an expert in environmentally responsive building practices, materials and site design that promote comfortable, energy-efficient and healthy buildings. He has undertaken research on a variety of climate-adaptive strategies, and regularly lectures and writes on the integration of energy and sustainable design principles into urban planning and building design. Mohit.Mehta@me-engineers.com