Principal

Norman Smith has over 35 years of experience in architecture, design, and construction and is the founder of Norman Smith Architecture, established in 1989, an award-winning architectural practice specializing in multi-family residential projects, single-family residential architecture and interiors work and small to mid-size commercial and public/institutional work. 

As head of Norman Smith Architecture, he is intimately involved in all aspects of the firm’s projects and is responsible for originating project design concepts and overseeing their implementation, with assistance from the firm’s respective Project Managers.  In addition to his design experience, his work in the firm includes experience in:

  • Structural integration, sizing and design
  • MPE systems integration and sizing
  • Materials and construction methods
  • Passive solar design
  • Green roof design and retrofit
  • Zoning analysis
  • Building Code analysis
  • Accessibility analysis
  • Historic Presentation Review Board presentations
  • Board of Zoning Adjustment presentations
  • Construction Administration phase provision and coordination of field inspection ASI, RFI CCD, CO, PCCO and Payment Application and supporting document reviews
  • Construct-ability and QA/QC reviews
  • Value Engineering review to meet project budget and individual budget line items
  • Project scheduling

In addition, Norman Smith has project experience in construction project management for commercial projects, construction scheduling software and estimating. He has worked with Procore and Sage PM/CA software for document and scheduling control.  He has prepared curriculum and taught courses, through Taurus Development Group, for the Green Path Way DC Weatherization program and for several Building Performance Institute (BPI) training courses.  He has also been involved in reviewing local revisions to the IBC family of code updates, has testified many times before local zoning and historic review boards and has also been accepted as an expert witness before the BZA in the District of Columbia.   He has also testified in both court and mediation proceedings.

In partnership with Taurus Development Group and the DCSEU, he has helped structure utility conservation programs and program start-up, field inspection oversight and QA/QC program development for small commercial, single family, multi-family market rate and low income housing projects.  He has acted as an Owner’s Representative as well as Architect of Record in providing and coordinating multi-family residential Construction Administration Phase field inspections for code compliance under the 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2012 International Building Code and the 2003 and 2009 ICC/ANSI Accessible buildings and Facilities Code and has also provided and coordinated inspections for as-built and in-progress compliance with Contract Documents and AHJ modifications.  He has been involved with and coordinated Third Party Review (TPR) for code compliance, Third Party Inspections (TPI) including geotechnical and foundation approvals, Special Inspections reviews under the IBC and has also handled review of ASI, RFI CCD, CO, PCCO and Payment Application and supporting document reviews.  He has also provided drawing QA/QC/Peer review analysis for governmental entities and private clients as well as construction CPM scheduling analysis for various projects.  He is registered in DC, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and New York. He is a member of the AIA and is LEED AP® certified.

Associates

Richard Zubyk has more than 20 years experience in architectural design and detailing of projects.  He has worked on a variety of building types including government and business office space, a county courthouse renovation, library addition and space planning, and EMS facility, private office buildings, mixed use buildings and apartment and condominium residential buildings. He also has field experience in geotechnical/soils and field testing.  He has a Master of Architecture degree from  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, an Associate of Science in Architectural Technology from Northern Virginia Community College and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Mary Washington College.

Christopher Odusanya has experience as a project estimator, construction project management, paperwork flow and permit in addition to his architectural expertise.  He is a recent graduate from the Catholic University of America where he received dual degrees: a Masters of Architecture with a concentration in Real Estate development  and A masters of Science in Sustainable design. He has a bachelors of Science from the Catholic University of America. Chris is an accomplished photographer and is responsible for photographing and documenting many of the firm projects.; his photographic work has also been featured and published in magazines, featured on social media and printed in large format.