Donald Garber, AIA, NCARB, PJM-1

Don Garber is an accomplished process architect and team leader with 40 years of technical design and project management experience. He has worked extensively in the planning, design, and delivery of pharmaceutical and life sciences facilities, spending the last decade serving as a senior capital project management executive and owner’s representative for Johnson & Johnson (J&J).

After a childhood spent fort-building and woodworking, Don visited Fallingwater as a teen and fell in love with architecture as a career path. His deep professional background includes roles in firms large and small and design for over 200 completed life sciences and healthcare assignments. He thinks strategically and leads complex teams to optimize facility design, delivery, and performance. Don believes that people are Precis’ most valuable resource and that fostering a strong company culture cultivates authentic, sincere, service-based performance and customer relationships.

Don has been married for nearly 40 years and has two grown sons, one of which did a mechanical engineering co-op at Precis. Don enjoys skiing, golf, dancing with his wife to 80s R&B, and working on renovation projects at home. He has been a past guest critic for architecture studios at the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, Drexel University, and Pennsylvania State University.