November-December 2022 - 30

Age: 33
Employer: Walter P
Moore
Hometown: Amman,
Jordan
Alma mater:
Architectural
Association School
of Architecture,
London and Toronto
Metropolitan
University
Kais Al-Rawi, AIA
Enclosure Design Leader, Walter P Moore
As a senior associate and enclosure design leader in
the Los Angeles office of Walter P Moore, Kais Al-Rawi,
AIA, solves complex building challenges through digital
design. He has worked on a number of high-profile airport
projects including San Diego International Airport's
Terminal 1 Redevelopment; Louis Armstrong New Orleans
International Airport's new terminal building; Guadalajara
Airport Terminal 2; and the West Gates at Tom Bradley
International Terminal, Terminal 4.5 Core, and Automated
People Mover Connector at Los Angeles International
Airport. For these projects, Al-Rawi led the technical
design of the building enclosure systems, with a focus
on specialty curtainwall systems that are long-span, high
performance and resilient.
For his work, Al-Rawi was recognized as the 2020 recipient
of Walter P Moore's Javier F. Horvilleur Outstanding
Young Professional Award and was the first architect to
receive it in the firm's history.
Al-Rawi is proud of the award and noted it is rewarding
work to be part of the entire design process, from concept
to completion, of projects that span many years.
Al-Rawi holds a master's degree in emergent technologies
and design from the Architectural Association School of
Architecture in London. He is an adjunct lecturer at the
University of Southern California School of Architecture
and has taught and directed the Architectural Association
Visiting School programs in Los Angeles and Jordan with a
focus on space architecture. He served as a juror to NASA's
centennial challenge competition for Martian habitats.
Al-Rawi is excited about the future of aviation from a
technology and sustainability perspective, and how these
aspects will evolve airport design with urban air mobility,
clean energy flights as well as supersonic flights, and
how airport designs in urban settings and distributed
networks will be reimagined. " I believe there are many
exciting opportunities in the aviation and airport design
industry in the future with such advancements, " he said.
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" Airport projects are unique typology that allows designers
to create iconic architecture, and simultaneously it
is a typology that is experienced firsthand by millions of
travelers every year, " he said.
Age: 31
Employer: Tucson
Airport Authority
Hometown:
Glendale, AZ
Alma Mater:
University of Arizona;
University of
Tennessee-Knoxville
Jessie M. Allen,
Director of Marketing, Communications & External Relations, Tucson Airport Authority
Jessie Allen manages the marketing, communications
and external relations department at the Tucson Airport
Authority (TAA) with a robust focus on internal and external
relations, including board, councils, community leaders
and stakeholders, airlines, tenants, users, passengers,
customers and the TAA team.
" I absolutely love that not one day is the same. I get the
opportunity to go from the typical business functions of
partnering with local organizations on marketing agreements
to being hands-on in the terminal and helping a
I absolutely love that not
one day is the same.
passenger find their gate or a family reunite, " said Allen.
" I've had the opportunity to work with multi-million-dollar
project teams and in the process have fallen in love with
communication planning for capital improvement projects.
I appreciate the opportunity to dive into so many
different aspects from crisis communications and internal
communication efforts to air service event planning and
legislative affairs. I also get to work closely with executive
leadership, and it's a privilege to work for and with some
of the brightest minds in the industry. "
Looking to the future, she said she'd like to see airports
uniting in their efforts to innovate in terms of not just
customer experience but also sustainability.
" Promoting diversity and inclusion is easy to talk about
but is a long-term journey for organizations. In terms
of sustainability, there's something every airport can
do from recycling programs to sustainability studies
for evaluating EV charging, alternate fueling for airport
fleets, etc., " she said.
Allen has a bachelor's degree from the University of
Arizona and a master's degree from the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville. She also presently serves on ACI's
MarCom Committee.
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