Raths, Raths & Johnson Inc. (RRJ), a national engineering, architecture, and forensics consulting firm, located in Willowbrook, Ill., is pleased to announce that Andrea L. Baird, AIA, LEED AP BD+C has joined the company as an architect. In this role, she will be responsible for providing building enclosure consulting services and technical management of projects across RRJ's forensic architectural practice.
Andrea Baird has eight years of architectural experience specializing in the evaluation and repair design of building enclosure components and systems, field testing of air/water infiltration, and architectural and structural design for new and existing buildings. Andrea’s building enclosure expertise has focused in the areas of peer review, remedial design, performance testing, construction quality assurance programs, and litigation support on related failures. She brings extensive knowledge in THERM, WUFI, and other types of computer simulation to perform the analysis of building enclosure performance.