Hummel Architects
Boise, ID 83702
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ED Daniels's Bio
Ed joined Hummel 20 years ago as an Architect-in-Training and has worked his way up to one of our main Higher Ed and K-12 Principals. Ed’s particular draw to educational designstems from his passion to design facilities and spaces that encourage youth to learn, grow and thrive. As principal, Ed oversees the day-to-day aspects for our education projects and coordinates with all consultants. He’s also responsible for leading the preparation of construction documents, and observation of the construction process. Ed also leads project teams in planning, design, and production of working drawings for both new construction and adaptive reuse projects.
What Ed does in his spare time revolves around the time of year and weather. He’s an avid Nordic skier in the winter and mountain biker in the summer. Ed can also be found on the sidelines of a lacrosse field, serving as an assistant coach for North Junior High. On a given weekend, you may also find Ed spending time with his kids in McCall.
Greg Allen's Bio
With 36 years of architectural practice, Greg provides in depth and hands on experience with the evaluation, planning, and design of multiple building types. Greg’s experience with Hummel Architects brings a focus on collaborative project management and team delivery. In addition to his architectural responsibilities with the firm, Greg often works with committees representing diverse user groups where he facilitates workshops to discover common values and to help build consensus.
Outside the Hummel walls, Greg enjoys spending time with his children and grandkids, painting and working his way around a golf course from time to time.
Scott Straubhar's Bio
Scott has spent over 25 years with Hummel Architects taking part in everything from project management when he first started, to now focusing on business development and oversight of programming, planning and design efforts for new and existing clients. He believes that the roots of Hummel are founded on a variety of professionals and clients seeking built solutions to enrich how we work, learn, live and play.
Scott sees the details of collaborative discovery and designthat lead to tangible, lasting solutions as one the most fulfilling experiences you can have in the industry. He knows each client and project we encounter has a unique personality and story, which he says makes his life that much more diverse and enjoyable. When not working to tell our clients’ stories through designs and solutions, Scott takes advantage of all of Idaho’s wonderful outdoor opportunities via a pair of skis, a fly rod, a mountain bike, a road bike, and a poorly executed pitching wedge.
Operations
Brent Davies's Bio
The part of Brent’s job that really gets his juices flowing is working with clients and colleagues to bring a client’s vision to fruition. It’s gratifying for him to see the impact that well-thought-out architecture has on those who use and experience it. The relationships formed in the process are the best reward of what Brent does. As an Architect Brent finds the most valuable tool he can bring to a client is his ability to listen, synthesize and help guide the design process along to a successful conclusion.
In his downtime, Brent is hitting the hiking, running and mountain biking trails or enjoying the quiet solitude of camping with his family. He enjoys recharging outdoors, working on oil paintings or reading a good books.
Brian Coleman's Bio
Brian believes that Saul Bass said it best, “Work? It’s just serious play,” and that’s how he tries to treat each day. Brian thrives in the architectural process and seeing a facility evolve from sketch, to plans, to a physical building. In essence, that’s his specialty—making sure that process runs as smoothly and on-schedule as possible.
Brian graduated with his Masters of Architecture from University of Colorado Denver and is an avid boater, skier and lover of Nevada. When not on the slopes or lake, he spends his weekends camping (wishing it was in an Airstream).
Mandy Boam's Bio
Mandy joined the firm as an interior designer over 10 years ago and now leads the Interior Design Team as an Associate at Hummel. Mandy specializes in Healthcare and Educational programming, space planning, and interior design. She relishes research and learning more about each client’s expertise. From start to finish, Mandy enjoys taking part in Hummel’s business development and expanding our designs further into the northwest.
Outside of meeting with current and potential clients, Mandy is a champion of the local arts and culture Boise has to offer. She also enjoys the simple pleasures of a good book, dancing on not-so-rare occasions, and being in nature.
Business Development, Marketing & Sales
Halley Collings's Bio
Haley has now been at Hummel for three years. She recently joined our marketing team as an all-around graphic designguru. She assists us in creating, designing and executing proposals for our clients. Her creativity gives us unique perspective and insight on just about anything we work on. Long story short, she is a jack of all trades.
When Haley isn’t creating, she can be found spending time with her dog Zoey, snowboarding in the winter and/or enjoying time with her family in Coeur d’Alene.
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Gwen Andrews's Bio
Gwen has been with Hummel for five years as chief administrator of the our accounting department. In addition to running the numbers, she also manages all Hummel employee benefits, payroll, proper project setup and billing for all of our consultants. Gwen spends a great deal of her day analyzing Hummel present and future possibilities when it comes to cash and risk management. Long story short, when we have a question about business or personal finances, Gwen is our guru.
On the weekends and in her free time, Gwen enjoys spending time doing home improvements (interior and exterior) on her house, enjoying her 3 dogs, and spending quality time with her grandsons. A perfect day for Gwen would be exploring a new place with her family while listening to live music in the sunshine.
Jennifer Duke - Turner's Bio
The thought of designing dynamic and functional spaces for clients is what motivates and keeps Jennifer going at Hummel. She has experience with all phases of the building process and in turn, has worked with architects, interior designers, engineers and general contractors during the last 20 years of her career.
Jennifer graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Architecture and has also been known to close down Terry’s Karaoke from time to time or enjoy tapas and a glass of wine with friends. On the family front, there’s no sweeter sound to her than the crack of the bat while watching her sons hit a baseball or seeing their hand raised at the end of a wrestling match. She lives to experience new cultures and points of view via travels around the globe with (or sans) family.
Rob Beusan's Bio
Rob joined Hummel after receiving his Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Idaho. On any given day, you can find Rob at a drafting table helping our clients’ facilities take shape. At the root of it, that’s what keeps Rob coming to work each day—the idea of a design becoming reality for our clients and the opportunities to interact with creative and talented colleagues along the way.
When he’s not busy getting ink on his hands (and forearms) you can find Rob hunting, fishing, camping, hiking and enjoying an adult beverage around a campfire. And if he’s lucky he gets to do all five of those in one weekend.
YI Chang Liao's Bio
Yi Chang Liao joined the Hummel team after studying architecture in North Carolina. The thought of how people interact with a designed space keeps Yi both enthralled and committed to improving our client’s experience in a built environment. Yi says getting the chance to create those types of solutions and brainstorm ideas with colleagues is what makes him most excited about his work at Hummel.
When not digging into design solutions, Yi takes as much time to explore his surroundings as possible. He said both digital and natural worlds feed his imagination, so he tries to engage his brain in thoughtful innovative ways as much as possible.