Bruce Redman Becker is president of Becker + Becker, an integrated sustainable architecture and development firm based in Westport, Connecticut.
Bruce’s firm plans, designs and implements development projects that have a social and environmental value, rebuilding and strengthening communities to help revitalize cities. The firm completed the LEED Platinum, 285-unit, net-zero energy transit-oriented development (TOD), 777 Main, in downtown Hartford as well as the LEED Platinum 500-unit, 32-story, 360 State Street project in New Haven, which incorporates the 1st fuel cell in the world to power an apartment building. Becker + Becker was also responsible for the adaptive re-use of the Wauregan Hotel in Norwich, CT, as well as the Octagon on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan. The firm recently completed the adaptive re-use and preservation of the iconic Pirelli building in New Haven. Originally designed by Marcel Breuer, the former office building has been transformed into Hotel Marcel - a 165 room boutique hotel and conference center. The hotel is one of only ten LEED Platinum certified hotels in the United States and is anticipated to be the first
Passive House certified and net zero-energy hotel in the U.S.
Bruce graduated from Amherst College and received MBA and Master of Architecture degrees from Yale.