Tom is a principal with Leers Weinzpafel Associates, recipient of the national AIA Firm Award. Tom leads the mass timber practice at LWA and his projects include the John W. Olver Design Building at University of Massachusetts Amherst, recipient of AIA Honor Award and AIA Cote Top Ten Award, and Adohi Hall at University of Arkansas, recipient of the AIA Housing Award. He received the inaugural Timber Education Prize from ACSA and has led Timber Development Workshops for faculty across accredited schools of architecture in the US. Tom is currently a professor of practice in mass timber design and research at Auburn University. Tom was educated at the University of Virginia and Harvard University.