 Vice
President, Practice Leader – Hospitality,
Retail
HOK Canada
With well over two decades of experience, Joe Pettipas
has a deep understanding of the challenges faced today
within the corporate, hospitality, retail, and marketing
areas of the built environment. As practice leader
of the Hospitality and Retail Focus Group at HOK Canada,
he is chiefly responsible for the ongoing relationship
between the aesthetics of design and the requirements
of producing successful projects on target, on time,
and on budget.
His primary focus markets have been Middle East
and Southeast Asia, as well as the U.S. and Latin
America.
His team has completed several benchmark large-scale
projects in countries as diverse as the United Arab
Emirates, Doha, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, mainland China,
Indonesia, Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
Project types have ranged from indoor entertainment
complexes
to large-scale shopping environments, from an addition
to an existing mall that encompassed five new hotels
to the groundwork for a city of 150,000 new inhabitants.
Pettipas has had several international speaking
engagements, has received numerous design and
effectiveness awards,
and has taught at the School of Interior Design,
Ryerson University. A past president of the Association
of
Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO),
Pettipas is an active member of the Interior Designers
of Canada,
the International Interior Design Association (IIDA),
the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID),
the Institute for Store Planners (ISP). He is a
board member of the Design Exchange as well as
the Council
for Interior Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER,
where he currently acts as chair of the board).
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