Jonas Hviid Mønster
Partner, Head Business and Process Development, Alex Poulsen Architects, Denmark
Since 2016, Jonas has been a partner and CEO at Alex Poulsen Architects.
He leads and coordinates the studio’s portfolio of tasks, which includes tasks in connection with ongoing framework agreements and tasks for public authorities as well as for private builders. Jonas is usually found at the helm of the good cooperation between the client, users, advisers, and other parties – which is highly valued at the design studio. As an experienced client advisor and building consultant, on several complex projects with a high degree of user involvement and stakeholder management, Jonas finds his primary strengths in facilitating user involvement processes, preparing specifications of requirements, developing early-stage planning and scrutinize tender processes. In his work, Jonas ensures high quality, an open and accessible process, and the feeling of ownership across a project's stakeholders.
Depending on which role and context Jonas is part of in the building process, he has the ability to adapt his work from dealing with overall and strategic questions on one hand, and to maintaining specific technical solutions on the other – this all facilitated by his professional background as a constructing architect.
Jonas has furthermore experience in conducting market analyses for public developers, including in collaboration with the Danish Economic and Financial Services Authority. The aim of the market analysis has been to uncover the market's reaction to price and quality levels, to identify the most advantageous form of contract on specific task types.
As the secondary speaker of this session, Jonas will contribute with in-depth knowledge and applied practice of both sustainable planning and humane correction facilities – in relation to innovation in the built environment of prison infrastructure.
