M.ARCH. Columbia University B.E.D. Texas A&M Brad Bell is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Arlington and the Director of the Digital Architecture Research Consortium (DARC) at UT Arlington. He researches and teaches on the integration of advanced digital technologies into the architectural design process with a focus on the use of digital fabrication and cast materials. He has lectured, taught, and written on the uses of such technologies for the past ten years and has been an invited critic at schools of architecture throughout the United States. He is co-Director of TEX-FAB (www.tex-fab.net) , a non-profit organization, providing a platform for education on digital fabrication and parametric modeling to the professional, academic and manufacturing communities in Texas. He is also a Principal at TOPOCAST LAB (www.topocastlab.com) - an experimental design and consulting practice focused on the application of digital fabrication technologies into casting methodologies. Brad is on the board of directors for ACADIA (www.acadia.org) and a founder and member of the board of directors for the Digital Fabrication Network (www.dfabnet.org). Both organizations advocate for the advancement of digital design and fabrication issues to an international audience.

As the founding Principal for TBG Partners' Dallas office, Jim Manskey has been an integral member of the leadership team for the firm since 1997. Established in 1987, TBG Partners is a landscape architecture / land planning / urban design firm with four offices throughout Texas, and a practice that has extended throughout the southwest, to both coasts and internationally. Jim is a registered landscape architect in Texas and Oklahoma, and is certified with the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB). He graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelors of Science in Landscape Architecture in 1979. Over the years Jim has cultivated a passion for designing healing environments, for which he works to create a restorative spirit of place that speaks to the needs of patients, their families and their friends. Additionally, Jim has developed an expertise in the resort development arena, with an intense interest in creating destinations that incorporate a regions unique culture and environment within a memorable experience for the guest. Recent project experience has included: JW Marriott San Antonio Resort, Spa and Golf Course - San Antonio, Texas: Principal in Charge and lead designer for a 1000 room luxury hotel / resort development that will feature a water amenities area integrated into the Hill Country environment that is reflective of memorable venues throughout the region, i.e. Pedernales Falls, Comal River experience, etc. The Harbor - Rockwall, Texas: Principal in Charge and lead designer for this award winning mixed-use development on the shores of Lake Ray Hubbard, east of Dallas. As a consultant for the City of Rockwall, TBG designed and oversaw the construction of this premier lakeside development that has become the city's entertainment venue. Hall Office Park - Frisco, Texas: Principal in Charge / Planner and Designer for this 150-acre office park development that integrates a premier lakeside office park with a world-class environmental art collection. Watters Creek - Allen, Texas: Principal in Charge and lead designer for this 42 acre urban lifestyle center, with street level retail below 3 to 5 stories of office and residential development. A central green and redeveloped creek corridor create the centerpiece public space for the project.

Marta Schantz is the Senior Vice President for the Greenprint Center for Building Performance at the Urban Land Institute. She brings deep experience in the real estate sustainability market to lead and collaborate across organizations and stakeholders to achieve program goals and successes. Marta has strengths in project management and market analysis, concentrated in both qualitative and quantitative energy and policy analysis. She has deep experience in sustainability, energy efficiency, and large-scale program management. Marta is a LEED Green Associate and a Fitwel Ambassador. She holds a B.S. in Biological Engineering with a minor in Science Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.