Design Team

2025 Design Challenge

Our 2024-25 Design team will participate in the 2025 DOE Design Challenge with a multifamily building to tackle the housing crisis in Chicago. The team is making preliminary designs and researching innovative solutions to meet retrofit energy requirements. 

Project Team Leadership

2024 - 2025 Project Manager

Electrical & Energy Lead

Varsha Hemmady-Wright

Electrical & Energy Lead

HVAC & Plumbing Lead

Sustainability & Environmental Science Lead

Architecture & structural

Zixuan Wang

Lugano Mwakatapanya

HVAC & plumbing systems

Electrical and Energy systems

Market & cost analysis

Izabella Kopec

sustainability & Environmental science