About Us

Passionate about non-trivial design and high-end engineering, Alexey strives to blend architecture and structural engineering with the latest advancements in software to streamline the design process and achieve outstanding results on a daily basis.

Born in the major Russian industrial city of Chelyabinsk, Alexey made the most of a strong engineering school and developed a different effective mindset. Alexey holds a degree in civil and industrial engineering from South Ural State University. He has extensive professional experience with world renowned engineering companies, working on a plethora of complex international projects.

Currently he resides in New York, spending his time listening to music, following new technologies, and exploring the world.

Daniel was born & raised in Düsseldorf, Germany but grew up with a diverse background from the Polish mountains. Initially, he studied mechanical engineering in Germany, but after moving to New York, shifted to studies in accounting at Queens College & St. John's University, and received Bachelors and Masters degrees. He was interested in the architectural work done by LaufsED, and now assists as controller to manage revenues cycles and lucrative projects.

Outside of work, he is incredibly passionate about both playing and watching basketball, and played in the semi-pro level for SC Düsseldorf and SC Bayer before coming to the states. Besides basketball, he is fascinated by other cultures and countries, especially their languages and traditions, so he enjoys the diversity of New York. But he still loves to travel when he can.

I come from Zaragoza, Spain, where I studied Architecture. My training continued in Istanbul, Sydney and finished in Madrid, where I completed my Masters in ETSAM.

The power of utopian thinking motivates me, and my interests focus on how far architecture can reach when it is thoroughly engineered. I believe in technology as a key to achieving bigger goals.

I have carried projects in Spain, Senegal, Turkey and Germany that range from design of residential buildings, architecture competitions, construction management and international cooperation.

Some good friends brought me to Berlin a few years ago, the city did the rest. Music, biking and crafting fill my spare time.

Ironically, Emily was terrified of bridges and tall structures as a child. She found the structures beautiful, though, and developed desperate need to understand how they managed to stay upright.

Emily completed both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Civil Engineering with a Structural Engineering focus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She participated in RPI’s acclaimed Bedford program where she gained first-hand knowledge of architectural practices to better understand the integration structural engineering designs.

Emily has provided structural services for a number of industries including utilities, nuclear structures, and both commercial and residential construction and renovation. Her varied experiences have exposed her to a wide berth of engineering challenges and given her experience using niche skill sets.

In her free time, Emily enjoys dancing, playing piano, and hanging out with her dog – Milo. She is an avid Philadelphia sports fan, and during the spring and summer attends as many Phillies games as possible. She is no longer afraid of bridges or buildings.

After receiving her degree as an occupational therapist from the University of Applied Sciences in Tyrol, Austria, Eva left her hometown Innsbruck for Berlin. There she worked in a variety of medical units including pediatrics, neurology, and forensics to name a few.

Several years later, Eva graduated as an actress from “Starter - Berliner Schauspielschule für Film und Fernsehen”. She soon won a contract with a well-known modeling and talent agency in Germany, working as an international model in the fashion, commercial, and lifestyle industry.

Today, Eva manages LED’s office in Berlin and the day-to-day activities. She lives between Berlin and New York and is pursuing a postgraduate course in social media studies and journalism at the FJS-Berlin. She intends to pursue a career in a creative context afterwards.

Manavendra “Manu” Mulye was born and raised in Mumbai, India. Much like New York City, Mumbai is a fast-paced city with a booming real-estate market. Manu dreams of contributing towards the rising tall (and super-tall) building construction with a strong emphasis on sustainable design and green construction.

Manu completed his bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from the University of Mumbai and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University.

As a young engineer, Manu is constantly learning from new methodologies for structural design. His work mostly focuses on the design of rain-screen and curtain-wall systems, facade engineering, and renovations.

Manu is an avid fan of soccer and heavily supports Manchester United F.C. In his free time he loves to play harmonica and study coins.

Max is originally from New Zealand and is an International Professional Engineer (IntPE(NZ)) in both the fields of mechanical engineering and lightweight structural engineering. He has years of industry experience designing secondary structural building elements to code, whilst working with designers and architects to ensure their aesthetic vision is achieved. Passionate about 3D FEM modelling, he is always looking for new technology driven solutions.

Relatively new to Berlin, Max enjoys exploring the vast cultures of the European Continent in his spare time and seeing how the other side of the world operates.

Qian has been strongly aided by his lifetime passion of the arts, where he has been trained in all types of artistry; hand drawing, modeling, digital, 3D fabrication. He has been lucky enough to experienced a multitude of design philosophies from educations at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ecole Nationale Superieure d’architecture de Versailles, and The University of Pennsylvania.

Professionally, in the last 10 years, Qian has been introduced to a high variety of work from; strenuous design work by highly awarded firms all the way to the unforgiving technical standards of engineers. This has helped mold Qian into a designer that is highly articulate in both design and technical standards. His focus is on achieving great work with colleagues that truly treasure both design and technical skills.

He enjoys working on custom figures + aquariums at home and an avid Boston sports fan. Go Patriots!

Robert is an accountant and office manager with experience in financial reporting of large and small businesses. He comes from a background of public accounting in the real estate field, his choice to focus on this field grew out of previous experience as an urban planner in suburban Washington DC area. He has an MBA and a MS in Accounting from St. John’s University, NY and a BS in Urban Geography and Computer Science from University of Maryland.

A common thread throughout his career is the built environment and accounting. Now at LaufsED the focus is on business operations, financial reporting, modelling and projections. There he can utilize his knowledge of accounting and operations management as a tool to improve profitability.

In his free time, Robert is passionate about photography, music and the outdoors. With extensive time spent in the West and Intermountain West exploring deep in the backcountry, taking pictures, and listening to music while hiking in between.

Sang has worked as a facade designer internationally for over seven years, including the United States, Germany, and South Korea. Sang’s experience extends from small residential projects focusing on full-scale detailing, to multi-tower complexes with difficult geometries. As a facade specialist she’s designed: unitized facades, metal framed stick-system facades, and panel cladding facades. Furthermore, she’s worked on specialty facades from a cable-net facade for the Museum of the Built Environment in Saudia Arabia: to a double curved facade featured on the Baku Residential Complex in Azerbaijan: to a unitized facade for the Hyatt Frankfurt competition in Germany: not to mention many others.

She holds a Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, and a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering from Kyungbook National University in South Korea.

Sang resides in New York City, pursuing in her spare time her passion for Asian cuisine, learning the German language, and traveling abroad.