Deborah Macpherson Email & Phone Number

Vienna, VA, US

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Honored and humbled to take over WDG Specifications upon William Pegues' retirement. Great company, big buildings, a lot of energy.

Washington D.C.

Associate Director of Specifications is a newly created role. Upon retirement of the current Director of Specifications, William Pegues, I will assume the role and title of Director of Specifications. WDG is a national architecture, planning, and interior design firm with a staff of 150 that have produced over 500 major buildings including commercial.

A 501c3 nonprofit organization, Mission: Building Consensus. Applying principles of physical space to semantic space using art, architecture, maps, programming, and music to help shape open source technology. Invention: Context Driven Topologies 10/803040 updated to 12/146,821

CSI National Technical Committee develops and maintains technical standards for the architecture and construction industry. Currently we are supporting the UniFormat Task Team in new infrastructure areas, reviewing PPD format, and reviewing various industry initiatives.

Greater Boston Area

Architectural specification writing for high rise, healthcare, LEED and international projects, along with master specifications for organizations, and associated technical research. Our mission is to enable the designer’s vision through precise specifications.

Write architectural specifications, provide project team leadership, coordinate design and performance requirements for complex and fast track buildings. Adapt to a variety of project delivery structures and schedules. Organize project information and define procurement and construction requirements through interactions with Owners, Contractors, Engineers.

Produced first iteration at 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver CO then installed permanently on the 10th floor of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Headquarters. Coordinated several other exhibits including ESRI DC Office and user conference, 2nd iteration at New York Public Library, Science Business and Industry.

NIEM is a data exchange model used across federal, state, local, and tribal governments. Business Architecture Committee (NBAC) June 2009 through November 2013. OmniClass facility types was built into Version 3 to advance public safety, child services and others utilizing NIEM to exchange information across domains.

Version 2 Planning Committee, Technical Subcommittee, Nomination Committee. Version 3 Project Committee. Submitted the W3C XML ballot which was accepted. Worked with the committee to categorize the ballots and follow an ISO standard for standards so there is more consistency. Submitted a blue sky ballot for an NBIMS reference architecture which is still in.

Northern Virginia Chapter, CSI, PO Box 223415, Chantilly, VA 20153

Construction Document Technologist [CDT], September 2006Certified Construction Specifier [CCS], July 2008CSI members include specification writers, architects, manufacturers, contractors and others involved in the built environment. Immediate past president of the Northern Virginia Chapter.

A project to deliver digital building information to first responders. The objective of the Open Floor Plan Display / Exchange project is to develop a lightweight, portable, platform-neutral, electronic display format for exchanging building information, primarily 2 dimensional floor plans, to deliver basic building layouts to local fire departments and.

OmniClass is a multi-faceted strategy for classification of the built environment used in Building Information Modeling (BIM) software, online product data, facility management and other applications.

Northern Virginia

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Write original technical specifications and coordinate specifications by others including civil, electrical, mechanical, and specialty metallurgy engineers, landscape architects, and other designers. Specifications were prepared to meet Federal requirements including the special requirements of the Pentagon Renovation Project [PENREN] while preserving the.

Write architectural specifications and organize project information. Review drawing terminology and assembly details. Coordinate all phases of Construction Documents. Continuously educate myself and the architects in industry standards and best practices. Update and maintain master specifications. Research and evaluate material performance, manufacturer.

Researched special geometry, glass, and photovoltaic requirements for a neat little building next to Union Station DC.

Space planning, story telling, design and construction documents. Communicate design intent to a wide range of people from owners and officials to the trades. Coordinated work within office and with curators, architects, engineers, specialty contractors and consultants. Typical elements include unusual artifacts, innovative audiovisual and lighting.

Bachelor, Environmental Visual Design

Education record