Acentech Names Benjamin Markham President

CAMBRIDGE — Acentech introduced that it has appointed Benjamin Markham, LEED AP as President, succeeding Jeffrey Zapfe, Ph.D., President of Acentech since 2011. Zapfe will proceed as a Principal, offering challenge management within the agency’s Noise & Vibration Group.

Markham is a flexible acoustics skilled, lecturer, and trade chief. Markham’s consulting profession at Acentech started in 2002 as an acoustician, and he has been a Principal and the director of Acentech’s Architectural Acoustics Group since 2012. Beneath his path, the group has thrived and grown considerably in its workers dimension, income, and innovation – significantly Acentech’s 3DListening® expertise – into one of many largest acoustical practices in the US. As new President, efficient 3 February 2023, Markham will present management of company operations and efficiency, and direct Acentech’s nationwide progress technique to develop its model and market share throughout the AEC trade.

“Ben’s inclusive management type, AEC trade data and impeccable consumer service had been on the core of why he was chosen as President. He brings confirmed efficiency outcomes to this function to steer our progressive agency to future progress,” mentioned Dr. Zapfe. Markham added, “As I look forward as President and my journey of the final 20 years, I’m grateful to Jeff for his considerate stewardship in guiding our progress and tradition of innovation into the observe we’re at this time.”

Markham has consulted with lots of of architects and homeowners on award-winning tasks over 20 years, addressing architectural acoustics and noise management for efficiency areas, academic, industrial, and civic amenities. Profession highlights embody the design of the 1,300-seat live performance corridor at Sala Sinfonica Pablo Casals, residence of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra; the Artwork of Americas enlargement to the Museum of Superb Arts, Boston; and the historic renovation of Cary Memorial Corridor, Lexington, Massachusetts, residence to the Lexington Symphony.

He regularly speaks and writes about room acoustics, sound isolation, live performance corridor and music rehearsal area acoustics, and environmental noise management. Markham co-authored the American Institute of Metal Development (AISC) Design Information 30: Sound Isolation and Noise Management in Metal Buildings. He has offered internationally on library acoustics and on computational acoustics modeling analysis, on the Live performance Corridor Analysis Group’s Summer season Institute on incorporating adjustable acoustical components in remedial tasks, and at dozens of different conferences.

All through Markham’s profession, he has been dedicated to the instructing of architectural acoustics. He has taught at MIT’s College of Structure since 2012, and has lectured at Cornell’s School of Structure, Harvard’s Graduate College of Design, and plenty of others.

Markham earned his Grasp of Science in Architectural Acoustics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2008, and his Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton College in 2002. He’s a LEED Accredited Skilled and is an energetic member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) serving on the Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics and on the board of the Acoustical Society Basis. He was chosen in 2019 for the distinguished “Prime 20 underneath 40” record each in Engineering Information File’s Nationwide and New England Version. (Photograph Title: Benjamin Markham, LEED AP, President, Acentech; Photographer: ©2023 Photograph by Cindy M. Lavatory)

The announcement of Markham’s Presidency marks the end result of Acentech’s expanded management with new leaders within the agency’s Architectural Acoustics and Know-how Teams, Advertising and marketing, and Human Sources.

Principals Jonah Sacks and Ioana Pieleanu have been promoted to Administrators of Acentech’s Architectural Acoustics Group in twin management roles. Sacks serves as Group Director-Observe and Pieleanu serves as Group Director-Consumer Relations. Every is an skilled acoustician and extremely educated musician with over 20 years of expertise, chargeable for challenge management, technical excellence, and consumer improvement.

Principal, Corey Salvatore, CTS was just lately promoted to Director of Acentech’s Know-how Group chargeable for enterprise technique and consulting operations.

Kate Brannelly, FSMPS, CPSM joined Acentech in a brand new function of Strategic Advertising and marketing Officer chargeable for enterprise and advertising technique and implementation. Stacey Micka, SCP joined Acentech as Director of Human Sources, chargeable for human sources, expertise administration, and EDI initiatives.

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