Meet BD+C’s 40 Under 40 class of 2014 | Building Design …

Cryer co-founded Pinnacle at age 25 with a partner while still enrolled as a grad student at UTAustin. Currently leads employee recruitment, marketing, and business development for the firm, as well as managing and training staff engineers.

Has served as EOR on more than 250 projects, including blast-resistant structures for Houston-area petrochemical facilities. Also experienced in the worship, office, and K-12 sectors. Recent projects: 107,000-sf TGS Nopec Headquarters, Houston; 37,500-sf Mary Queen Catholic Church, Friendswood, Texas; 35,000-sf The Varnett School (elementary building), Houston.

Licensed Professional Engineer in nine states.

Serves on the Board of Directors for the Houston branch of ACE; active in the Mentors Program.

Presenter on AEC topics for classes at Rice University, University of Texas, and University of Houston.

Member, American Concrete Institute and The American Institute for Steel Construction.

Volunteers with his wife on projects for Rebuilding Together Houston.

Co-captain of the company bowling team, competing in the Houston Architects/Engineers Bowling League. Pinnacle has won the league title in two of the past three years. Bowled sequential 300 and 279 games in 2011.

Completed his first marathon earlier this year.

Crazy about rock and the blues, from Led Zeppelin to Gary Clark Jr. to Stone Temple Pilots. My love of music and concerts led me to pick up the guitar during my senior year of college. I hope to join a band in the not-so-distant future.

Project Executive

Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, San Francisco

AGE: 39

BS, Santa Clara University

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Raised in a family of contractors, Carmody earned a civil engineering degree and progressed from entry-level Project Engineer to Project Executive in 13 years. She is now a company shareholder.

Developed a specialization in life-science construction, identifying it as a strong growth opportunity early in her career. Created and advocated for an internal Northern California Life Science Strategy, which targeted key clients, promoted relationships, and arranged the necessary staff training. Life science is now a core market for Hathaway Dinwiddie, representing more than $1.75 billion in revenue and including high-profile clients such as Genentech, Gilead, Amgen, and HCP Life Science Estates.

EXTRACURRICULAR

Member, International Society of Professional Engineers.

Assisted in the build-out and relocation of offices for BayBio, the primary life-science industry organization in the Bay Area, in 2012.

Member, Santa Clara University Alumni Association (aka Bronco Builders).

With her husband, runs a small trucking business that serves the needs of state and federal clients during wildfires.

Regular church greeter and usher.

OFF THE CLOCK

Enjoys skiing and horseback ridingthe legacy of a childhood spent jumping horses in equestrian events. She now prefers a quarter horse and slower-paced trail riding with her two daughters.

Experienced marksman: I am a really great shot, both target and skeet.

SECRET LIFE

Owns a Honda 250X dirt bike and loves to ride in the Nevada desert.

Associate and Senior Architectural Designer

Gensler, Los Angeles

AGE: 39

BS, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture

MArch, Rice University

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Frantom is a Senior Designer in the firms Commercial Office Building studio, with a staff of more than 70. Expertise includes workplace, high-rise, mixed-use, and exterior faade systems. Recent projects: Sunset Media Center, Hollywood (reposition of an exisiting 22-story tower); NBCUniversal Broadcast Center, Studio City (150,000 sf broadcast HQ).

In a previous position as Senior Designer at HOK, Frantom worked on such projects as the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and the 400-meter Capital Market Authority headquarters tower, both in Saudi Arabia.

Honors: 2014 AIA Young Architects Award; AIA COTE Top Ten Green Projects Award; The Chicago Athaneums International Architecture Award; the International Sustainable Campus Networks Sustainable Construction Award.

Registered Architect in Texas and California.

EXTRACURRICULAR

Communications Director, AIA National Young Architects Forum Advisory Committee. Editor-in-Chief of Connection, the official bimonthly publication of the YAF.

Graduate Design Studio Advisor, University of Southern California. Formerly held faculty appointments at the University of Houston (Adjunct Design Studio Professor, Assistant Research Professor).

Co-founder, Houston Mod, a nonprofit group promoting knowledge and appreciation of modern architecture and design in Texas (secretary, vice-chair).

OFF THE CLOCK

Into fitness activities and hiking. Favorite reads: detective novels by Raymond Chandler.

SECRET LIFE

Closet is organized by the ROYGBIV rainbow system, with very little O and Y and even less V.

Senior Associate, Firmwide Technical Director, Global Design & Delivery Director

Gensler, San Francisco

AGE: 39

BA, Washington University in St. Louis

MArch, Columbia University

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Leads Genslers technical design for high-profile, high-performance buildings incorporating research on efficient technologies, materials, and systems.

Current projects: the 632-meter Shanghai Tower, the super-green Tower at PNC Plaza (Pittsburgh), a San Francisco high-rise for Tishman Speyer, and a half-million-sf headquarters for visual technology company NVIDIA in Santa Clara, Calif.

Oversees the firms design and delivery efforts in Asia and the Pacific Northwest.

EXTRACURRICULAR

Board member, Tranel Properties (family-owned real estate business).

Visiting faculty and/or critic, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, Academy of Art University, Pratt Institute, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Fordham University, Columbia University.

OFF THE CLOCK

Classically trained pianist who enjoys improvisational composition. Also enjoys woodworking, furniture making, skiing, hiking, board games, and cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco to the Marin Headlands.

Favorite flick: Wim Wenders Der Himmel ber Berlin. The sense of time and space in the movie as the camera moves through the city is quite architectural and moving.

SECRET LIFE

Grew up on a beef cattle ranch in rural Montana; still keeps a horse there.

Project Executive and Lead Structural Engineer

KJWW Engineering

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