As Senior Director of Sustainability and Regenerative Design, Doran supports Principals and Designers to embed performance & provenance objectives into all MASS projects, as well leading climate-focused research and the training of our entire team.
Previously, Doran led MASS’s' Kigali office overseeing the growth of the practice from a team of 8 to 80 over a five-year period. He led the design and implementation of several of MASS’s projects across East Africa, notably the award-winning Munini District Hospital and Rwanda Ministry of Health’s Typical Hospital Plans; Nyarugenge District Hospital, headquarters for both One Acre Fund and Andela in Kenya; and the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture.
Doran holds a professorship at the University of Toronto, where his Ha/f Research Studio is focused on the whole life carbon of the built environment. The outcomes of this research has informed the ongoing development of embodied carbon policy for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.