A Registered Architect with 18 years of comprehensive design, documentation, and project management experience, I have successfully led multi-disciplinary teams from conceptual design through construction completion. While my experience includes mixed-use, commercial, and public work, the bulk of my experience has been in the design, documentation, and construction of low-rise, wood-frame multi-family – townhouses, stacked flats, garden apartments, and elevator-service apartment buildings. Hi, my name is Michele Strassheim and if you have every had the pleasure to work in multi-family residential development, you know that it is a unique animal. Each multi-family residential type has its own nuances and rarely are two types, let alone two of the same type, designed exactly the same. Every situation presents unique challenges. However, based on my experience, the one critical common denominator that ensures the success of every multi-family residential type is – strategic planning. Truly effective multi-family design requires extremely methodical strategic and efficient planning. It is the only way to achieve all the objectives. That is why I have spent over a decade learning and further developing strategies that tackle marketing objectives, structural efficiencies, reoccurring MEP field conflicts, and minimizing construction costs.