John Capelli
Principal & Shareholder, EwingCole
- Role
- Director of Government Practice Principal at EwingCole
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About John Capelli
I am an architect currently serving as the Director of the Government Practice as well as a principal in the firm’s healthcare practice. Since 1990 I have worked at EwingCole, a 470-person architecture and engineering firm that is dedicated to exploring and designing inventive solutions to complex projects that better our clients’ everyday life, our community, and our world. As the leader of the firm\'s government practice and a member of our healthcare team I have been actively involved in the management and leadership of large, technically sophisticated projects and teams since 1997. As the executive in charge of the government practice, my responsibilities have included the development and execution of a national business plan since 2012 while concurrently serving as managing principal on select projects.Over the years I have been successful in operations and management at both a corporate and studio level, while maintaining a mix of private and public-sector clients. With the help of a strong team, several of my projects have been recognized with awards from the architecture profession and respective client industries.In the Federal market I have been the Managing Principal and Project Manager for a wide variety of DoD / VA Clients since 2005. In the last fifteen years, I have managed multiple Indefinite Delivery and Building specific contracts for USACE New York, all three of USACE\'s Medical Support Teams and NAVFAC. At the same time, I have been fortunate enough to lead a series of complex private sector projects at the Children\'s Hospital of Philadelphia and Cooper University Health Care.My recent project experience includes twenty years of medical planning, design and construction for DHA,$ 500 M in CBUP and ABUP projects at USMA, DBIA award winning work for the ICC-Bethesda, in addition to large scale private sector work for Cooper University Health Care and Catholic Health.I have been a shareholder since 1998 and currently serve on the firm\'s Board of Directors. This current term started in 2014, with my first term from I am a member of the 401k Board Committee and the Development Board Committee.Please see the Project links below for representative highlights from my portfolio.
Experience
Director of Government Practice Principal
Apr 2012 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US
I am responsible for the development and leadership of a national A/E government practice in addition to sustaining key Mid-Atlantic healthcare clients. A hands-on principal for clients and projects across the country. In concert with my partners, our practice supports a diversity of client needs – strategic planning, master & facility planning, building design, construction, and post occupancy support. The Government practice grew 30% in Net Service Revenue between 2017 and 2021 and currently has 11 Prime A/E Contracts with 8 different Federal Agencies through a combination of EwingCole prime and strategic teaming relationships.Skill set includes Project Leadership, Programming, Planning and Management. Federal Clients: USACE - New York, USACE - Little Rock, USACE - Norfolk, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center - Huntsville, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Veteran Affairs Medical Center Washington, DC, and NAVFAC Southwest.Private Sector Clients: Catholic Health and Cooper University Health Care.
Education
The Catholic University of America
BS, Architecture
1980 — 1984
University of Pennsylvania
Master, Architecture
1984 — 1987
The Wharton School
Certificate in Business Administration
1992 — 1994
Skills
- Construction Drawings
- Leadership
- Mixed-Use
- Leed Ap
- Sustainable Design
- Building Information Modeling (Bim)
- Adaptive Reuse
- Management
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (Leed)
- Architectural Design
- Mep
- Construction
- Project Planning
- Architecture
- Comprehensive Planning
- Bim
- Submittals
- Building Codes
- Architectural Drawings
- Design Management
- Renovation
- Design Research
- Sustainability
- Historic Preservation
- Interior Design
- Site Plans
- Leed
- Interior Architecture
- Construction Management
- Green Building
- Aia
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