Mark Walsh
Principal, Global Director of Technical Design Perkins & Will
Mark is an architect with thirty years of experience in design and coordination for all phases of project design and delivery, from programming and pre-design through construction contract administration. Mark’s experience includes numerous project types, including higher education, K-12 education, corporate, commercial, civil, cultural, transportation, healthcare, science and technology, sports and recreation and corporate interiors.
As Perkins&Will’s Firmwide Director of Technical Design, Mark focuses on developing a culture that delivers design and technical excellence while embracing innovative delivery and construction techniques and seeking to improve efficiency across all aspects of the Firm’s work. Mark also chairs the Firm’s Project Delivery Council and Firmwide Technical Design Community.
Mark is a co-founder of the Perkins&Will Innovation Incubator and has been an active member of the selection and oversight committee since the program’s inception in 2010.
Seminars
- Aligning regional and office specific quality practices under a single framework to balance local flexibility with consistent delivery standards
- Improving communication and knowledge sharing between distributed teams to elevate performance across all locations
- Measuring and maintaining consistency in quality programs across diverse project types, markets and locations while sustaining innovation
- Discovering how firms are evolving checklists from rigid templates to streamlined tools
- Simplifying checklists to highlight critical priorities first without overloading teams with unnecessary detail
- Structuring multi-tiered review processes to build accountability across teams
