About Us

Quality
Our staff has won more than 50 awards for excellence in architectural design and is widely published in architectural technical journals. And Matrix IMA’s relatively small size allows our senior professionals to participate personally in all projects, thus maintaining high standards of quality and consistency.

Expertise
Matrix IMA’s professionals average more than 10 years of experience in forensic architecture and more than 25 years in architectural design, engineering coordination, and construction administration. Our architects are licensed in 18 states and Guam.

Leadership
Matrix IMA’s architects have extended the boundaries of our profession’s technical and practical knowledge. Just two examples:

Since 1996, Matrix IMA has helped pioneer a new professional role in Northern California—the neutral architect. Matrix IMA’s efforts to advance this effective model for dispute resolution include publishing articles and conducting seminars and workshops to educate owners, attorneys, and building industry professionals on the benefits of working with a neutral architect.
Matrix IMA’s senior architects lecture nationally and internationally on issues related to building in snow and cold environments.

Innovation
Matrix IMA is adept at both diagnosing problems and solving them. Just two examples:

Matrix IMA is conducting research that will inform the next generation of cold-roof designs. We are using sensors to monitor the performance of a custom-designed cold roof on one of our constructed projects in the High Sierra. Data from these sensors, which collect temperature readings every 15 minutes from key locations, formed the basis of a paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Snow Engineering in Trondheim, Norway. Learn more…
Faced with stringent code requirements governing a client’s building, Matrix IMA developed and tested a method to raise the fire rating of gypsum-board ceilings. Our system not only met our client’s needs and testing agency criteria, it was approved by the International Conference of Building Officials and published in an ICBO report as ER-5857.