Sophie Pennetier

Associate Director - Special Projects at Enclos

Biography

Sophie holds 15 years of experience in the design of complex structures and facades. She joined Enclos in 2018, where she has steered various projects’ specialty facades scope sales and design assist efforts, engaged in prototyping, modular curtainwall systems, and various research topics such as ultra-thin glass, facades acoustical analysis and sustainability. Prior to joining Enclos in Los Angeles, Sophie worked as a Structural Engineer with Arup NY, SHoP Construction and RFR in Paris. In 2010 through the industry-academia partnership IAPP ARC she developed cold bent glass numerical analysis tools. Sophie authored several research papers on structural glass and has been involved in the development of US structural glass codes with ASTM, the Journal of Architectural Engineering as an Associate Editor, and the Facades Tectonics Institute where she has served as a Paper Reviewer, in the 2020 Congress Organizing Committee and Special Advisory Council.