Jeff Funovits

About Jeff Funovits

Jeff has over 30 years of experience working with developers, universities and collegiate athletics. His diverse professional experience and extensive design portfolio allows him to approach projects with a balance of creative thinking and realistic, achievable design solutions that generate reliable returns for his clients.For the past decade, Jeff’s primary focus has been planning and designing collegiate athletics facilities. His thoughtful approach to design and comprehensive understanding of the business of Collegiate Athletics has cemented his role as a leader within the industry. Jeff values fostering long-term relationships with clients that are based on trust, communication and collaboration. As a market leader and mentor at Populous, Jeff excels at strengthening team dynamics and focusing on successful project deliveries. His firm-wide positions include a seat at the Americas Resource Council and as a co-chair for Business Objectives within the firm\'s internal culture initiative, Pop Together. Outside of the office, Jeff gives back to his community through his involvement in coaching youth ice hockey and his leadership with the Tickets for Kids Charities.

Experience

1. Principal

   Populous

   Sep 2015 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   At Populous, we believe in creating environments that draw people and communities together for unforgettable experiences. In the world’s top cities and on more than 120 university campuses we have designed more than projects worth $30 billion. Our designs for places like Yankee Stadium, the London Olympic Games, the Los Angeles Convention Center or Baylor University have created emotional connections between people and the civic sports and entertainment places and events they love best. The top communities entrust Populous to help build their brands through design.Our unrivaled knowledge - both visionary and technical - is unveiled through comprehensive planning and design services with experiential design at the core. Our focus includes not just the individual buildings that define a community, such as sports architecture, conference and exhibition center architecture or aviation design, but also the urban fabric that weaves these buildings together. We offer architecture, interior design, environmental graphics and wayfinding, event planning and overlay, master planning urban planning and sustainable design consulting from offices on four continents, with primary locations in San Francisco, Denver, Kansas City, Boston, London and Brisbane. We have been recognized 200 times over with global design awards, including three national American Institute of Architects awards. We also have been listed three times over as one of Fast Company magazine’s most innovative companies. Every community has a story to tell – it is our mission to give life to those stories through design. We are the people who create the places where communities unite. We are Populous.

Skills

• Design Research
• Construction
• Leed Ap
• Urban Planning
• Land Use Planning
• Sketchup
• Submittals
• Budgets
• Landscape Architecture
• Comprehensive Planning
• Program Management
• Sustainable Design
• Mixed-Use
• Project Planning
• Leed
• Leadership
• Green Building
• Revit