George James Ducas - Executive Director AIA NCARB

Architecture & Interior Design 1981-2025: Experience on many mixed-use projects, 4 of them as large as 2 billion dollars involving master plan development, some midrise, and others high rise. I have been involved in residential, commercial and many other project types. I have served many prestigious companies as Arcadis, Giffels, Ch2mHill, SOM, Lockheed Martin, CRSS, General Motors and projects of notable architects as Pei, Isozaki, Graham, Ford, Gehry, and others. I have been a studio-staff director. Construction Management 2000-2025: Experience on multiple projects; on budgets and onsite review as many as 100 per month. Involving complete design build as many as 10 projects in 10 cities with 100% travel. I have extensive experience at construction administration from the architect's side as well as cm work from the owner’s side. I have been involved in various delivery methods such as design build, builder at risk, fast track, and conventional bid-build. Real Estate Development 2001-2025: Experience as the head of design and construction. In addition, I have been involved with all real estate activities such as due diligence, special zoning, reviews with city council, land purchase, land analysis, sales contracts, marketing, legal, construction contracts, insurances, schedules, master plan budgets, consultant and contractor selection, bonds, and cash flow estimates. My involvement includes land development and Design-Build. Banking, Finance, & Risk Management 1990-2025: Experience in cost estimating, value engineering, and master plan budgeting; also involved in budgets to include land development and vertical construction. I am aware of the impact to costs by inflation, timeline, schedule, building systems and soft costs. My budgets incorporate contingencies for construction errors, and soft costs based on models developed while manager reviewing developer budgets-projects of 100/month. Executive Management 2000-2025: A management system call Intradisciplinary Integrated Systems Management focuses on design, development, construction, finance, and associated activities as one profession. Net Zero risk methodology; Hierarchical Approach: Modes of responsibility & accountability; Operational Structure: Modes of communication & collaboration; Mindset Methodology: Actions resolving the process of problem solving; Process: Linear, Circular, & Self-Correcting; Culture: Modes of interaction towards set performances; Systems: Product Development; Intradisciplinary: One Profession; Integration: Integrate evaluation tools; Management: Systems Theory.