Duncan Griffin

Senior Architect
NBBJ

Duncan Griffin is a senior architect in the Seattle office of NBBJ, a global architecture firm with a 60 year commitment to designing and building healthcare facilities. As a design and delivery leader, he has responsibility for his studio’s successful delivery of innovative, quality design which serves the essential needs of healthcare clients. Duncan was a co-founder of the Sustainable Design Group at NBBJ in 1997 and has motivated the adoption of sustainable thinking in healthcare on multiple NBBJ projects, including Overlake Hospital South Tower, Kaiser Oakland Medical Center, the University of Washington Medical Center Expansion, and Denver’s Exempla St Joseph Hospital.

 Duncanled the creation of the Sustainable Healthcare Energy Challenge research group in 2006 and has presented extensively on healthcare sustainability, at conferences including NBIS 2006, Engineering Green 2008, the Northwest Construction Consumers Conference 2008, CleanMed 2009 and CleanMed 2010. In addition to this work, Duncan is focused on better understanding the impacts of design on healthcare delivery, including ways to use BIM for simulation of healthcare practices, techniques to use digital tools to predict energy use in buildings, and means to align design solutions with the needs of a healthier healing environment.