The Foundation
Bill Parker
While building a career in the early 80's, Bill was always focused on the next project while designing, building and delivering the highest possible quality for his clients. This is what drove the client base to what it is today. Fast forward over 30 years, the focus is the same. Identify, design, deliver and close the deal. Strategic Planning and Business Development are the first steps to any successful organizations. Throughout his career in the Real Estate, development and building business and on to Consulting and Brokerage, the underlying principles are the same. Deliver Honesty, Integrity, Responsiveness and success will follow. In 2016, Bill had the idea to design homes from the ground up utilizing the highest possible efficiencies in the construction process while taking advantage of wind, solar, and energy storage technologies. Then make it a fully capable home that anyone could live in. He founded a new company specifically to do that, and Legend Development LLC was born. Designing a fully integrated hybrid home using an all-of-the-above energy strategy. Utility Grid, Solar and Vertical Wind Turbines. We have partnered with manufacturers in these disciplines to design, build, test and refine the home as we know it.
Matt Lewis
Matt Lewis is a director living in New York who works primarily in documentary film. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a bachelor of arts in Film Production with a focus in cinematography. Throughout college he spent his free time working with artists, musicians, and start-ups, creating video content for them, and he has continued his production work with artists and musicians through his startup business, Sound Flash Films, based in New York. He has worked as a co-writer and director of photography on a number of documentaries and narrative films, including some pieces featured in the Santa Barbara Fine Arts Film Festival and the Boston Latino International Film Festival. He has followed individuals and businesses, and has produced films showcasing their stories. Documenting reality as we find our way through it. He has partnered up with Bill to produce a documentary film capturing the process of realizing his visions of reinventing homes and communites with new convenience.
Hala Barakat
Hala Barakat is a graduate Architect in Tampa, Florida. After graduating in 2016 with an M.arch degree from the University of South Florida and practicing architecture in Orlando, she is currently working towards a second master’s degree in Urban & Community Design, serving as an adjunct professor at the School of Architecture at USF and practicing real estate. Bridging between Architecture and Real Estate, Hala is seeking the most efficient ways of designing and constructing spaces/buildings. Architecture is a huge part of a city’s urban/social fabric and to have the ability to combine and research the new technologies of wind, solar and energy to create a sustainable system and lifestyle is the foundation of her career. With her background in design, Hala is using architecture to better understand our world and give back to the community.
Joshua Jones is Design Director of Studio Zeren and will be a doctoral student at the University of Florida College of Design Construction and Planning in the fall of 2018. Following the receipt of a 2017 AIA Merit Award for Design, Joshua has been focusing on active non-profit design initiatives in Architecture and Urban Design. He is passionate about design research and advocates for process innovations within the built environment. With eight years of conceptual and schematic design experience in residential design-build, education, institutional, aviation, healthcare, commercial, corporate office, and government projects, he is accustomed to approaching design both comprehensively and collaboratively. Josh is well-versed in all aspects of architectural design from base building adaptive reuse and planning, programming and design, to contract documentation through administration. His drawing and graphic work has been featured by Morpholio for innovative use of digital drawings platforms in architectural process. He will be contributing the Legend Development project as a leading architectural designer, helping the team achieve greater efficiencies through design, and through new partnerships.
BE-WIND
In the spring of 2007, Mike Berdan and Tom Carbone took on a task to develop a new Small Wind System for the emerging small energy industry. The goal was to develop a prototype of a revolutionary new Vertical axis design, with aspirations to meet some very strong requirements, not yet seen in the small wind industry. Tom Carbone, bringing an extensive background from the wind energy sector, and Michael Berdan with extensive background in materials, design, and manufacturing for the aerospace industry eventually collaborated meet and design a product, not yet seen in the small wind industry.