Julia Bourke Architecture Inc. provides the benefits of a large firm in terms of experience and the focus on client service and consistency that only a small firm can provide.  Led by Julia Bourke and her new associate Peter Clark, with assistance from the long time head of studio, associate Simon Jones, the firm adjusts its staff size to suit project needs. As well as maintaining a core resource network of specialist consultants, including past partner and hospital specialist Jerry Miller and Mechanical Engineer Kevin Hydes,  who shares studio space at 460 Sainte Catherine West.  

Julia Bourke

Julia Bourke is one of Canada’s pre-eminent Green building advocates with a long history of leadership as principal of the research-based design practice Julia Bourke Architecture Inc. as well as through teaching and public service. She personally offers consulting services in Green design, workshop facilitation, and LEED certification in addition to the full architectural, master planning and interior design services offered by her firm. With project experience in France, India, the Caribbean and Mexico, as well as Canada and the US, Ms. Bourke offers a broad perspective and a knowledge-base founded on a diversity of climates, cultures and building conditions.  She combines distinct design flair with a sharp analytical mind.  Clients also value her compassionate open-minded nature and attentiveness to detail.

Ms. Bourke received her B.A. from Harvard University, her Masters in Architecture from Princeton, and is an architect registered in numerous states and provinces. She is a LEED accredited professional, and has participated in LEED Gold and Platinum projects, as well as a LEED for Homes pilot project now underway. More significantly, she has contributed to the development of LEED through her tenure as a board member of the Canada Green Building Council, and her participation in the Council’s LEED Steering Committee. Bourke’s understanding of passive design principles and her experience with off-grid projects have furthermore led her to be acknowledged as a ‘net-zero’ specialist, as attested to by her contribution to the ‘net-zero’ demonstration housing project within Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic village. Adjunct Professor at McGill University School of Architecture from 1991 to 2007 where she distinguished herself in sustainable design, Ms. Bourke received a five year grant to teach sustainability in an interdisciplinary context. She is an experienced lecturer and critic, is widely published, and has received two ACT program innovation awards as well as a design award from the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction.

Peter Clark

Peter Clark, an international leader in sustainable development and green design, is a founding partner of blueandyellow.ca. He brings a wealth of experience in resort, institutional and commercial development, renovations, property management and operations in Canada and Mexico. Having been intimately involved in a wide range of roles in the real estate sector:

·                     independent facilitator

·                     sustainability/green advisor – design, construction and operations

·                     technical advisor

·                     Owner representative

·                     property developer

·                     property manager

·                     construction manager

·                     planner/programmer

·                     lead architect

he is uniquely qualified to guide Owners in achieving solutions that maximize value through space-efficient design, cost-effective detailing and specifications, right-sizing equipment, reduced operating costs through energy and water efficiency, reduced maintenance requirements, and by leaving a legacy of beautiful and healthy buildings that Owners will cherish and reuse again and again over time. 

Before establishing blueandyellow.ca, Peter Clark was Loreto Bay Company’s Director of Sustainability, located on site in Baja California Sur, Mexico. He provided leadership on many initiatives aimed at economic, social and environmental regeneration and sustainability at the Villages of Loreto Bay, the largest sustainable resort community under development in North America – www.loretobay.com. 

Previously he was active in British Columbia for 10 years as a practicing architect to the private sector and 16 years providing facilitation, project management and professional advisory services to the public sector (the former BC Buildings Corporation, www.bcbc.bc.ca), specializing in technical advice (building envelope, commercial and institutional interiors), sustainable development and high performance green building design, construction and operations. 

Peter was responsible for Canada's first LEED® Gold project, the Vancouver Island Technology Park, as technical advisor and later as construction manager on site infrastructure and tenant improvements. He was LEED advisor and green building strategist on many health care, public safety, community, cultural and justice projects in British Columbia between 2002 and 2005. He was instrumental in the Inn at Loreto Bay becoming the first hotel in Baja California to achieve the challenging Green Globe 21 certification in September 2008. 

He was a founding member of the LEED BC Steering Committee, which adapted LEED for British Columbia. One of the early board members of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, Peter was one of the advocates leading the effort to form the Canada Green Building Council. He was also a founding board member of the Mexico Green Building Council. 

Peter is a registered architect (British Columbia, Canada) trained at the Architectural Association in London, UK and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is both a USGBC LEED® 2.0 Accredited Professional (2003) and a CaGBC LEED® 1.0 Accredited Professional (2005). 

A team player and a dynamic speaker with an engaging sense of humor, Peter is working for a future that reflects a genuine care for people, the environment, and seeks imaginative solutions that realize economic value through collaboration, creativity and the pursuit of excellence.

Simon Jones  BArch, CaGBC 

Simon has a diverse and profound experience of design and construction at the residential scale, including ten years of involvement in sustainable design projects.  He has worked on projects both as a designer and as a builder, in Montreal, Ireland and Ottawa. 

In Ireland, Simon was project designer for the ‘Thomas Street Development’ a mixed-use residential-commercial infill project in the heart of Dublin, overseeing the construction documents and site supervision of the project for a design-build consortium of investors, architect and builders.  Located on a busy Thomas street at one level, and onto Oliver Bond Street at another level at the back of the project, the project included in its program a commercial parking component (accessed by the back street), street level commercial on Thomas street, and two bars of residential units above, both accessed by entry on the main street.  A heritage building on the site, fronting onto Thomas Street, was preserved and became the main entry point of the new development. 

In collaboration with Julia Bourke, Simon has worked on numerous sustainable design projects, including strawbale houses in Montreal and Kahnawake, passive-solar, naturally ventilated houses in Westport, NY, Valdurn Quebec, and Métis-sur Mer, Quebec, the masterplan for a sustainable community at Kahnawake (of which the strawbale house was the prototype construction for the neighbourhood), and the Waposite Ecolodge.  The Waposite ecolodge project builds on the initiative of a couple in the Cree community of Oujé Bougoumou to develop a proto-industry of cultural tourism.  The project program is to provide an accommodation facility for the tours, thus participating in sustaining the local population and promoting economic development.  The project supports the cultural focus by taking inspiration in form from the tradition structures of the Cree, and by integrating sustainable design features such as alternative renewable energy sources (passive and active solar, wind, wood), non-toxic and renewable materials, local materials, familiar construction techniques and building systems, simple design strategies, minimal operations requirements, and solid building materials. 

Simon is actively involved in the promotion and education of sustainable design as a lecturer, professor, expert counsel, and member of the green building design community.  He is active in the CaGBC Education Committee – subcommittee to develop facilitation training workshops for students, professional and contracting authorities.  He was/is also actively involved, as the lead faculty member from the McGill University School of Architecture, in advising a tri-university consortium (TEAM MONTREAL) which participated in the US Department of Energy sponsored Solar Decathlon 2007, placing 8th out of the 20 international university teams at the competition on the National Mall in Washington, DC in October 2007.