Jesse Given, AIA
About:
For more than 30 years, Jesse Given has reshaped the look and functionality of Californian healthcare facilities through innovative design projects that uniquely focus on the end user and improve the way that hospitals and other healthcare facilities operate.
Given began his career in architecture at the Phillips Jansen Group in New York City, before relocating to New Mexico where he spent two years working for Lloyd and Tryk Architects. Jesse eventually settled in California in 2000 and spent several years working in residential architecture, designing custom homes for celebrities and notable residents throughout Southern California.
Realizing the opportunity to utilize his architectural talents for a greater purpose, Jesse founded Given Design Group (GDG) in 2005 to specifically focus on healthcare architecture. Under Jesse’s leadership, GDG established itself as the industry’s first design firm specializing exclusively in healthcare architecture, focused on hospitals, nursing centers and other facilities within the healthcare sector. In doing so, Given Design Group is considered a leading expert on facility updates and development under the guidelines of California HCAI (Department of Health Care Access and Information), the regulating body that governs the healthcare industry on the state level, formerly known as OSHPD.
One of the key differentiators of GDG is the firm’s ability to leverage extensive experience and knowledge of HCAI procedures, permitting requirements and guardrails simplify the process of building, modifying and expanding healthcare facilities throughout California. This unique capability, combined with GDG’s personal, client-focused approach, offers a streamlined approach to healthcare facility development. GDG combines architecture and design phases along with engineering, permitting and construction management, delivering a complete turnkey process for redesigning or expanding healthcare facilities.
Under Jess’s leadership, GDG has grown from a home business to separate offices in both Orange County and Silicon Valley, overseeing a large team of architects, project managers, job captains, project coordinators and other professionals.
Specialty:
HCAI Specialist.
Technical Skills:
AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Office Suite, Procore, 3D Hand Sketchs, Team Building Skills.
Experience:
Healthcare Architecture.
Areas of service:
Southern and Northern California
License information:
California