Paul Warkentin, RA (CA), LEED AP

Employee info

Paul Warkentin is an Associate at Davis Square Architects, and has been with the firm since 2003. He has 30 years of professional experience in the design and development of a variety of building projects and types, including historic properties.

Paul often assists owners and property managers by providing evaluations of existing properties for renovations through site visits, investigating the buildings' systems, and coordinating with engineers. Paul uses his deep experience in occupied rehab to establish the needed scope of work and budget for each potential project.

Additionally, Paul has extensive knowledge of State and Federal accessibility standards. He has conducted seminars on accessibility code compliance for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC), and has assisted EOHLC in developing accessibility review guidelines, community-based housing standards, and Universal Design requirements.

Paul has worked on a variety of housing projects, from new construction, mixed-use residential buildings in a suburban setting to the rehabilitation of historic masonry apartment buildings in Boston's South End. He managed and led the design team throughout all phases of the award-winning Carter School Apartments project, an historic adaptive reuse of a former high school into 39 units of affordable rental housing in Leominster. Paul was also the project architect for Downing Square/117 Broadway in his hometown of Arlington, which introduced two new developments comprised of 48 affordable units.