Freelon Promotes New Associates
Lew Myers
919.941.9790
03/18/2004
Research Triangle Park, NC - The Freelon Group, an award-winning Architecture Interiors and Planning firm with offices in Research Triangle Park and Charlotte, North Carolina, is pleased to announce the following promotions:
Senior Associate-
Art Lin, Design Architect - Lin joined The Freelon Group ten years ago and currently serves as a Lead Design Architect. Over the years, his work has been recognized with numerous honors, including AIA design awards at the local, state, and regional levels.
Lin, who received a master in architecture in 1993 from Georgia Institute of Technology, incorporates his technical expertise and knowledge of varied building types to emphasize and support quality design. His most recently completed designs include the Maryland Museum of African American History and Culture in Baltimore, Maryland, and the General Aviation Terminal at RDU International Airport in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
Derek Jones, Project Manager - As Project Manager and Senior Interior Design Architect, Jones provides project management and interior design services on a wide range of project types, including corporate offices, transportation facilities, theaters, and museums.
In his 15-year career, Jones has completed projects for Kodak, Scholastic Publishing, Hewlett-Packard, and Nissan Motor Company. He is currently working on the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, California and five transit stations for the Triangle Transit Authority.
Associate-
Cindy Messick, Construction Administrator - Messick has worked within the construction industry for over twenty years. Her expertise ranges across many areas of governmental, educational, and commercial construction with particular experience in field production, cost accounting, scheduling, estimating, and construction law.
As a founding member of the NC chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), she has held numerous official positions, including Chairman for the 1999 Regional Annual Planning Conference which covered Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Messick also holds instructor's certificates from OSHA for both the General 1910 Standards and Construction 1926 Standards.
Previous projects include the Concourse A Connection at Charlotte Douglas Airport, the Facilities Services Center at Central Piedmont Community College, and Lincoln Heights and Endhaven Elementary Schools of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System.
About The Freelon Group:
The Freelon Group is an architectural firm founded in 1990 by Philip G. Freelon, FAIA, with offices in Research Triangle Park and Charlotte, North Carolina. The firm is dedicated to serving clients, the community, and its own employees in a team environment, while providing quality design solutions for the benefit of all.
Through its on-time, on-budget delivery of high-quality design projects, The Freelon Group has earned the respect and praise of both public and private sector clients with specialized design expertise in the areas of Science and Technology, Education, Museum and Cultural Center projects. The Freelon Group is ranked as the #1 architecture firm in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill by the Triangle Business Journal.