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Frank Mahan's professional experience and expertise in preservation
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Frank Mahan outlines his professional role and expertise in the field of historic preservation and adaptive reuse. He is a design principal at Skidmore, Owens and Merrill, a globally influential architecture firm.
- Mahan leads the adaptive reuse practice, coordinating work on historic buildings worldwide.
- His focus is on preserving buildings for the future, retrofitting them for energy efficiency, and converting them to new uses.
- He finds working on civically scaled projects in New York City particularly rewarding.
Frank Mahan
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I'm a design principal at Skidmore, Owens and Merrill, one of the largest and most influential architecture, interior design, engineering and urban planning firms in the world.
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In this role I lead our adaptive reuse practice coordinating our work on historic buildings around the world to preserve them for the future, retrofit them for energy efficiency and convert them to vibrant new uses.
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But it is working on civically scaled projects in my hometown that is the most rewarding.