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Ken Mohr appointed HERA President
HERA’s leadership torch is changing hands and ahead lies a bright future for the firm. We are pleased to announce the appointment of Principal Ken Mohr, Assoc. AIA, as President effective April 1. Hired as the firm’s first employee and laboratory planner 24 years ago, Ken’s long standing dedication is recognized as a contributing factor to HERA’s […]
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 architecture. […]
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, previously the owner 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, […]
Introducing HERA product design
Created to fulfill a gap in the current laboratory product marketplace, HERA designer Jinhee Lee, CDT has designed a new product: 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 […]
Laboratory Design: Elements and Evolution
Michele Pollio, AIA and Eva Baker, AIA, LEED AP BD+C will be among the speakers at next week’s Forum on Architecture + Design, presented by AIA Philadelphia. Their presentation, “Laboratory Design: Elements and Evolution” provides case studies to demonstrate the how laboratory design has evolved from purely practical environments into spaces that are both functional […]
Welcome to the team, Rainey!
We are thrilled to announced Rainey Hufstetler, AIA, LEED AP, has joined our Atlanta office as a lab planner/programmer. Rainey comes to HERA with more than 15 years of experience in high containment design. Over her career she has focused primarily on large academic and government biocontainment research facilities. Within containment, she is the go-to […]
HERA designs learning spaces at elementary school
As any student or teacher can tell you, learning happens inside the classroom and outside those four walls. Teaching comes from educators and from fellow students. Students make discoveries both when studying alone and while collaborating in a group. Wild Horse Elementary, a K-5 school in Chesterfield, recently received grant money for a small renovation. […]
Design begins on Animal Crime Forensics Center
Crime Lab Design – HERA’s forensic brand – in partnership with Scott Edwards Architecture, was selected to design a 5,000 SF new Animal Crime Forensics Center as part of an expansion of the Oregon Humane Society in Portland, OR. This accredited veterinary forensics lab will allow the Humane Society to help with criminal investigations of […]