Stuart Knoop has 42 years of experience in all aspects of the profession. While providing general managerial, technical expertise and support to the firm's practice, Mr. Knoop specializes in master planning, renovation and restoration, and historic preservation. He also consults on physical security design for U.S. Government agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the General Services Administration, and the Department of State at more than 60 foreign locations.

Mr. Knoop has served on three Ad Hoc committees of the National Research Council, and is currently a member of the Council's Committee for Oversight and Assessment of Blast-Effects and Related Research and the Chairman of the Committee Studying the Interagency Security Criteria (ISC). He has also served on the GSA Physical Security Panel, the VA Security Assessment Task Group, and the Steering Committee for Reducing Vulnerability of Buildings to Chemical, Biological and Radiological Attacks.

Mr. Knoop is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the Architectural Association of London, the American Society of Industrial Security, the Construction Specifications Institute, Fulbright Association, and Building Officials and Code Administrators.

Mr. Knoop received his undergraduate education at Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he earned a B. Arch., with honors, in 1956. He attended graduate school at the Architectural Association, London, England, as a Fulbright Scholar in Urban Planning.