“His insight and passion for the rapidly evolving landscape will drive growth and maximize the value of our integrated design solutions, delivering long-lasting benefits to our clients and communities,” McKay said.

Chow’s experience encompasses work in both nonprofit and private sectors. Prior to joining DLR Group, he was COO of CALSTART, a global non-profit focused on helping the United States and other countries transition to clean transportation technologies. At CALSTART, he led operational teams and optimized clean transportation initiatives across the organization’s matrix of activities and national/international geographies. Prior to CALSTART, he was instrumental in driving the growth of IBI Group’s transportation planning and engineering practice and held various senior leadership roles over a successful decades-long career at the global design firm.

Chow has led transportation and urban design projects across the Western United States, including the award-winning Civic Center Master Plan for the City of Los Angeles. This comprehensive master planning initiative aims to address the city’s facility needs, develop a new vision for the administrative heart of the city, and repair historic inequities in the area. He also led the planning and design of 11 light rail transit stations and station areas for the Foothill Gold Line Transit Light Rail Extension, connecting cities in California’s San Gabriel Valley to provide a faster, more reliable and convenient way to travel and improve access to job centers, educational institutions, and other destinations in the region.

“Transportation connects everything we do and is integral to DLR Group’s commitment to elevate the human experience through design,” Chow said. “I’m eager to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and partner with clients to build happier cities with innovative transportation design.”

DLR Group’s civic, infrastructure, and transportation design experience spans airport expansions and renovations, rail station design, ferry terminals, transit asset management reporting, parking garage studies and design, and other transit-oriented developments, in addition to energy infrastructure and energy management planning projects.

The design firm’s holistic approach to transit-oriented planning and design is showcased at Chinatown-Rose Pak Station, which balances the necessary functionality of a public transportation station with a thoughtful celebration of the unique culture of San Francisco’s Chinatown and green design strategies. Art by local artists creates a sense of place with meaningful ties to the neighborhood and its history. Reducing the need for artificial lighting, the transition from the street level into the station depths is modulated by a glass canopy that allows natural light to permeate below. Above the station, which DLR Group designed in collaboration with Parsons Brinckerhoff and Michael Willis Architects, a rooftop plaza features stadium seating and public art, reinforcing the station’s identity as a new community hub.