February 2026 Monthly Meeting

The mass timber Founders Hall project at the University of Washington stands as an exemplary model for air barrier performance in design and construction. This presentation will delve into the innovative strategies and collaborative approach that led to the project's exceptional success, with a focus on how attendees can apply these lessons to their own projects.

Michael is a licensed Architect who joined Hoffman Construction in 2007, ago after practicing for 9 years in Seattle and the surrounding area. In his years of practice, he developed the firm’s Quality Plan and executed internal Quality Reviews as a Project Architect, Project Manager, and Partner.

At Hoffman, he began working on project sites, coordinating subcontractors and installations, learning the ways the details he had drawn as an architect were actually being installed. Since 2019, he has been helping devise and implement a company-wide quality system that focuses on planning as the strategy to ensure materials are installed correctly the first time. He leads preconstruction drawing and specifications reviews to ensure complete, coordinated, and constructable documents are issued for construction. As the project transitions to construction, he collaborates with project site teams to identify and mitigate risks, provides technical guidance to help provide solutions to complex details, and communicates quality goals as construction progresses.

Michael has experience in many building types, high rise towers to below grade transit stations, and with GCCM and Design Build project delivery methods, as both an architect and contractor. A proud building science and sustainability geek, he completed the design and build of his own net-zero house in 2021.