EXPERIENCE

John Knapp has 35 years of experience with emphasis in institutional and educational architecture, program planning, master planning, architectural design, and development. John was previously with klipp Architects, opening and developing their Higher Education studio. During his career, he has completed 28 major building projects, 51 program plans and 21 master plans for civic and institutional clients in Colorado and Wyoming. He also contributed to capital facilities strategies for many of those organizations. John has served as principal for the past 27 years and has led the majority of Higher Education work included in his resume.

Prior to private practice, he managed Facilities Development for the State of Colorado for several years, and directed Facilities Planning for 43 agencies statewide during his tenure. His focus is assisting institution leadership with implementing strategic goals through data analysis and curriculum updating. Then implementing new academic delivery methods and planning/programming facilities to communicate the institution’s goals to architects, engineers, and contractors. John developed the institution based programming process for state agencies in Colorado.

In addition he has assisted with acquisition in excess of $1.1 billion in funding for Capital Construction in Higher Education focusing specifically in learner centered environments for the past decade. Most recently, our focus has included industry integration in collaborative learning models.

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