Founded in 2020, West Work is a certified Women Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) led by Katherine Faulkner, Nick Elton, and Bruce Hampton. Our talented team brings perspectives from various cultural and international backgrounds.

We are committed to delivering environmentally responsible design within budget, which is best facilitated by providing energy analysis and consulting services as part of our design process.

Also, as real estate development consultants, we work on a broader scale of the construction process. We assist property owners in unlocking the potential value of their assets through visioning, financial planning and procurement, and managing the entitlement process by directly interacting with community and government agencies to achieve the necessary zoning reliefs and building permits.

Katie Faulkner, FAIA, LEED AP has been working for twenty-five years on spaces and buildings for education, working, living, and healthcare. She received her MArch from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and an MBA from Boston University.

Before West Work, Katie was a Vice President of Design for Katerra, focusing on a mid-rise mass timber housing prototype. She was a founding partner of the firm NADAAA, recognized with notable awards, including the 2014 Holcim Award, an AIA COTE Award, and numerous other accolades. Before NADAAA, Katie was an Associate Principal at Shepley Bulfinch.

In 2017 she received the BSA’s Women in Design Award. In 2020 she was named to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.

Nick Elton, RA has been involved in housing, community, and commercial projects in the Boston and greater Massachusetts area for over 30 years. He received his Master of Architecture degree at M.I.T. in 1977, and pursued community-based design first as Conover-Elton & Associates, then began Elton & Associates in 1986, and merged into a partnership with Bruce Hampton in 2001. Nick has served as principal/project architect on over 90 mixed-income, affordable, elderly, and special needs housing development.

Bruce Hampton, AIA brings over 40 years of experience in quality single and multi-family residential construction, manufactured housing components, and energy-efficient design. Bruce has a proven record of reducing operating and maintenance costs without increasing first costs while delivering high-quality and durable products. All of his projects reflect his commitment to energy efficiency and high-quality workmanship within tight budgets and time constraints. Through a whole building approach, his particular stress is to address a full breadth of sustainable issues.

Minkoo Kang previously worked as a researcher in Moscow and as an architect at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, Doha, Hong Kong, and the New York office. He received his Master of Real Estate Development degree at MIT in 2019 and has been an active real estate developer based in Boston since. With more than ten years of experience in the built environment, both as a designer and developer, he brings his expertise to West Work as the Director of Design and Development, leading real estate development consulting projects. 

Elizabeth Hauver, CPHC is an architectural designer, certified passive house consultant, and Associate at Westworks. She has contributed design and energy/carbon analysis for a wide variety of single family and multi-family housing projects. With a strong sense of urgency to deliver a carbon neutral built environment, she is shepherding Westworks continued commitment to providing healthy, sustainable homes to challenged neighborhoods, and ensures that all projects meet the AIA 2030 Challenge carbon reduction goals. Liz received her Bachelor's and Master's of Architecture from Wentworth Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing a Master's in Natural Resource Stewardship & Ecological Restoration at Colorado State University, focusing on carbon reduction and sequestration in architecture and landscape restoration.