Timothy Blatner

Principal, Technical Director

A licensed architect for over 35 years, Tim serves as the firm’s Technical Director. He is responsible for document quality management, production, and specification knowledge resources, maintaining and sharing knowledge of new and evolving construction materials, continuing education programming, and mentoring staff with project documentation and construction phase contract administration. 

His work history covers a broad range of project types including multifamily housing (townhomes to high-rises), churches, an exhibition hall conference center, dining halls, fitness and recreation centers, light-industrial production and storage facilities, offices, parking structures, schools (elementary to college level), and urban infrastructure (bridges/viaducts, plazas, and streetscapes). These projects span the full spectrum of common construction types.  
  
Tim’s experience has been multi-faceted with roles as accessibility and building code analyst, contract/construction administrator, designer, peer reviewer, project architect, project manager, specifications editor, technical coordinator, and BIM advocate.  

At FitzGerald prior to his time as Technical Director, Tim was project manager for several large-scale multifamily housing projects with over 200 dwelling units each, including Arkadia, 3Eleven, The Emerson – Oak Park, and Wheaton 121, and various specialty projects.  
  
Tim enjoys serving on various church committees for 30 plus years and creative outlets beyond architecture, especially finding beauty through landscape and urban photography on family walks, collecting his daughters’ pottery and tending his bulb and perennial garden. 


EDUCATION

Master of Architecture
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Third Ryerson Traveling Fellowship;
Nathan C. Ricker Award
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Ecole des Beaux Arts, Unite Pedagogique 3 Versailles, France


MEMBER

Association of Licensed Architects (ALA) 

Building Enclosure Council (BEC), Chicago 

Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), Chicago 


AFFILIATIONS

Licensed Architect - Illinois

Construction Document Technologist (CDT) Construction Specifications Institute

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