Professional Profiles: Rick Alfandre 2016

Name: Rick Alfandre - 2016
Title: President
Company: Alfandre Architecture, PC
Location: New Paltz, NY
Birthplace: White Plains, NY
Family: Wife and twin daughters
College: BA SUNY New Paltz; M.Arch Virginia Tech
First job unrelated to your current field: Bartender, retail stock clerk
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? We specialize in and are advocates of, high performance and environmentally responsible green building design and construction. We offer a comprehensive range of architecture services, from initial planning concepts through the completion of construction.
Alfandre Architecture looks forward to our continued success as a leader in the design and construction of sustainable commercial and residential buildings.
Hobbies: Photography, gardening, beekeeping
Keys to success: Collaboration, future thinking, building for our future generations. Thinking as the great Iroquois Peacemaker said, “To make decisions and choices in the context of how they will affect the next seven generations.” Perseverance and patience.
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Scientist, most likely in biology and ecology