JORGE CHARNECO, AIA, NCARB
 PRESIDENT & MANAGING PRINCIPAL

With 30+ years of experience, Jorge has designed $1.3B+ of highly technical facilities and provides a broad range of strategic programming, planning, design, and project management services for MILES’ corporate, academic, healthcare, and institutional clients. His collaborative and client-centric design process facilitates the development of functional, innovative, and transformative design solutions to meet our client’s most technical needs. Jorge’s great appreciation for the art, science, and social impact of architecture fosters his empathetic and interdisciplinary design approach, as well as his strong desire to strengthen communities and promote advances in the fields we serve. As the firm’s president and managing principal, he provides leadership to steward a proactive design and project management process while ensuring a 40+ year legacy of design excellence, client commitment, and serving others is successfully continued.

Over the past decade, Jorge has led many of the firm’s most challenging national and international projects. This technical experience has earned him national recognition including multiple appointments to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Special Emphasis Panels and an appointment to the NIH Scientific and Technical Review Board for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Facilities. He is frequently invited to share his knowledge by speaking at local, national, and international professional conferences including his Global Connections in Laboratory Design presentation at the 2017 International Lab Design Conference in Madrid, Spain.