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HPU in the news
High Point University’s Wanek School of Natural Sciences is making headlines for its ability to help the university support student population growth, enable research, help recruitment and encourage experiential learning. Designed to de-silo departments and foster a truly interdisciplinary approach to learning, offices for biology, chemistry and physics professors are intermingled throughout the building, encouraging […]
HPU in the news
High Point University’s Wanek School of Natural Sciences is making headlines for its ability to help the university support student population growth, enable research, help recruitment and encourage experiential learning. Designed to de-silo departments and foster a truly interdisciplinary approach to learning, offices for biology, chemistry and physics professors are intermingled throughout the building, encouraging […]
Barbara Spitz, AIA, is retiring
After a remarkable 15-year career at HERA laboratory planners, Principal Barbara Spitz, AIA, is beginning the transition to the next phase of her life. Starting in 2020 she will slowly wind down her career, moving to part time starting on January 1 and officially retiring on March 31. Barbara has been a force at HERA […]
This Fellow is an exceptional woman
Exceptional. That is what HERA laboratory planners thinks of Lab Architect Monica Moore-Žigo, AIA. Monica is not only an alumna of Washington University in St. Louis, but she is also a Fellow of The Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellowship Program. This cross-disciplinary fellowship program was founded in 1974 by the Monticello College Foundation […]
We’re growing…quickly
HERA has been named by the St. Louis Business Journal as one of the fastest-growing companies in the region. The publication announced its list of the top 50 fastest-growing companies in St. Louis. The exact rankings will be announced Oct 10, but we’re thrilled to be in excellent company. Read the full story here. And […]
A partner with a future
HERA again participated this summer in the Rockwood School District’s Partners in Education Project Interface program, which partners students with business professionals in the students area of interest to shadow the summer before their senior year. Haley Meyer, a rising senior at Marquette High School, partnered with HERA to learn about lab design and the […]
Introducing HERA’s newest venture: Conceptual engineering
We have turned a new page at HERA. Over the past 22 years, we have provided laboratory programming, planning and design services, guiding lab projects from an architectural perspective and sometimes teaching a thing or two about engineering along the way. This month, HERA will begin offering conceptual engineering services to further enhance our lab planning […]
2019 Summer Schedule
As a benefit to our employees, HERA is continuing our 16-week summer schedule program for 2019. The 16-week program begins on Monday, May 13 and runs through Friday, August 30. Our offices will be closed on the following Fridays and holidays: Friday, May 24 Monday, May 27 (Memorial Day) Friday, June 7 Friday, June 21 […]
A fitting wrap-up to a remarkable project
LS3P, our architectural partner on the Renewable Water Resources Laboratory & Environmental Education Center, created a beautiful e-book as a wrap-up to this remarkable project. The new 17,700-sf laboratory houses a water quality testing program that renews approximately 42 million gallons of wastewater a day. To put that in perspective, that’s equal to 2.4 million […]
HERA’s westward expansion
We are pleased to announce that Glen Berry, AIA, NCARB of Design for Science has joined HERA laboratory planners as a senior laboratory architect. Glen brings with him 30+ years of experience as a laboratory planning consultant. His diverse portfolio spans more than eight million square feet of higher education, forensic, government, R&D and clinical […]
Introducing: HERA product design
Created to fulfill a gap in the current laboratory product marketplace, HERA designer Jinhee Lee, CDT has designed a single-piece, universal drawer pull. Inspired by our work with Worrell Design Group at the Grande Cheese Home Office and Research Center project, HERA laboratory planners reimagined a kitchen cabinet pull into a Universal Design laboratory cabinet […]