Rachel Lee

About Rachel Lee

Rachel Lee, AIA, LEED AP BD+C focuses on complex Science + Technology, R+D facility projects for biotech companies, top research institutions, tech companies, and developers as project director and project manager applying strong lab planning, and strategic facility planning skills. She brings R+D laboratory design thought leadership and strategic thinking as she collaborates with innovators, researchers and facility leaders to find solutions defining new paradigm and trends in R+D facilities. Rachel’s projects include facilities for future mobilities /autonomous vehicle tech clients and facilities for Allergan, Genentech, Novartis, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Bayer, CREATE (Lab of Year 2013), Stanford University, UC San Francisco, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Auburn University. Her speaking engagements include SF AIA Design Award Projects “Stanford University Lucas center Expansion” and Tradeline “Planning for the Requirement for the New ‘Big Machine Research Instruments” and “The next-generation research facility model: Hybrid virtual-physical collaborative research without boundaries.”

Experience

1. Principal, Education, Science Advanced Technology

   HDR

   Sep 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

Education

• University of Michigan

  Master of Science (MS), Architecture

  1997 — 1999

• University of Florida

  BS Architecture, Architecture

Skills

• Project Management
• Submittals
• Urban Design
• Radio-Chemistry Lab Planning
• Construction Drawings
• Sustainability
• Sustainable Design
• Cyclotron Lab Planning
• High Power Mri Lab Planning
• Leed
• Architectural Design
• Bim
• Architecture
• Comprehensive Planning
• Design Research
• Aia
• Space-Planning
• Leed Ap
• Construction Management
• Green Building
• Revit
• Labo Planning