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Posted on: 10/23/2003

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis-based Health Education + Research Associates (HERA), Inc. has expanded again with the addition of James Cartwright, AIA as associate and senior project architect. This is the third laboratory architect to join the seven-year-old firm this year bringing the firm's total staff to 15.

Cartwright's 20 years of experience with a focus in laboratories, vivaria, healthcare and specialized institutional projects contributes to HERA's niche as one of only a handful of design firms in the country specializing solely in laboratory programming, planning and design services.

Cartwright's recent work includes laboratory design for Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Mo.; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Genzyme Transgenics, Framingham, Mass.; and the renovation of and addition to Chemistry Department facilities at South Dakota State University, Brookings S.D. His vivarium design includes the Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and the Lee School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S.D.

In addition to his laboratory experience, Cartwright was the project architect for the highly acclaimed Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the St. Louis museum designed by the Japanese firm of Tadao Ando Architect & Associates.

HERA's current work includes the St. Louis Police Forensic Laboratory, St. Louis, Mo.; the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Mich.; the City of Phoenix Police Forensics Laboratory, Phoenix, Ariz.; and the Module F renovation for Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, N.J.

More than 75 clients and over 260 projects represent the individual and firm experience of HERA's staff. The firm has worked successfully with universities and academic medical centers; municipalities and government agencies; healthcare and pharmaceutical companies; and biotechnology and consumer products organizations. HERA's mission is to enhance scientific discovery and client productivity through the design of optimal laboratory environments

Source: HERA, Inc.