Principals
Roy L. Rountree, AIA
Roy Rountree brings more than 20 years experience as an architect in Alaska and joins Bettisworth North as Project Architect and Manager of the firm's Anchorage office. Mr. Rountree is a well-organized and attentive professional whose genuine concern for meeting the client's needs is coupled with extensive experience in project management and construction. Born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, he has a great sensitivity towards the natural environment and a knowledge of Alaska's varying climates and their demands on materials and buildings as a whole. His experience throughout the state has resulted in projects which are culturally appropriate, climatically responsive, and provide exceptional value to the client.
Roy has overseen our firm's transition from 2d design to utilizing 3d Building Information Modeling (BIM) software, and fully understands the benefits this technology offers for the design team, owner, and contractor.
Roy's love of being in the outdoors brings him back to the banks of the Chitina river every year on his annual dipnetting expedition. While the office mourns his absence during this time, the atmosphere quickly changes to cheer when we are rewarded with jars of his famous smoked copper river red salmon!
Tracy A. Vanairsdale, AIA, LEED™AP
Born and raised in Fairbanks, Ms. Vanairsdale has a great love for Alaska and is dedicated to creating a better built environment through her career and volunteer work. Tracy joined Bettisworth North in 1997 and became a Principal in the firm in 2007. Her experience with commercial, educational and civic projects encompasses the full development of a successful design, from initial concept through construction administration. She believes that collaboration is essential to create a successful design solution, and enjoys working in the collaborative environment fostered at Bettisworth North. Her passion and team spirit has translated into her organization of and participation in Bettisworth North's women's soccer team for the past 10 years.
Tracy's goal is to surpass the client's expectations and provide the most creative, technically feasible, and energy efficient solution to their design challenges. Following her interest in the environment, she became one of the first few LEED accredited professionals within the state of Alaska through the United States Green Building Council in 2003.
Tracy has traveled extensively both inside and outside of the state, and has enjoyed being a part of a variety of projects, large and small, from Ketchikan to Nome. Her enthusiasm for team oriented design has assisted both private enterprise as well as non-profit companies all across the state, and emphasizes her belief that everyone benefits from the collaborative design process.
Charles B. Bettisworth, AIA
Charles Bettisworth founded the firm of Charles Bettisworth and Company in 1976 (Charles Bettisworth and Company became Bettisworth North in 2007). Mr. Bettisworth's lifelong love of Alaska runs deep and long, with strong family ties to the mining and native cultures of our recent history. CB has worked to create a design firm with a legacy of quality, innovation and positive client relationships. His professional career, spanning more than 40 years, has been devoted to the design of quality buildings which are sustainable for the long term within each unique climate of Alaska, while maximizing the use of day lighting and green building techniques to the extent possible.
Conformance to the specifics of project requirements, program, and careful attention to project budget and schedule are all hallmarks of Mr. Bettisworth's work and the work of the firm. Through his 40 years of regional, community, and site planning experience, along with award winning architectural design, Mr. Bettisworth has developed exceptional communication, facilitation, and mediation skills. His charisma and joy for the work he does has beneficially shaped not only the firm's office environment but also the working relationships formed with clients, contractors and consultants.
When not at the helm of the office you will find him behind the wheel of the S.S.Northern Explorer touring the endless coves of Southeast Alaska, complete with full crab pots and a bonfire on the beach.
Larry E. Kollmeyer, AIA
Larry Kollmeyer joined Bettisworth North in 1999, bringing with him 20 years of professional architectural experience, including 15 years as principal of his own firm. Mr. Kollmeyer is superbly competent in all facets of building technology, including building envelopes (windows and doors, siding, insulation, vapor control, and roofing systems). In addition, he has an exceptional familiarity with a variety of building structural and mechanical systems, building power, lighting, data, communications and alarm systems. With this experience, he brings to every project the knowledge and understanding necessary to effectively direct the design and coordination of these necessary building components.
Larry is attentive to detail while remaining cognizant of the overall scope and goals of the project. He has had experience with many types of construction procedures and over the last 12 years he has managed projects whose total value exceeds $250 million. His experience includes design/bid/build, as well as general contractor-construction manager (GC-CM), construction manager at risk (CM @ Risk), design assist, and design build, and construction contract procurement methods.
Larry's easy going and friendly manner makes him a gracious and outstanding host for our annual Bettisworth North backyard bbq where he shares his famous bbq ribs with a crowd of hungry co-workers.