Bruce Zavos, AIA, NCARB

As President, Bruce provides guidance for all of ZA+D’s projects and leadership in implementing the firm’s core values and objectives. He has been an architect for over thirty years and has focused his talents on community oriented projects and building a practice representative of his ideals.

With his organizational and management abilities, he has led his eponymous firm to numerous design and preservation awards incorporating both high design ideals and sustainable design objectives. The source of Bruce’s continuing success has resulted from his ability to listen, creatively problem solve and engage the community and stakeholders in the design process.

Bruce is also deeply involved in the welfare of his community and serves on numerous boards and organizations.

Hannah Weikel, ASID, LEED® AP

Hannah joined the firm in 2004 after earning a bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Architecture from Longwood University. With over 16 years of experience with the firm, she earned her NCIDQ Certification and became a LEED® Accredited Professional. Hannah was then appointed Director of ZA+Dinteriors, making her the only in-house certified interior designer.

Specializing in interior finish selection, space planning, and design models, Hannah has served a wide range of residential, educational, medical, housing and commercial clients and prides herself on satisfying each end user. Working closely with every project type and phase has made her a well-rounded design professional.

Karen Davis

Karen has been with ZA+D since its establishment in 2003. With over 30+ years of administrative and managerial experience, she deftly maintains the business side of the firm and keeps the office running efficiently.  Her knowledge of office functions extends from human resources, contracts, accounting, and CA functions.  You may still find her at a jobsite performing a site measure-up or a walking a punch for a project in construction administration.  Prior to coming to ZA+D, Karen worked in the Construction industry for over 6 years.

Karen is now turning over her administrative functions to Callie Hart, Administrative Manager and has become ZA+D’s Director of Business Development and Marketing where she will lead the charge in establishing solid new and existing client relationships, along with keeping ZA+D in the public eye.

When not working, you can find Karen either teaching horseback riding lessons at a local farm or at her own horse boarding facility in Frederick County.

Forrest Popkin, RA

Tim Bain

Tim re-joined the ZA+D family in February of 2021 after working on the Eastern Shore for the past few years as a Project Manager. His past experience includes working in all fields of architecture ranging from small to large scale projects. He strives on team work and being able to produce a comprehensive and thorough set of drawings. Tim currently has his Masters of Architecture degree from Norwich University located in Vermont, and is currently on his path to licensure, in which he hopes to obtain soon.

You can find Tim at the local dirt racing track or visiting the local breweries on the weekend. Some other hobbies include camping and hiking in the mountains when the weather is nice or playing percussion in the local community band.

Emily Lally, CPHC

Liam Fox

Liam started with the firm in the Fall of 2018. Before that he worked in the construction field as both an estimator and an engineer. While working construction he attended Morgan State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Environmental Design.

Some of his interests are listening to music, wood working, and on the weekend going out on hikes. He is excited to bring some of his experience and ideas to the ZAD team.

Will Eckard

Will has been with the ZA+D family since 2018. His passion for architecture began at an early age as he traveled to job sites with his father. Being able to experience the field work at an early age made him want to pursue a career in design. Will is still in school working toward a Bachelor of Science in Architecture while focusing his studies on sustainable design.

When he graduates he wants to take what he learned from standard such as passive house and LEED to bring more sustainable design practices to the company’s future projects.
In free time, Will enjoys, going the gym, Hiking, and playing board games. Whenever he has a chance to travel, you can expect that he will take it. He believes the ability to travel to experience culture and architectural design around the world is key to a future in understanding successful design practices.

Callie Hart

Callie rejoined ZA+D in February, 2021. She has brought back over 10 years of extensive knowledge and experience to the administrative team. Her ongoing skillset and current responsibilities range from project contracts, construction administration functions, accounts receivable and payable functions, billing, accuracy of project dynamics to maintain client satisfaction, build operations and anything in between.

Callie was born and raised in Maryland and has been a resident of Hagerstown, Maryland for over 10 years. In her spare time, she enjoys vacationing with her husband, and children, but most of her spare time is spent watching her son steal second on the baseball field and sitting in the audience at her daughter’s dance recitals.