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Jim Woody
Jim Woody is a case study in service and what it means to be a “citizen architect.” His daily words and actions show just how much he means to his community in Charlottesville, Virginia, the entire organization at Perkins&Will, and to the profession of architecture. Since graduating from Virginia Tech in 1999, Jim has deliberately built a career around service and one key idea: It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. He leads construction contract administration on all of our major healthcare projects in Virginia. Through this lens, Jim balances advocacy of design and defense of the architect, while supporting the owner and providing timely direction to the contractor. Within the Commonwealth of Virginia, Jim has led Construction Contract Administration for over 1.5 million square feet of healthcare work completed by Perkins&Will.
Jim is not just a technical expert, sitting in a construction trailer answering RFI’s; he is an all-time great at what he does and he uses his platform to mentor young architects, embrace his community, and teach the value of empathetic architecture.