PROJECT RESPONSIBILITIES

Mr. Murray serves as project manager and design architect. His responsibilities include all phases of work from initial programming to construction observation.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Mr. Murray has worked for over thirty five years as project architect and project manager on numerous architectural, historic preservation, trail and streetscape projects. As a result, he is very familiar with successfully handling demanding and complex assignments in historic districts. Additionally, Mr. Murray enjoys working on the adaptive rehabilitation of older structures. His attention to the original design and construction detailing leads to innovative, durable re-use solutions. He maintains a wholistic view of his projects while attending to the details that make for successful design.

Mr. Murray’s expertise in conservation-oriented design is clear in his architectural solutions for project ranging from new construction and in-fill construction to adaptive re-use and significant historic preservation. His understanding of buildings and codes in small towns has developed from extensive experience in the older areas of Delaware, Chester and Montgomery Counties.

During his tenure with Campbell Thomas & Co., Mr. Murray has worked on several award-winning projects including many of the restorations in the Parkside Historic District. He has been involved with several historic sites within Fairmount Park. Mr. Murray worked on the planning and adaptive reuse of the Chamounix Mansion Carriage House as an expanded youth hostel facility, and contributed, as well, to the architectural and programming analysis for the Fairmount Water Works Master Plan. Campbell Thomas received the Preservation Award for the facade restoration and lobby re-design of 1908 Spruce Street which was designed and documented for construction by Mr. Murray.

Mr. Murray has also participated in several Trail Designs. He is very familiar with successfully handling demanding and complex assignments as were involved with assembling construction documents for the Philadelphia- Valley Forge Trail. Mr. Murray is quite familiar with the documentation requirements and project management techniques employed by PennDOT when working with a municipality, and he applied this specialty to projects such as the Radnor Multi-Use Trail, Chester Valley Trail, Perkiomen Trail, the Schuylkill Canal Towpath Trail, and the Adubon Loop Trail.

In addition to historic renovation and trail projects, Mr. Murray’s experience with municipally funded projects for new construction, such as the East Spring Avenue Modular Homes in Ardmore, PA, also enables him to work efficiently with the documentation requirements and project management techniques employed by funding sources.

RELATED AFFILIATIONS

National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Certified

EDUCATION

Virginia Polytechnic, Bachelor of Architecture
Villanova University, Graduate Studies in Computer Science