In 1999 his firm won the first Architecture for Humanity competition to design transitional housing for the Balkans. His current research includes sustainable materials for sheltering displaced people and the role of alternative organizational paradigms for traumatic urbanization planning. In 2009 he began working with the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation to develop a job training program and affordable homes made with compressed earth block. Following the 2010 Haitian earthquake, he began developing several projects that will provide employment opportunities and affordable shelter. He is currently a member of the USAID task force on post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction and member of the Fetzer Institute’s Inter-Generational Mentoring Community. Kimberly Jenkins