The firm is again participating in the Partners in Education (PIE) summer internship program sponsored by the Rockwood School District in St. Louis. The program connects professionals with high school students interested in exploring those career fields. In our nine years of involvement, HERA's staff have mentored budding lab planners, architects and engineers. HERA has [...]
Continue ReadingQ&A with Senior Operations Manager Greg Zipfel, AIA, CSI CDT What are your responsibilities on the Crestwood (Missouri) Planning, Zoning & Architectural Review Commission? Let me start by saying that my wife and I are both proud, long-time residents of Crestwood – both born and raised here, now raising our family here, and we plan [...]
The Logan University Fuhr Science Center has been awarded as a 2025 Learning by Design Outstanding Project! The 47,100-sf renovation and addition adds state-of-the-art anatomy laboratories and dissection amphitheaters and accommodates programmatic shifts, pedagogical changes, a growing need for STEM space and new technology.Check out all the winners, or skip to page 112 for more [...]
Cree LED's new R&D headquarters at Park Point in Research Triangle Park has been honored with the 2025 Triangle Business Journal Space Award for Top Interior/Space Build-Out Project.HERA provided lab planning and design and equipment planning for this 90,000-square-foot facility, part of a larger adaptive-reuse redevelopment transforming Park Point into a hub for innovation. The [...]
Q&A with Senior Laboratory Architect Natalie Szymanski You’ve been a mentor and teacher on so many different levels. Talk about some of the mentoring work you’re currently doing. Through the AIA Toledo, I know several architects that I either grew up with or reconnected with after college. Together we decided that there was a lack [...]