Community Design Services and eMi are hosting a joint meeting to highlight two recent design projects (one local and one global), facilitate a meet-and-greet amongst DFW-based design professionals, and share about volunteer opportunities within both organizations. An eMi representative, Brittany Meloni, is visiting from Colorado and will be sharing about her experience on a design project in Senegal. And Michael Westfall, founder of Community Design Services (CDS), will share about a recent CDS project for local Dallas-based nonprofit Bonton Farms. Please join!
Introducing eMi:
At eMi, we desire to see people restored by God and the world restored through design. With core values of design, discipleship, and diversity, intentionality is part of our DNA. We provide design services throughout the developing world to empower local ministries to better serve their communites and share the Gospel.
Introducing CDS:
We see the need for design services to assist and enhance community development done locally, and we consider the opportunity we have to use our design expertise to address these needs to be both unique and rewarding. To this end, we create project teams of volunteer design professionals (engineers, architects, surveyors, and others) to provide reduced-price design services to DFW nonprofits and other faith-based organizations. Some of the services we provide include:
· Holistic site planning
· Conceptual design
· Permitting and rezoning
· Engineered drawings
· Sealed plan sets for construction
Michael graduated with a degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University and is a licensed professional civil engineer (P.E.) with fifteen years of industry experience. He is the president of Westfall Engineering, a registered civil engineering firm that specializes in land development and project management. After struggling for years to find a way to serve local projects with his engineering expertise, Michael founded Community Design Services in 2015 to provide a way for design professionals to serve local faith-based organizations and other nonprofits.
Brittany graduated from the University of Texas Tyler with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering. After graduation, she worked as a civil engineer both internationally in Cairo, Egypt as well as for AECOM out of San Antonio, focusing on water resources and land development. For the last four years Brittany has served eMi as the US intern manager, with job responsibilities of recruiting, training, and mobilizing engineering and architecture interns to our 10 offices worldwide.
