Ware Malcomb, an award-winning international design firm, announced it has appointed Kate Lyle to a newly created leadership role called ‘practice leader’ for Industrial Cold & Food to further diversify business and support dedicated market-specific capabilities across the Americas.

“Elevating practice leaders represents a natural evolution of our overall leadership structure that strengthens our internal teams and further diversifies our business in these disciplines in all Ware Malcomb offices,” said Matt Brady, executive vice president. “Our practice leaders help our offices provide streamlined delivery of services and firmwide resources for these types of projects.”

Kate Lyle, practice leader, director, Industrial Cold & Food, based in Irvine, California, is an established thought leader for this highly innovative building sector.

Ware Malcomb is an industry leader in cold buildings, a unique and highly specialized sector that includes cold storage, food processing and production facilities, cold laboratories and cold medical and pharmaceutical facilities. 

About Ware Malcomb
Established in 1972, Ware Malcomb is a contemporary and expanding full-service design firm providing professional architecture, planning, interior design, civil engineering, branding and building measurement services to corporate, commercial/residential developer and public/institutional clients throughout the world. With office locations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, the firm specializes in the design of office, industrial, science & technology, healthcare, multifamily, retail, and public/institutional projects. Ware Malcomb is recognized as an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company and a Hot Firm by Zweig Group. The firm is also ranked among the top 15 architecture/engineering firms in Engineering News-Record’s Top 500 Design Firms and the top 25 interior design firms in Interior Design magazine’s Top 100 Giants.