EYES WIDE OPEN. LOOKING FORWARD. FOR THE LONG TERM.
OBSERVATION:
Experience will replace accumulation
Supportive action will replace consumptive action
Deeper connection will replace distraction.
Concurrently, the present and future needs of our communities, individuals, businesses, and cultural entities are changing rapidly.
Re:Fab is driven by a philosophy based on the belief that buildings are to be consciously created to fulfill our deep desire for beauty, inspiration, peace, wellness, creativity, productivity, and abundance.
Re:Fab believes that form follows fiction:
As such, the collaborative process of building creation follows a unique and broad narrative drawn from observation and information of and from the building user, site, community, culture, and commerce.
As buildings currently represent a significant demand on our energy and environmental resources, it is a fundamental responsibility of Re:Fab to provide the offsetting sustainability requirements as inextricably intertwined with a new building’s ‘DNA’.
PROVOKE INNOVATION:
A productivity crisis exists:
Productivity in design and building is declining while increasing in sectors such as computing technology, renewable energy, auto making, and aerospace.
An affordability crisis exists:
Rising construction costs outpace our general economy, thus denying more individuals, businesses, and cultural institutions of quality and ownership.
Crisis is an opportunity or provocation for innovation.
Thus Re:Fab is driven to improve productivity of design and construction and address escalating costs and decline of quality in an ethical and aesthetically moving manner.
Through the consideration of innovation and well considered opportunities, both ‘product based’ and ‘client based’ design-build will serve responsibly with restraint and elegance.
METHODOLOGY:
Design cannot disassociate with how buildings are made;
Thus production thinking enters into the design thinking process.
Through the immersion in the reinvention of the practice and language of building design and delivery, Re:Fab delivers more beautiful, functional, and sustainable buildings more quickly at much higher value, quality, and with less waste by implementing:
1. A visualization process that employs manual and digital conceptualization and follows with digital methods throughout to include fabrication.
2. The development and incorporation of a refined design and building language that utilizes new integrated building elements and assemblies, offsite prefabrication, and site assembly, all while maintaining creative customization.
3. A constantly improving supply chain that identifies or creates new building elements and fabrication resources.
4. A conscious recruitment of and collaboration with like minded clients, owners, buyers, tenants, designers, consultants, system providers, and fabricators.
maximize life cycle. recycle. accommodate next life cycle. REPEAT.
RICH CIECIUCH
CEO + FOUNDER
New York native Rich Cieciuch (pronounced “che-chu”) is informed by expertise that spans building and landscape design, construction management, project director/client representation, furniture and interior design, and music. Rich has a proven track record of successfully delivering complex, highly aesthetic, energy efficient, and high quality projects. His work has taken him across the country, including New York City, Brooklyn, Washington DC, Maryland, California, Washington, Arizona, and Colorado.
Rich was born in New York City and raised in Oyster Bay, Long Island. A graduate of Bucknell University (Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with an emphasis on structural and architectural engineering) and the Urban Land Institute Real Estate Continuing Education Program (real estate finance)
Rich began his career as a structural engineer in Aspen, Colorado, working on notable residential, commercial, and bridge projects. In order to expand into real estate development and project management, Rich worked with The McArthur-Glen Group in Washington DC, managing the design and construction of retail outlet centers in Colorado, Maryland, and Washington State. After moving back to Colorado, Rich founded ProjectWorks in 1991 to provide owner consultancy in project management and later expanded the company, forming Project-Workshop, Inc. in 2002 to encompass design/build and construction management endeavors. The recent formation of Re:Fab, LLC further sharpens the focus of utilizing the integrated design build process to create buildings with digital fabrication techniques utilizing off site fabrication and on site assembly.
Throughout the years, the company has successfully completed a wide range of projects. Rich’s passion for excellent design and cutting-edge building technology goes hand in hand with his commitment to implementing environmentally responsible design and building techniques to create beautifully scaled, functional, and highly livable buildings. He brings a breadth of knowledge and formidable communication and interpersonal skills, as well as efficiency and professionalism, and he has demonstrated repeatedly his ability to build and lead highly competent project teams collaboratively toward a successful outcome.