Mason Ellis Joins The Leadership Greater Little Rock Class XXX

We are excited to announce that Mason Ellis, AIA, LEED AP has been selected to join the Leadership Greater Little Rock class. Since 1985, Leadership Greater Little Rock has graduated over 1,300 community leaders, including a future secretary of state, president pro tempore of the senate, Adjutant General of the Arkansas National Guard and two university presidents. Each year, around 50 class members are selected from hundreds of applicants to participate in the nine-month program. The class meets at a different Central Arkansas venue to explore topics through expert speakers, panelists, tours and group presentations.

Mason is a project architect at WER Architects, as well being a founding member of studioMAIN and President of the Bicycle Advocacy of Central Arkansans. He joined WER in 2006 to gain experience in all aspects of the design process with a special interest in WER’s restoration work. Mason has been a vital employee on the many teams that he has worked on involving both new construction, restoration and renovation.

He has had many opportunities to advance his level of experience with projects that involve both restoration and renovation of existing buildings and the design of new buildings within a contextural vocabulary involving significant historic buildings. Mason has been a vital component within WER to integrate Building Information Modeling (BIM) to the design and production process. In 2007 WER made the decision that all new projects in the office were to be produced in BIM. Mason was one of the first to receive training and then incorporate that training to establishing the BIM guidelines for the production staff. As a result 100% of the production staff at WER has now been trained in BIM.