Kim Cowman, PE, LEED AP, HFDP, leads engineering across LEO A DALY. She is an expert in mechanical design for buildings. Her insights have been featured in Engineering-News Record, and she has authored articles in Medical Construction & Design and Healthcare Design magazines. Kim serves on national committees for the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers. As national director of engineering, Kim is responsible for establishing and leading a common engineering design platform for LEO A DALY and growing our engineering practice across existing and new engineering centers. Her responsibilities include technical advancement, strategic planning, leadership and management.

Kim has been with LEO A DALY since 2002, and most recently managed our Omaha studio’s healthcare engineering team. Throughout her career, she has excelled at recruiting talent, demonstrated thought leadership through publishing and speaking engagements, fostered and developed client relationships for key opportunities and led integrated design teams on large, complex projects. She has led design of precision mechanical infrastructure for large healthcare complexes and hospitals as well as smaller rural healthcare centers.

Kim earned the 2019 Outstanding Alumni Award from the Durham School of Architectural Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and received the building industry 40 Under 40 award in 2018 from Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine.