Both a licensed general contractor and architect in California with more than 25 years’ experience in planning, design and construction, Robert Chattel’s unique qualifications include meeting the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards in architectural history and historic architecture. Robert has experience working for non-profit, government, and for-profit entities, including the Los Angeles Conservancy, the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles and a private real estate developer. In 1994, he established Chattel Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Inc., a Sherman Oaks-based historic preservation consulting firm. The firm works on design collaboration, environmental review and preservation policy projects in California and Nevada. As President, Robert specializes in applying the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties and interpreting federal, state and local historic preservation law and regulations. Robert and his firm have received awards from the California Preservation Foundation, Los Angeles Conservancy, American Planning Association and the City of Los Angeles for projects ranging from preservation of the Beverly Hills Waterworks (the subject of his master’s thesis), to stabilization of the Breed Street Shul in east Los Angeles and rehabilitation of the downtown Los Angeles Central Library. Robert holds a B.A. in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley and a M.S. in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. When not in the office, Robert can often be found in eBay cyberspace looking for rare and unusual items to add to one of his many collections; his paperweight collection is considered by many esteemed authorities to be among the San Fernando Valley’s finest.