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Clark Patterson Lee welcomes Waite, Carty and Fagner to its Rochester team

Rochester, NY Clark Patterson Lee recently welcomed Richard Waite as landscape architect, Laurence Carty as architectural designer and Katherine Fagner as human resource benefits coordinator.

Waite, RLA, LEED AP, will be responsible for planning and designing exterior spaces. He focuses on designs that are functional and beautiful, and that contribute to a positive and memorable pedestrian response to the environment. Waite brings more than 25 years of experience in the architectural and engineering industry to the team.

Waite received his Bachelor of Arts from St. Lawrence University in 1987 and then continued his education, earning his Master of Landscape Architecture from Cornell University in 1993.

Carty will be responsible for the production of designs and drawings, from preliminary design through to construction documents. He will also be responsible for building envelope analysis to help identify the most appropriate building envelope design options for particular building designs. Before joining CPL, Carty worked as an architectural technologist for almost 11 years at two architecture firms in his hometown of Sligo on the northwest coast of Ireland.

Carty attended Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, United Kingdom, where he earned his Master of Science in architectural technology and building performance, and is working toward a second Master of Science in research in building science.

Fagner is responsible for facilitating new-hire and benefit processing, as well as employee relations. She also will be responsible for company policy development.

Fagner joins the CPL team from PharmaSmart International, where she served as human resource supervisor/global headquarters office supervisor for five years.

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