(Houston) March 11, 2010 –Page Southerland Page, LLP, an international architecture and engineering firm, continues to transform its practice, not only through the markets it serves but, more importantly, through the promotion of a new generation of leaders. Three associate principals – Robert E. Burke, Arturo Chavez and Thomas C. McCarthy – have been elevated to principal, and each will each assume a significant role in directing the future of this 112-year-old, multidisciplinary firm.

Robert E. “Bob” Burke, PE, LEED
Bob joined PageSoutherlandPage in 1987 as a design engineer in the Austin office and since 2005 he has served as Director of Operations for the Austin Office, as well as Project Director/Manager for selected clients. He was named Associate Principal in 2008. During his 26-year engineering career he has played a leading role in developing buildings which have had a significant impact on Austin and the surrounding area, including the Austin-Bergstrom Airport Terminal Building, the Austin Convention Center and expansion, Computer Sciences Corporation and Seton Medical Center. He also has served as Project Manager or Quality Control Manager for a number of recent prominent projects including the Hewlett-Packard data centers and the AMLI on 2nd mixed-use high-rise residential project in Austin’s 2nd Street Retail District, as well as the development of the entire Retail District. Through the extensive national and international work at PageSoutherlandPage, he has also played a similar role with a much larger geographical reach, such as Aviano AFB Hospital in Italy and the master plan for the Samsung Line 17 and 18 in Seoul, South Korea. During his career at PageSoutherlandPage, Bob has been involved in developing some of the firm’s most energy efficient and sustainable projects, such as the recently completed LEED Gold Certified Four Points Centre. Bob received his Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

Arturo “Art” Chavez, AIA, LEED
Art joined the Houston office of PageSoutherlandPage as Director of Design in 1995, building on his already substantial experience working on a wide variety of building types for both domestic and international clients. Through his embrace of Houston’s global community and his dedication to recruiting architects who reflect the cultural diversity of the city, Art has developed a design studio composed of designers and architects from around the world. In Houston, Art has led the design of such projects as the renovation and restoration of the historic Rice Hotel, the first of many projects in downtown Houston, including the PageSoutherlandPage office. Art has provided design leadership on other prominent Houston area projects such as the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Training Center, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Pickens Academic Tower and Methodist West Houston Hospital. He has led design teams for PageSoutherlandPage projects in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East, including the Millennium Tower in Dakar, Senegal, the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra, Ghana and the Presidential Library for the President of Equatorial Guinea. Art is a graduate of the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, where he has taught design studios and was named to the Architecture Alumni Hall of Fame in 2000.

Thomas C. McCarthy, AIA, LEED
Thomas joined the Houston office of PageSoutherlandPage in 1997, bringing a passion for architecture as well as a strong business acumen. During an 18-month sabbatical in 1999 and 2000, he explored more than 20 countries and examined issues of modernization and commercialism in architecture and the urban fabric. In 2000, he joined the PageSoutherlandPage Washington, D.C., office. He was named Associate Principal in 2008. Thomas has overseen more than one hundred diverse projects spanning six continents. He managed the design of the Echelon buildings in Alexandria, Virginia, a complex of high-rise residential towers that serve as models for transit-oriented, sustainable growth. He also oversaw base camp design for United Nations peacekeeping support in Darfur; a laboratory and academic building at George Mason University’s Prince William Campus in Manassas, Virginia; and numerous commercial office buildings in the Washington Metropolitan area including Carlyle Place, Carlyle Square, 600 13th Street, NW, the Silver LEED Certified Navy League Headquarters and Eisenhower Gateway. Thomas is a LEED accredited professional with a commitment to sustainability and responsible stewardship of global resources. Since 2006, all of his federal projects have been designed to achieve LEED certification, including more than a dozen U.S. Embassy and Consulate compounds worldwide, where novel approaches are demanded due to local capabilities and practices. He received a B.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, where he double-majored in Finance and Real Estate Development, and earned a M.Arch, with honors, from the University of Houston College of Architecture where he was inducted into Tau Sigma Delta Architectural Honor Society.

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