Ewing Cole

Andrew Jarvis, AIA, LEED AP

Principal

Andy has dedicated his 30 year career to inventive healthcare facility design, with a specialization in cancer care. His designs depart from traditional solutions and instead seek to enrich the patient experience, improve caregiver effectiveness and maximize energy efficiency. He is well respected among clients for his pragmatic ingenuity, and his collaborative way of leading healthcare providers to innovative yet realistic design decisions. Andy’s creativity and leadership have resulted in many awards and recognition for EwingCole. “I love solving the spatial and technological puzzles of healthcare construction in ways that delight patients and the people who care for them.”

John Gerbner, AIA, LEED AP

Principal

With 30 years experience in the planning, design, and coordination of healthcare, government, and institutional projects, John also continues to lead clients in achieving a high level of quality while meeting functional, budget, and schedule goals.

Natalie Miovski, AIA, LEED AP

Principal, Director of Healthcare

Natalie designs complex, highly specialized healthcare environments. Her design experience includes system-wide strategic/master planning, replacement facilities, and freestanding health centers. Ms. Miovski works closely with, not only physicians, staff, patients, and administration, but also with industry leaders to understand the work process, current and future trends and specific aspirations of each stakeholder. “Serious focus on ‘staff-friendly’ design not only elevates patient care, satisfaction, and outcomes but also greatly improves a facilities bottom line.”

John Capelli, AIA

Principal

For John and his clients, it is the merging of responsibility and accountability. Each project stakeholder has goals and desired outcomes that can easily become lost in the shuffle of decisions and tasks required to occur on a project. Simplifying this process enables everyone to focus on what they do best while collaborating in an environment that marries the best of business and art. Whether it is a small 5000 square foot retro-fit or 400,000 replacement tower and everything in between John has successfully orchestrated teams of owners, users, builders and design professionals to deliver outstanding results day in and day out. “As architects we have an opportunity through the design process to facilitate consensus and transformational change in support of the care and healing of people.”

James Wolters, AIA

Principal

Jim brings his leadership expertise to the management of the largest and most complex projects in EwingCole’s Healthcare practice. Drawing on twenty-eight years of experience in planning, design, and construction technology and a hands-on, roll-up-the sleeves approach, he forges the contributions of each professional into the effective team needed to move a project to completion. A Principal at EwingCole, Jim has been with the firm for fifteen years.

Mary Frazier, AIA, LEED AP

Healthcare Planner

Mary’s superior interpersonal skills and thoughtful analysis have consistently led clients to design solutions that are extraordinary in their simplicity, economy and beauty. An experienced health care planner with a particular interest in the design and operations of Emergency Departments, Mary also excels at the integration of medical technologies in the design of comforting spaces for patients. Mary holds a Bachelor of Marketing with honors from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor of Architecture degree with honors from Drexel University. She was the recipient of the Stewardson Thesis Silver Prize from Drexel University. “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”

Michael Lehman, AIA

Principal

"Healthcare is a serious business and healthcare construction can have its tense moments, but good people, good organization and good humor can produce great results."

Saul Jabbawy,

Director of Design

Saul believes the fundamental driver for designing healthcare facilities lies in the notion of “kindness to strangers”. Healthcare facilities serve individuals undergoing extreme stress due to illness. Their caregivers perform some of the most demanding jobs in our society. To Saul, addressing the well-being of these “strangers” through the design of functional yet elegant and soothing environments is one of the most gratifying roles in the building industry. He brings his training in architecture and landscape architecture to the design process in order to create a seamless experience between the exterior landscape and image of the building to the interior public and medical spaces. He has designed a variety healthcare projects ranging from a new 300,000 square foot hospital pavilion and a new front entrance, to the a new center for medical education . “A facility’s spatial quality, both functional and visual, echoes in the patient’s and caregiver’s mind, from the first glimpse of the building on the site, to the moment of arrival, and into the smallest exam room. The most exciting part of my role as designer is to walk with them.”

David Gordon, PE

Principal

Dave is an HVAC engineering expert in all healthcare facility types, including Operating Room Suites, Emergency Departments, Cancer Centers, Patient Care Towers, and Central Sterile Processing Departments, to name a few. His logical, no nonsense approach to engineering enables him to create practical, energy efficient, designs that meet all performance requirements, and are easily maintained. “I enjoy working through the complexities of healthcare engineering, and the satisfaction of providing solutions that are efficient, economical, and long lasting for our clients”.

Mary Alcaraz, PE, LC, CEM, LEED AP

Principal, Director of Lighting Design

Mary has nearly 20 years of experience specializing in healthcare electrical engineering, lighting design and energy management. Mary understands the importance of integrating reliability and redundancy into healthcare electrical systems. She uses the power of light to create interesting and inviting architectural spaces that are sensitive to the specific needs of each application. She believes that architectural spaces should balance both natural daylight and quality lighting applications. She works to integrate beautiful lighting with effective energy efficiency. Mary has received lighting awards for many projects, including the IIDA Award of Merit in 2008 for Geisinger’s Center for Health Research, and presents on energy efficiency topics nationally. “I believe in creating sustainable healthy buildings for patients. Utilizing the power of natural light and integrating technology seamlessly into facilities is important for holistic architecture.”