Chesney Floyd | Associate, Residential Practice Manager

Chesney provides direct oversight of all of WDA’s residential projects, preparing a strategy to achieve each of our client’s unique goals.  He meets weekly with the firm’s project managers to review milestones, discuss technical issues and provide quality control for completed drawings.  He also personally manages select high-end residential projects.

Chesney has worked extensively in the Bay Area, completing single family residences, additions, remodels and accessory structures from Marin to Palo Alto.  He has managed multi-unit projects, high-end condominium remodels and restorations of historic structures, shepherding projects through variances, Planning Commission hearings and public outreach and review processes.  Chesney has also worked on energy efficient and ‘net-zero’ homes, working to create seamless integration of sustainable technologies and WDA’s modern sensibility.

Chesney was raised in the unique setting of the Berkeley Hills surrounded by the distinctive regional homes and community plans of Maybeck, Wurster, John Galen Howard and Julia Morgan.  He studied English literature, printmaking and painting at the University of Virginia, returning to complete his Masters degree in Architecture at UC Berkeley.  Chesney has been recognized with awards for his work on several design competitions, including First Prize Honor Award for his proposal for the El Paso-Ciudad Juarez Bi-national Arts and Cultural District Design Competition in 2007.