The primary purpose of UW’s Design Review Board (DRB) is to maximize the functionality and desirable experiential qualities of the Seattle campus, its facilities and setting, as influenced by plans and/or designs of projects with budgets less than $5 million, and/or projects which either individually or cumulatively have temporary or permanent visual and/or functional impacts on the campus setting, including any historic resources. The campus setting is defined for DRB purposes as the campus landscape, plantings, circulation corridors and gathering places, building exteriors, public spaces and rights of way, and significant interior public spaces.
Schedule
The Design Review Board meets every two weeks on Fridays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on an as-needed basis. Please contact Sydney Thiel at sydthiel@uw.edu for more information.
Reference documents
The board is composed of UW Facilities staff with expertise in the built environment:
Chair: Sydney Thiel, Assistant Director, Associate Architect, Campus Architecture & Planning (CAP)
- Julie Blakeslee, Environmental and Land Use Planner, Campus Architecture & Planning (CAP)
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Kristine Kenney, Executive Director, Campus Architecture & Planning and University Landscape Architect
- Jim Pebles, Facilities Director, Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
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Jennifer Reynolds, Project Manager, Project Delivery Group (PDG)
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Shane Ruegamer, Director, Project Delivery Group (PDG)
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Doug Simpson, Architect, Engineering Services